Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Thompson Walker

I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.

Karen Walker

The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself.

Karen Traviss

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

Julia Sweeney

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

Julian Casablancas

When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks.

Julian Baggini

Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition

Julian Baggini

Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. . . . William's book combines real history and fictional constructs to tell a revealing story that makes us reconsider the meaning of familiar concepts.

Julian Baggini

Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.

Julian Baggini

The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

Julian Assange

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

Julian Assange

Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who's having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material.

Julian Assange

Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

Julian Assange

I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.

Julian Barnes

Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain.

Ken Ham

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.

Ken Kesey

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys...

Ken Kesey

To hell with facts! We need stories.

Ken Kesey

But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Keith Urban

The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.

Keith Richards

To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.

Donald Rumsfeld

does not reflect the strategic realities of today.

Christine Gregoire

It's completely within the realm of possibility that what they need is hospitalization,

Chris Miller

It's a mess. I didn't realize it was this bad.

It's something that's a reality, and we're going to respond to it.

It's still a possibility we're going to have some reduction in services, ... The reality is that we have more services than are mandated, a lot more.

Andy Pettitte

It's special. You work all year to make it reality and get to the playoffs.

James Hall

It was more stressful for my mom, but it was a stressful situation for me, on top of a more stressful situation here. Not to use that as an excuse, but that was just the reality of it.

Steve Jobs

Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped!

David Eckstein

It's just a whole different realm of a leadoff man. You've got to be patient.

Bob Denver

It was the mid-'70s when I realized it wasn't going off the air,

This is what we train for, ... However, it's going to be sad once we're there and see the reality of it all.

They realize they have to be executing. It's not just about a Web site.

Eric Williams

You take it for granted, ... When it's taken away from you, you realize that just being here is a blessing.