Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hunter S. Thompson

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

Hunter S. Thompson

The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Hunter S. Thompson

The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it.

Hunter S. Thompson

I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

Hunter S. Thompson

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Hunter S. Thompson

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

Hugo Pratt

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

Hugo Weaving

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

Janet Fitch

What is real is always worth it.

Janet Evanovich

I’ll be real discreet,” Tank said. As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in black SWAT clothes, with a Glock holstered at his side could be.

Janet Evanovich

I think I got a bruise from landing on you. I hear bacon is real good for healing a bruise.

Janet Evanovich

I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate." Grandma Mazur

Janet Evanovich

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

Janet Evanovich

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

Jane Rule

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.

Jane McGonigal

Games are providing rewards that reality is not.

Jane McGonigal

I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.

Jane McGonigal

I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.

Jane McGonigal

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

Jane McGonigal

The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.

Jane McGonigal

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Jane McGonigal

Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.

Jane McGonigal

Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.

Jane Lynch

I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.

Jane Rosenthal

Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality.

Jane Roberts

The private experience that you perceive forms your world, period. But which world do you inhabit? For if you altered your private sensations of reality, then that world, seemingly the only one, would also change. You do go through transformations of beliefs all the time, and your perception of the world is different. You seem to be, no longer, the person you that you were. You are quite correct — you are not the person that you were, and your world has changed, and not just symbolically.

Jane Roberts

You are given the gifts of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs.

Jane Roberts

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

Jane Roberts

You are so part of the world that your slightest action contributes to its reality. Your breath changes the atmosphere. Your encounters with others alter the fabrics of their lives, and the lives of those who come in contact with them.

Euripides

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Etel Adnan

I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We don’t separate thinking from feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?