Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurell K. Hamilton

A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

Lars Leijonborg

Reality is our best friend - everything indicates that nuclear power should be used more.

Lasse Hallstrom

To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

Lasse Hallstrom

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

Lane Kirkland

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

Lance Secretan

We live under the illusion that organizations are 'them' when, in reality, they are 'us.' If we wish to work in evolved organizations, we must each be the first to start the journey.

Lance Reddick

The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Landon Donovan

If you let the reality of the business side get to you, it can turn you, and that's not good at all.

Langston Hughes

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.

Kyra Sedgwick

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

Kyra Sedgwick

Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so grateful to have the NRDC making our voice heard.

Kyra Sedgwick

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

Kyle Cooper

Crude hasn't been responding to fundamentals all year. I think crude has been 8 to 10 overvalued for some time and has been responding to the fear of what could happen rather than the reality of what is happening.

Kyle Chandler

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

Kwame Nkrumah

Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality... The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent.

John Kendrick Bangs

If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength reveal Get after it with all my main and might. The woe that but impends and wears the mind With worry deep and most vexatious care, Is harder fighting than the realler kind, For when you come to strike—it isn't there!

John Keats

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.

John Keats

Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would be forever find their illusion destroyed abruptly, and they, also, respond to the newly revealed reality by selling or trying to sell. And thus the rule, supported by the experience of centuries: the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

Juliette Lewis

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.

Julio Cortazar

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.

Julio Cortazar

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

Juliet Marillier

He was sitting not far away, watching me, and I surprised a smile on his face, the first real smile I had ever seen him give, a smile that curved and softened the tight mouth, and warmed the ice-cool eyes; a smile that brought the blood to my face and made my heart turn over.

Juliet Marillier

This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

Juliet Marillier

A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.

Juliet Marillier

Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.

Juliette Binoche

For me, real, truthful moments come from a place that I don't know. If somebody was telling me, "You're going to lift your face like this, you're going to do this..." No! I don't want to know. Just let me live it.