Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck D.

We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

Chuck D.

The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.

Chuck D.

Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

Chuck D.

Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.

Chuck D.

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

Chuck D.

Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.

Chuck D.

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

Chuck D.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

Christopher Reeve

Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.

Christopher Reeve

Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.

Christopher Walken

I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.

Christopher Walken

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

Christopher Paolini

Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher McCandless

Happiness isn't real unless it is shared.

Christopher McCandless

Happiness is only real if shared.

Christopher McCandless

Happiness real only when shared.

Christopher McCandless

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!

Christopher McCandless

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

Christopher Meloni

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

Christopher Morley

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Christopher Morley

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Christopher Moore

Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.

Christopher Moore

I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people--unidentified but no less real--are threatening life as we know it, and in fact, may be bent on unraveling the very fabric of our existence.

Christopher Moore

There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.

Annie Smith Peck

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

Ansel Elgort

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

Ansel Elgort

I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck.

Annie Proulx

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Ansel Adams

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Anne Boleyn

I took piano lessons when I was real little. And you know... I hated it. But by the time I was in junior high, I had some kind of knowledge of the keyboards. In my very early years I played keyboards and bass.

Anne Beatts

There was this real fear in doing Square Pegs after getting such a fast ride to glory on Saturday Night Live. I was afraid that the word would be peaks early, fails to live up to promise.

Anne Bancroft

The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

Anne Bishop

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.