Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Kingsbury

My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.

Karen Kingsbury

Real love never fails.

Karen Kingsbury

Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be, and know that your purpose will always be best when defined by your faith in him

Karen Russell

America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.

Karen Russell

I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.

Karen Russell

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

Justin Smiley

I knew it wasn't good when it happened. It's definitely scary. Every now and then, something brings you back to reality.

Justin Sane

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

Judy Chicago

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

Judy Blume

My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.

Judy Blume

[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Josh McDermitt

Thankfully, I don't have a real mullet.

Josh Schwartz

Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

Josh Peck

Sometimes I don't want to go out and socialize; I just want to watch my favorite shows and comedians. But then I have to remember that it is important to participate in life if you want to portray real life on screen.

Josh Radnor

A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.

Josh Radnor

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

Joseph Conrad

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

Joseph Conrad

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Josh Sugarmann

The word 'hate' is a very carefully chosen word. There's got to be a real sense of revulsion and disgust. People are looking for someone to blame, someone who's the cause of their problems, and it should be the gun industry. These guys are the living embodiment of the slogan, 'Guns don't kill people-people kill people'. They're complete mercenaries.

Joshua Bell

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

Joshua Ferris

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

Joshua Homme

All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place.

Joshua Homme

Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.

Joshua Harris

If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.

Josh Turner

The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.

Joseph Butler

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

Joseph de Maistre

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Kate Mosse

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

Kate Morton

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.