Famous Quotes & Sayings

The hours spent viewing TV are hours not available for actively participating in the real world, or playing, or being involved with friends and family. Watching television is an individual activity that tends to discourage interaction with others; as viewing time increases, family communication time decreases. As family communication decreases, people grow more distant from each other and may even forget how to carry on a good conversation.

George Bancroft

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

Gene Wilder

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.

Gene Wilder

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

Gene Wilder

I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.

Susan Blackmore

You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.

Susan Davis

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Carlos was probably somewhere warm, eating three meals a day, and sleeping in a real bed. That was the life

Susan Cain

The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a presence online and then extend these relationships into the real world.

Suranga Chandratillake

The reality is the majority of people are talking about it, but haven't launched it.

Suresh Raina

I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.

Suge Knight

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

Sufjan Stevens

I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.

Sufjan Stevens

Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of overstimulation. Sometimes I think it's like a drug; more is more, and you can never get enough. The older I get, the more I crave that excessive aesthetic. It's never going to satisfy me.

Sufjan Stevens

If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

Sugar Ray Leonard

It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.

Stuart Townsend

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didnt realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

Stuart Townsend

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

Stuart Symington

In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.

Studs Terkel

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

Studs Terkel

We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

Studs Terkel

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

Stuart Wilde

Gradually, by processing emotion and understanding the psychological action involved, you realize it isn't really complex. It may seem so at first, but that's because you still belong to your emotions and opinions--you think they're yours and that they're real. They aren't--they belong to the ego. The Infinite Self cannot be insecure.

Stuart Wilde

An affirmation is almost like a mantra. It does not really matter if what you are affirming is not totally true as yet. By repeating an affirmation over and over again, it becomes embedded in the subconscious mind, and eventually it becomes your reality.

Stuart Wilde

Pride that you express to others is ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride.

Stuart Wilde

It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down.

Stuart Wilde

All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.

Stuart Wilde

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

Stuart Wilde

The real you, the inner you, is pure, very pure. It's loving and it's magnanimous. It understands. It has patience. It is tolerant-it will wait forever while your ego trots all over everywhere trying to figure life out. It is pleasing to remember that back home there is a friend who's waiting for you to stop being silly, who's waiting to welcome you with open arms if and when you show up.

Stockwell Day

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

Stockwell Day

The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.

Stone Gossard

Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.