Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Lynch

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

David Lynch

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

David Haas

The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.

David Hemmings

The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat the camera with a certain amount of reverence. It is all about the kind of lens you choose, the kind of film stock you use… exactly the sort of perfection of the camera. Whereas, the professional the real professional – treats the camera with unutterable disdain. They pick up the camera and sling it aside. Because they know it’s the eye and the brain that count, not the mechanism that gets between them and the subject that counts.

David Hackworth

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

David Charvet

I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.

David Carradine

I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.

Dan Brown

FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Dan Brown

As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

Curtis Granderson

A lot of people have told me real New Yorkers are Mets fans

Curt Schilling

The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after.

Curtis Jackson

Real man is someone who handles his responsibilities. Take care of all of his responsibilities. No matter how, by any means take care of your situations.

Curtis Jackson

When Elvis was there, they were stopping everything. Elvis had the moment for real. While I'm here, its not all about 50 Cent, but it was all about Elvis.

Curtis Jackson

Reality is my drug. The more I have of it, the more power I get and the higher I feel

Corey Stoll

I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.

Corey Feldman

The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action movie, putting the bad guys where they belong, as the bad guys, and looking for a hero to come along and defend our very souls.

Corin Nemec

There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.

Corey Taylor

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

Corey Taylor

The things that scare me are real life situations. Real life is much more scary than anything you can put on the movie screen. Which is why I get very upset when people try to blame the movies for the violence in this world. I'm like 'Are you kidding me?'. There is more violence in a four hour period on CNN than any movie I have in my massive collection.

Corey Taylor

Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every day we draw breath. Whether it's good or bad, it's still reality; the opposite of illusion, the foe of fantasy, and the anchor that keeps us stuck on this plane. And thank Buddha it does, because some people need it in huge doses.

Confucius

Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?

Confucius

The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

Confucius

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

Daniel Suarez

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

Daniel Suarez

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

Daniel Yergin

To meet the energy challenge requires the most important energy of all - human creativity. That's the real prize.

Daniel Webster

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Daniel Tosh

Real patriotism is realizing America sucks, but everywhere else is a thousand times worse.

Dana Snyder

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

Dana Spiotta

If you directly try to write about an idea, it will never be what you imagined. But if you're imagining through the building of sentences, through the characters, and paying attention to avoid ease and comfort yet still thinking about making the sentences work, you will get a shot at some real interesting stuff.

Dana Spiotta

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.

Dana Spiotta

I like to mix the real and the imaginary. Sometimes it is characters inspired by real people I know or know of. Sometimes it is a named person from the common cultural dreamscape. And it is tricky, because they have a lot of associated ideas that come with them, and a lot of actual facts.

Dane Cook

I'm really great in other peoples relationships.