Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

H. L. Mencken

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

H. L. Mencken

The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.

H. L. Mencken

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

It's not often that you get a chance in one role to do the glamour bit and then strip off all the makeup and reveal the real person beneath the façade. Usually, it's either a glamorous role or a raw, emotional role.

Guillaume Apollinaire

In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections.

Guillermo del Toro

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…

Guillermo del Toro

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film...

Guillermo del Toro

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

Greg James

'm starting to get a swimming physique, which I'm very pleased about, because for me that's the most appealing male physique. It's not show-y off-y Mr Muscle, "Look how much I can bench." It's just a real lean, athletic figure and it doesn't look like you try too hard. When you see people who have huge biceps, it looks like they're in the gym all day. But I think there's a difference between looking muscly and being fit.

Greg Kinnear

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

Greg Kinnear

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

Greg Kinnear

'Little Miss Sunshine' was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for. It's usually found in small pockets. But, it ended up getting a real following and worked out pretty well.

Grace Helbig

I feel like I have no real solid plans like, "this is what I'm going to do and I will do it by 2017" or whatever.

Grace Helbig

I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives.

Grace Helbig

The Internet is a very intimate entertainment experience. I'm in my own apartment talking to people, and I want them to feel like they're with me in my apartment. So if I'm listening to them and taking ideas from them and being honest with how I'm feeling, it resonates even more that we're having a real, actual conversation.

The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.

Grace Kelly

Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality

Grace Jones

I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

Grace Paley

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.

Grace Paley

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

J. R. Moehringer

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

J. Reuben Clark

The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and receivers, rescuing all that is finest down deep inside of them, and bringing to flower and fruitage the latent richness of the Spirit, which, after all, is the mission and purpose and reason for being of this Church.

Ja Rule

Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.

Ja Rule

It's always good to be working.

Ja Rule

When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.

Ja Rule

I ain't done nothing wrong, but love thy self. And harm other niggaz that wanna stop my health.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.

H. P. Lovecraft

One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.

H. P. Lovecraft

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

H. P. Lovecraft

No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.

H. P. Lovecraft

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

H. P. Lovecraft

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal