Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Weinberg

This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. It is always hard to realize that these numbers and equations we play with at our desks have something to do with the real world. Even worse, there often seems to be a general agreement that certain phenomena are just not fit subjects for respectable theoretical and experimental effort.

Stevie Nicks

We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.

Robert Browning

My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality.

Robbie Savage

He needs to get a hard slap of reality in the face every once in a while. He has an arrogant side.

Robbie Fowler

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

Rigoberta Menchu

... together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.

Rider Strong

There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.

Ridley Scott

You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless.

Ricky Williams

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

Ricky Williams

The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life.

Richard Shepard

I'm not making a movie about the real people. I'm making a movie about what they did, and what happened to them. But I will create characters so that I can have the freedom to make them say and do what I want. The real-life journalists were fine with that.

Richard Serra

If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing the sculpture to a different scale for the purposes of consumption, but you're denying the real content of the work.

Richard Stallman

The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!

Richard Stallman

It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of. It helps more people, too.

Richard Stallman

So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.

Richard Simmons

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity.

Richard Simmons

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.

Richard Simmons

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

Richard Norton Smith

David Pietrusza has a gift for making the past both real and dramatically gripping.

Richard Ney

With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.

Richard Helms

The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.

Richard Grossman

I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now.

Richard Harris

The reality was that Warner wasn't there. If there were two people or 20 people identifying him, they were wrong.

Richard Hell

You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what you are best suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus.

Richard Hamming

The real problem is what can man and machine do together and not in competition.

Richard Hammond

Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself

Richard Armitage

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

Raymond Carver

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

Samora Machel

Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

Samuel Alexander

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

Samuel Adams

The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it. While on the other hand, if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, though the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves.

Tariq Ramadan

Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.