Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary J. Blige

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

Mary J. Blige

The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.

Mary J. Blige

...I would be a liar and my fans would hate me if I said to them, 'Oh, we're perfect and everything is great.' We have situations just like everyone else. We're not out in public trying to kill each other, but it's real. We love each other.

Mary J. Blige

I'm searching for a real love.

Mary J. Blige

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

Mary J. Blige

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

Marta Kristen

I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far.

Martha Beck

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

Martha Beck

Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.

Martha Beck

Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.

Martha Beck

The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

Martha Beck

You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more.

Marshall McLuhan

There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.

Marshall McLuhan

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

Marshall McLuhan

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

Marshall McLuhan

The real news is bad news.

Marshall McLuhan

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

Marshall McLuhan

The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.

Marshall McLuhan

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Mark Harmon

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

Mark Gatiss

The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

Mark Helprin

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

Mark Helprin

A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People who dismiss all real emotion as sentimentality are cowards. They’re afraid to commit themselves, and so they remain ‘cool’ for the rest of their lives, until they’re dead—then they’re really cool.

Mark Helprin

I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.

Mark Haddon

A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.

Mark Haddon

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

Mark Haddon

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

Marisa Berenson

I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.

Marion Ross

I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.

Marion Nestle

The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Morgaine laughed and mocked, but when it was a real trouble, no one could be kinder.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine - kinswoman, I have never seen you weep. Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's tears? (...) Lancelot: No (...) it makes them seem so much more real, so much more vulnerable - women who never weep frighten me, because I know they are stronger than I, and I am always a little afraid of what they will do.

Marguerite Young

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.