Real Quotes
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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
Marguerite Young
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When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real genuine purpose for it.
Claire Patricia Grogan Altered Images
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We've had all the ebbs and flows of any real career. Trust me. We've been at the highest highs and pretty low lows. But that said, we always stay true to who we were. We didn't jump on fads and fashions.
Jon Bon Jovi
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Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'
John Knoll
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I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
Paul Wellstone
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One of the greatest investments of our lifetime has been New York City real estate, and investors made the highest returns when they bought stuff during the 1970s and 1980s when people were getting mugged. The lesson is that you make the most money when you buy stuff that's out of consensus.
Mary Meeker
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We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
Alfred Newman
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There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency, It is organic with a lot of anticipation and you can hear it, the way it is played. My favorite bands that I love from way back have a lot of things going on and it makes it real, it is not tangible but it is the spirit of the moment.
Marco Mendoza Black Star Riders
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At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.
Alexandra Petri
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She is a brittle, relentless manipulator with few stable core values who shuffles through useful personalities like a card shark ('Cue the tears!'). Forget all her little gold crosses: Hillary's real god is political expediency. Do Americans truly want this hard-bitten Machiavellian back in the White House? Day one will just be more of the same.
Camille Paglia
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I always said that there's a real risk to having 50 different enforcement entities.
Eliot Spitzer
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Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.
Charlie Cox
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The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.
Li Bingbing
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I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.
Gabrielle Hamilton
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Refrain from the violence of fist, tongue or heart. And heart is real important.
Alveda King
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When people want to see your film, you're over the moon because you've actually made real contact. That's something very special.
Charlotte Rampling
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Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.
Gail Tsukiyama
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That's why I've always loved country music. Whether it's sad, pumps you up, or it's breakup songs, it's all real-life things.
Cole Swindell
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French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
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Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.
Jerry Ferrara
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I know what feeling broke feels like real well. I know that real well.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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Governor Romney is a real hardliner on illegal immigration.
Mario Diaz-Balart
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I hope to become a real striker.
Antoine Griezmann
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When prices are stable, people can hold money for transactions and other purposes without having to worry that inflation will eat away at the real value of their money balances.
Ben Bernanke