Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Edmund Hillary

I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.

Eddy Grant

The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.

Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties.

Khloe Kardashian

I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go wrong?

Jane Bryant Quinn

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

Jane Addams

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

Jane Addams

We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.

Jane Addams

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Jane Austen

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Jane Austen

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

Jane Austen

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Jane Austen

She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

Jane Austen

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

Jane Austen

I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Jane Austen

Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what would have others think of us.

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

Jan Brett

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real,

Jan Egeland

First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality.

Jan Egeland

It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive.

Jamie Zawinski

These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are ... something else entirely.

Jamie Zawinski

Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?

Jamie Zawinski

The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.

Jamie McCourt

There's potential for it being soon. The reality is that there are only 'X' positions available, so it's a matter of luck or timing. They are people positions, and Kim is incredibly qualified.

Jamie Lee Curtis

My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.

Jamie Oliver

Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.

Jamie Lee Curtis

People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.