Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Spitz

I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.

Mark Strand

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

Mark Strand

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

Mark Teixeira

Its a real honor to be included among the list of finalists, when you see the names that are there, ... Some of the guys who won the Hank Aaron Award in the past are thought of as some of the best players in the history of the game, so just to be included with those guys is really gratifying.

Mark Steyn

The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable

Mark Steyn

Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.

Mark Steyn

But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that.

Mark Steyn

The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole.

Mark Steyn

This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.

Mark Patterson

Love the people that wanna see you be successful and help you expecting nothing in return. That’s priceless. Those are real friends.

Mark O'Connor

I have no doubt that most people who listen to Alison Krauss and say they like bluegrass have never heard real bluegrass played in the traditional manner, and probably don't even know who Bill Monroe is.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.

Mark Pincus

I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they’re humble.

Mark Pincus

We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business.

Marilu Henner

Lack of time is a real health killer.

Marilyn French

For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women's bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women's bodies and regulate their appearance in some way.

Nick Lowe

London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind of hand them off. You're in charge for a bit and then you don't go out anymore. You say, "Oh god, it's going to be too crowded."

Nick Kroll

Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.

Nick Kroll

It's a real democratic time for comedy, and I think my special is a sign for that. You don't have to just be a classic stand-up to get a special, or you don't just have to be on Saturday Night Live to do characters and sketch on TV. The web has allowed me to show that there are different ways to make people laugh, and the special is a combination of those things.

Nick Kroll

In real life, you care about other people, but at the end of the day you're like, "I'm acting upon whatever it is that I want or need."

Nick Kroll

You get to have some bigger comedic moments with some very real dramatic stuff. All that in one makes for a fulfilling artistic job.

Nick Cave

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

Nick Cave

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

Nick Cave

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.

Nick Cassavetes

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

Nick Cannon

Real men change diapers!

Nancy Grace

I really believe that professional wrestlers are not protected. I think everybody gets a big kick out of watching them and whether the wrestling is real or not, people love watching it.

Nam June Paik

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

I know people who support Hamas, but they never got involved in terrorist attacks, for example... they follow Hamas because they love God and they think that Hamas represents God. They don't have knowledge, they don't know the real God, and they never studied Christianity. But Hamas, as representative for Islam, it's a big problem.

Paulo Freire

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

Paulo Freire

Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality.

Paulo Freire

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.