Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerry Cooney

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

Gerry Rafferty

This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.

Georgette Mosbacher

It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.

Georgette Mosbacher

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.

Harry Crews

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

Harry Chapin

Reality is only just a word.

Harry Chapin

You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.

Harry Chapin

And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But in real life I'm stuck with that same old formula, me and my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

Harry Browne

The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit of all. And it does so without intruding upon our desires, our privacy, or our freedom. It is regulation by reality, not by coercion.

Harold Nicholas

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

Harold Larwood

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

Harold H. Greene

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

Harold H. Greene

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

Harold Evans

I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that was the thing that would happen in the future, someone phoning in what they were seeing on the scene. Whether it's the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Drudge Report or the BBC, all those reports, you have to assume there's a real person [who] has credibility.

Gwen John

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

Gwen Ifill

We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years

Gwen Ifill

It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

Gwendolyn Brooks

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

Gwen Stefani

I had done the No Doubt record Push and Shove, and that was a real challenge for me: I think after the giving birth twice, going on multiple tours, all the stuff that I had done, I really got quite burned out after that.

Gwyneth Paltrow

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Jessica Seinfeld made a toast. She turned to the assembled guests. 'And you are all so lucky to be part of Gwyneth's world. Because this is the real deal. And she's invited all of you good people in here. I would never do that.'

Gregg Allman

Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.

Gregg Allman

It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies...

Gregg Easterbrook

Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

He sound more subdued than triumphant, more realistic than grandiose.

Jeff Francoeur

I don't think I'll realize what's going on until after the season, ... Then I can sit back and look at it and say, 'Wow, what a ride it's been.'

Jeff Nelson

I never realized how much I would get. But it's good. One day it will stop and you won't get anything.

In the end, we realized we had to go with our gut,

Wolfgang Petersen

In reality, I think there aren't really such things as "bad guys" and "good guys.

I just realized I can't be Brett Hull at 30 or 25, ... I was Brett Hull at 41.

Dar Williams

I realized I was writing a lot of songs about interconnectedness,

Justine Bateman

I realized I was an anorexic, a bulimic, and a compulsive overeater.