Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diablo Cody

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

Diablo Cody

Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.

Diablo Cody

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

Diablo Cody

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

Derek Bok

I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

Derek Jacobi

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

Denzel Washington

I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.

Denzel Washington

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

Denis Waitley

The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

Denis Waitley

Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line.

Denis Waitley

Real success comes in small portions day by day.

Denis Waitley

The real risk is doing nothing.

Denis Waitley

Real power comes by empowering others.

Denis Waitley

If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.

Denis Leary

When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.

Denis Leary

Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.

Denis Leary

If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.

When people tell me they're trying to meditate, I always know they don't have a format yet that works. I encourage a real meditative format that you use daily, because meditation is incremental and it only works if done every day.

Deborah Eisenberg

Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. It’s going to hold.

Deborah Hutton

This is the reality, that these people share the same problems as the rest of us and that those problems can be overcome.

Deb Caletti

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

Deb Caletti

Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

Deb Caletti

But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.

Dierks Bentley

Blackberry Smoke is the real deal!

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try. We must try to believe. Try to learn of God: read the scriptures; study the words of His latter-day prophets; choose to listen to the Father, and do the things He asks of us. Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible-and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God's light is real, it is available to all. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You may feel burdened by worry, fear, or doubt. To you and to all of us, I repeat a wonderful and certain truth: #God's light is real. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound. It can illuminate the path before us and lead us through the darkest night into the promise of a new dawn.

Dick Durbin

Justice O'Connor was the fifth vote to uphold the time- honored principle, which bears repeating, of separation of church and state. There was real wisdom in the decision of our forefathers in writing a Constitution that gave us an opportunity to grow as such a diverse nation, and we should never forget it.

Dennis Hopper

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

Dennis Hopper

There are moments that I`ve had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough.

Dennis Lehane

Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because that's what growing older is.

Dennis Lehane

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.