Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dogen

What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

Burt Shavitz

I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.

Eduardo Galeano

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

Edna Ferber

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.

Brian O'Driscoll

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.

Claude McKay

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Clark Gregg

With the tone of the show, like a lot of the films, the Marvel creative team has found a way to bridge really exciting stuff that has real stakes. They balance some of the action stuff that the fans of the comics really want to see with characters that people can relate to and who are very human.

Clarence Thomas

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

Clarence Thomas

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

Clea Duvall

I’m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I’m happy. Not sad. I’m just shy and nervous.

Colin Angle

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

Colin Firth

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

Cliff Burton

As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.

Clement Attlee

The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one's friends but of one's enemies.

Claude Monet

The real subject of every painting is light.

Dante Alighieri

The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

Dan Scanlon

There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

Dan Quisenberry

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

Dan Simmons

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

Dan Simmons

...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world'...

Dan Simmons

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

Dan Simmons

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

Dan Quayle

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

Dan Quayle

Pakistan always seems to have a lot of political complexities and political challenges. But Pakistan is important for a number of reasons. Primarily, it is a nuclear power. And if, in fact, al Qaeda and Taliban, which are in Pakistan and causing a lot of tragedies and deaths in Pakistan - if they would ever somehow have real influence and control of that government, then we [world] really have a problem.

Dan Eldon

Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they’re always strangely drawn back… because there’s nothing that can compare to seeing the raw reality of the basic human need for survival. It disgusts and inspires

Dan Fogelberg

Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.

Dan Fogelberg

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

Cynthia Weil

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

Cynthia Ozick

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

Cynthia Ozick

In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.

Cyril Connolly

A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.

Cyril Connolly

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.