Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Grillparzer

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

Frank Zappa

He wants to do you in cause the color of your skin.

Frank Zappa

I am the slime oozing out from your TV set. You will obey me while I lead you, and eat the garbage while I feed you.

Frank Zappa

Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty.

Frank Zappa

Studied law, but not qualified to practice it.

Jeff Lindsay

...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.

Jeff Lindsay

They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

Jeff Lindsay

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

Jeff Lindsay

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

Jeanette Winterson

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

Jeanette Winterson

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Jeanette Winterson

Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.

Jeanette Winterson

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Jeanette Winterson

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Jeanette Winterson

I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.

Jeanette Winterson

When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.

Jeanette Winterson

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.

Jim Caviezel

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

Jim Caviezel

The point I'm trying to make is that you go to church on Sunday. But the real Christ is out there in your life every day, whether it be the guy you help on the street, how you live your life, and your countenance that makes people want to be you.

Jim Caviezel

I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.

Jim Cooper

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

Jim Clyburn

Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it

Jim Carrey

Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.

Jim Carrey

That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.

Jim Carrey

It's exhausting I think to just say really yes to everything for real, even if you do it for a day.

Jim Carrey

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

Jim Carrey

Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close-up. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so... It's not a pleasant feeling!

Jim Carrey

To find real peace you have to let the armor go. Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Jessie Ware

I am just trying to keep it real.

Jessie Ware

I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.

Jethro Tull

Take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars.

Jet Li

The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said the real boss is the audience.

Jewel

I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.