Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

Camille Paglia

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

Camille Paglia

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

Camille Paglia

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

Camille Paglia

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

Camille Paglia

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

Caitlin Moran

We need to reclaim the word feminism. We need to reclaim the word feminism real bad.

C. J. Cherryh

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

C. Northcote Parkinson

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

Bryan Magee

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Bryan Magee

To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it.

Bryan Davis

Fantasy stories open our eyes to an unseen world and train our minds to see beyond the visible. In the New Testament context, this is where our real battles are fought. Good fantasy will reveal the hidden powers of evil that threaten the hero's life and upset his journey. Good fantasy focuses on how a hero finds victory when he learns that he can't win by himself, so he submits to the higher power in faith and obedience.

Bryan Cupito

We're 5-3, that's what we are. We're 5-3 with three games left. Maybe it doesn't feel like it, but we've got to face reality. We're 5-3, and 8-3 looks a lot better than 5-6 or 6-5. We can make something of our season.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words

Cathy Freeman

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

Cathy Guisewite

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

Catherynne M. Valente

Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

Catherynne M. Valente

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

Caryl Churchill

Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the space and the detail of her work with the actors, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with Light Shining.

Casey Stengel

Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?

Carl Icahn

We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.

Carl Hiaasen

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.

Carl Hiaasen

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

Carl Hiaasen

Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

Jaron Lanier

The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.

Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.

Louis C. K.

What we've done with our modern food supply is absolute insanity. It's not even real any more. You used to be able to give a kid an apple and they would love it. Kids can't even taste apples any more. Apples taste like paper to kids now.

Louis C. K.

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

Lord Acton

Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.