Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boyd Rice

If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the law of gravity. Now that’s a law. Laws made by man are rules reflecting the current status of his moral codes. As he alters and whittles away his morality, casting bits and pieces aside, his codes change to reflect it.

Boyd Rice

Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-out unearned "rights" in an attempt to make its doctrine a living reality. In short: humanity is Democratic, nature is Fascist.

Jane Haddam

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

Jane Green

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

Jane Jacobs

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

Jane Jacobs

Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?

Jane Jacobs

You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.

Jane Jacobs

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

Jane Hirshfield

"And" seems to me closest. "And" nods toward the real. And "and" is the path to perspective. To feel and see from more angles and know all of them true, even the incomprehensible ones, even the ones that contradict one another.

Jane Hirshfield

The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.

Jane Hirshfield

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

Jane Hirshfield

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

Jane Hirshfield

Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them.

Jane Gardam

Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.

Jane Campion

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.

Jane Campion

One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

Jane Goodall

You have to realise that touching is a real violation of personal space.

Jane Fonda

Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.

Jane Fonda

feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality ...

Jane Fonda

Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!

Jane Fonda

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

Jane Fonda

I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

Jane Fonda

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Jan Karon

I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

Jamie Chung

The casting directors that were aware of The Real World looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

Jamie Campbell Bower

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

Jamie Bell

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

Jamie Foxx

We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.

Jamie Foxx

I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

Jamie Drummond

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

Jamie Dimon

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

Edmund Hillary

I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.

Eddy Grant

The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.