Famous Quotes & Sayings

James L. Brooks

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

Joe Queenan

A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.

Joe Paterno

Connfidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Joe Perry

I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

Joe Nichols

Life on the road is very different from a normal, day to day life, and sometimes that surrealistic existence can have an effect on you, you tend to forget that's not really how things are supposed to be. But there comes a point where you have to pace yourself and find a place in your mind where you can be real.

Joe Rogan

Despite all the advancements in science, and all things about religion that are disproved it still marches on. The bottom line is that the only real, absolutely provable answers about life and our place in the universe are provided by science, and religion has been holding down science since day one.

Joe Rogan

Houston Alexander is for real!

Joe Rogan

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

Joe Rogan

If life wasn't real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever

Joe Frazier

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

Joe Eszterhas

Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth.

Joan D. Vinge

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

Joan Didion

I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

Jim Zalesky

It doesn't matter if it's fair, that's just the reality of it.

Jim Woodring

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

Jim Woodring

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.

Jim Woodring

I do sort of feel like I'm building my monument with what I do, but it's pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works of genius which are giving vast inspiration to humanity. But I guess I shouldn't even say that. It's ridiculous to say that. You are what you are. My stature suits me.

Jimmie Johnson

It's real easy to sit on your couch and point fingers and say, 'So-and-so did something wrong...'. But until you are out there in these cars at these speeds and seeing all the near-misses and what is really going on, it is not worth forming an opinion.

Jim Hill

He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing.

Jim Knight

Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse. It is not realistic, practical or even desirable to completely eradicate grey squirrels, but we must control them effectively.

Jimi Hendrix

You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.

Jim Morrison

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.

Jim Morrison

There are images I need to complete my own reality.

Jim Morrison

That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act

Jim Morrison

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Jim Morrison

Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

Jim Morrison

Lets just say I was testing the bounds of reality.

Eric Topol

I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. 'Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength.' So they're looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything.

Eric Stoltz

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

Eric Thomas

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

Eric Thomas

I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.

Eric Garcetti

Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.

Eric Close

If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.