Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

Olafur Eliasson

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.

Olafur Eliasson

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

Olga Korbut

I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

Olga Kurylenko

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

Olive Schreiner

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

Octave Mirbeau

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.

Octavian Paler

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

Octavia Spencer

I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

Octavia Spencer

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

O. Henry

Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

Octavio Paz

We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.

Octavio Paz

Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.

Octavio Paz

It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

Octavio Paz

It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some moment. Some of us experienced it first as a condemnation, later transformed into consciousness and action. The search for the present is neither the pursuit of an earthly paradise nor that of a timeless eternity: it is the search for a real reality.

Michael Cera

The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.

Michael Caine

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

Michael Caine

I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.

Michael Caine

I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.

Michael Caine

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

Merrill Markoe

I really enjoyed Merrill Markoe's Guide To Glamorous Living, which was a weird hybrid reality/sketch thing I wrote, directed, and hosted, with two male-model bimbos whom I made agree with everything I said.

Merrill Markoe

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

Merrill Markoe

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

Merrill Markoe

Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

Merle Shain

Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

Melanie Chisholm

I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation.

Meir Kahane

There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.

Masi Oka

I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house.

Masashi Kishimoto

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

Masashi Kishimoto

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?