Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackie Robinson

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I'm a realist and I always have been.

Jackie Kennedy

Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.

Jackson Browne

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

Jackson Browne

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

Jackson Browne

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.

Jack Vance

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

Jack Vance

How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real...

Jack Vance

You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.

Jack Vance

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

Christopher Hampton

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

Christopher Guest

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.

Christopher Guest

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

Christopher Guest

We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.

Christopher Lasch

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Christopher Jones

You have to realize what you don't know before you can learn about it.

Christopher Isherwood

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.

Christopher Hitchens

The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came to me in Sarajevo a year or two later... That was an early quarrel between me and many of my Nation colleagues, and it was also the first time I found myself in the same trench as people like Paul Wolfowitz and Jeane Kirkpatrick: a shock I had to learn to get over. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens

When you consider how many millions of workdays begin with hangovers great and small, it is mildly ­surprising to find how few real descriptions of the experience our literature can boast.

George Harrison

So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

Gaspard Ulliel

For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

Gaston Bachelard

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

Gaston Bachelard

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

Gaston Bachelard

The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.

Gaston Bachelard

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

Gary Vaynerchuk

The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Ignoring platforms that have gained critical mass is a great way to look slow and out-of-touch. Do not cling to nostalgia. Do not put your principles above the reality of the market. Do not be a snob.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

Gary Vaynerchuk

The brands that can connect with client in a real way will win.

Gary Zukav

Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.