Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruno Heller

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

Bryan Singer

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I have nothing nice to say about Chris Pratt, of course. He's probably the greatest hero of our time in real life, honestly.

Bryan White

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

Bryan Stevenson

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

Bryan Stevenson

In many ways, we’ve been taught to think that the real question is, ‘Do people deserve to die for the crimes they’ve committed?’ And that’s a very sensible question. But there’s another way of thinking about where we are in our identity. The other way of thinking about it is not ‘Do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit?’ but ‘Do we deserve to kill?’

Bryan Adams

I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

Cesare Beccaria

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

Cesar Romero

Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.

Cesar Romero

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didnt have to be a gigolo. In real life.

Chad Harbach

I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a question of "this is written by someone with an MFA, and this isn't." I challenge anyone to identify a book in that way. It's totally impossible.

Chad Harbach

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

Cesare Pavese

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

Cesare Pavese

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Cesare Pavese

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will...

Cesare Pavese

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Cesare Pavese

Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.

Cesare Pavese

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

Catherine Booth

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

Catherine Booth

A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!

Catherine Crier

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

Catherine Bertini

The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die.

Catherine Deneuve

I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.

Catherine Deneuve

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

Cary Elwes

The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.

Cary Cooper

These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.

Carter G. Woodson

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

Carter G. Woodson

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

Caroline B. Cooney

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

Carole King

Only love is real...everything else is illusion

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.