Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Adam

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

Kelsea Ballerini

I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life.

Kathryn Hulme

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

Kathy Najimy

When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.

Kathy Bates

I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

Katherine Waterston

I didnt find it difficult to live in the Inherent Vice world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

Katherine Waterston

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actors life.

Katherine Mansfield

Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way.

Katherine Mansfield

I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see.

Katherine Paterson

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

Katherine Paterson

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives, that somehow we hadn’t been able to see before.

Katherine Paterson

Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.

Katherine Paterson

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

Katherine Paterson

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

Kate Fleetwood

My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.

Kate Flannery

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

Kate Christensen

Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is incredibly useful and helpful to my "real" writing.

Kate Bush

We let the weirdness in.

Kate DiCamillo

Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

Karen Thompson Walker

I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.

Karen Walker

The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself.

Karen Traviss

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

Julia Sweeney

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

Julian Casablancas

When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks.

Julian Baggini

Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition

Julian Baggini

Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. . . . William's book combines real history and fictional constructs to tell a revealing story that makes us reconsider the meaning of familiar concepts.

Julian Baggini

The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

Julian Assange

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

Julian Assange

Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who's having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material.

Julian Assange

Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

Julian Assange

I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.

Julian Barnes

Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain.

Ken Ham

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.