What Is Real Quotes

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

He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.

Real sacrifice comes from self sacrifice.

When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

Cursing herself, she said, "I'm going to man up here. I'm going to so be twenty-one. You're not going to believe how tight in the head I'm going to be. Really. For real.

G'on now.' he murmured with that Southern drawl. 'Lie on back and let me take care of you. I promise to go slow...real slow.' - Issac Rothe, Crave

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.

I look for good directors mainly because if you do enough of movies where there's not a real creative vision behind it, you start to turn into a robot and you want to jump off a bridge.

As for real chicken soup, I have it once or twice a week.

What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

A real racehorse should have a head like a lady and the behind like a cook.

There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home'.

Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.

There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.

The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences formed a line of discrimination.

It's a real stumper to sit around and try to think in your own head, but when you go into somebody else's head that takes the foot off the breaks. You can think in someone else's head.

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

You take for granted the details that make something look real. It can still look fabulous, but if you add a light switch, a vent, or the notion of air conditioning, it can look real.

In New York, it's a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there's a real appreciation for traditional style. Out here, it's casual, fresh, new, and almost humble.

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real.

It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Meeting external deadlines is much harder than meeting internal ones. On the other hand, internal deadlines sometimes don't feel real, and are therefore easy to evade.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline.