Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Morton

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

Kate Morton

In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.

Kate Moss

I always have a pair of Ray-Bans in my bag and lots of pairs at home because they seem to go missing. They're a real staple.

Kate Moss

There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

Kasey Kahne

I never even thought the sophomore slump existed. You hear the saying, but you never thought it was for real or anything. But that's kind of what happened to us last year, and I don't know really why that is.

Justin Halpern

The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of.

Leonard Cohen

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

Leonard Cohen

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Leonard Cohen

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Leila Janah

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Leland Stanford

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

Leighton Meester

In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair.

Leighton Meester

When I don't have to be at work, I want to be the real me - the comfortable me!

Lawrence Summers

With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.

Laz Alonso

You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.

Lawrence Wright

Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent supposed to hoard their money. They are supposed to spend it on goods and services for the faithful. Under this pretense, the church has made massive investments in tax free real estate all over the world. And when it comes to labor costs, they are almost free.

Lawrence Wright

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Lawrence Welk

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

Layne Staley

I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.

Layne Staley

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

Lauren Beukes

Only other people can make you feel real.

Lauren Beukes

It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.

Laura Wade

I don't like writing with real people in mind.

Lauren Bacall

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.

Lauren Bacall

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

Lauren Bacall

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

Laurell K. Hamilton

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

Laurell K. Hamilton

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people

Laurell K. Hamilton

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

Laurell K. Hamilton

[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

Laurell K. Hamilton

He looked less handsome without the smile and glow in his eyes, but he also seemed more real. Being real will get me into trouble faster than any amount of charm.