Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Stanley

Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.

Andy Stanley

Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.

Andy Stanley

If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.

Andy Warhol

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.

Andy Warhol

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.

Andy Warhol

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

Andy Warhol

Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.

Andy Warhol

During the '60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again.

Andy Warhol

Perception precedes reality.

Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody’s on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.

Andrew O'Hagan

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

Andre Benjamin

I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don't have style at all, so most companies are getting rich off clothes that look torn, clothes that look worn.

Andre Dubus

And I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I'd lived so far had formed layers of skin and muscle over myself that others saw as me when the real one had been underneath all along, and I knew writing- even writing badly- had peeled away those layers, and I knew then that if I wanted to stay awake and alive, if I wanted to stay me, I would have to keep writing.

Andre Breton

Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.

Andre Breton

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

Andre Breton

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

Andre Breton

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

Andre Gide

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

Amy Hill

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

Ann Rinaldi

When I write I am the real me.

Ann Richards

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

Ann Romney

A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.

Ann Patchett

If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.

Ang Lee

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.

Anant Agarwal

Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.

Anastasia Myskina

My real goal is the Olympics. It's going to be tough but it was very good preparation to play here.

Anatoly Chubais

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

Anais Nin

My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.

Anais Nin

You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

Amanda Lindhout

Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.

Alvin Toffler

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

Alton Brown

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera

Alton Brown

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it