Be Real Quotes

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.

We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.

They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.

I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.

I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

Are you currently at your house?" he asked. "Um, no," I said. "That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently at your house.

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is

We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.

The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

I'm not a particularly religious person, but that feeling of getting transmissions from someplace else, even if it's from your own consciousness, is very, very real. To me, at least.

As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music.

You're good, you're real good.

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people. . . . For an individual to claim personal responsibility was the height of arrogance.

We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.

Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.

Being [in] a show that you get to say good-bye instead of being asked to leave is a real honor.

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

Quite honestly, ... there's never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That's all real, no (computer trickery).

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me.

Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.

We are Americans first, Americans last, Americans always... Let us argue our differences. But remember we are not enemies, but comrades in a war against a real enemy...

No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.

In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.

Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?

Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings.

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.

All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.