“It was one of those perfect Autumn days so common in stories and rare in the real world.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me. — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“Eventually the real world intruded again, and Sophie had to return to campus—woefully behind on homework, but incandescently in love.” — Molly Ringle Copy Share Image
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
It's one thing to skip class to play poker, but if I'm learning how to think in the real world playing poker,… — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
The dojo system in Japan is something very unique. It prepared me not only for wrestling in the States and around the… — Finn Balor Copy Share Image
When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in… — Norm Coleman Copy Share Image
A word of advice, though. This won't be the last time you have to deal with something in life that throws you… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. (Do the right thing even if the heavens fall.) It's not nearly as naïve a maxim as it… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that… — James Randi Copy Share Image
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The fall of humanity was the fall from the actual to the symbolic. Language abstracts us from the real world; keeping us… — Tony Vigorito Copy Share Image
“If you like the fields we’d walk away from the road into the fields, or we’d go fishing, if that’s what you… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life. — Miguel Gomes Copy Share Image
As soon as I was old enough, I wanted to learn to drive in the real world. — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place. — Hozier Copy Share Image
“I hate it when the real world ignores a perfectly logical, rational assumption.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The worst thing we can do is graduate kids who aren't prepared for the real world. — Gretchen Whitmer Copy Share Image
