In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?” — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music,… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen” — Alex DeLarge Copy Share Image
That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the… — Jeph Jacques Copy Share Image
You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world,"… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Music can provide a much-needed break from life's harsh moments, but Eddy Current Suppression Ring has no interest in creating a sonic… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
“Unlike the competitive utopia described in economic models, where consumers can effortlessly compare competing products to make their choices, the real world… — Eduardo Porter Copy Share Image
“Welcome to the real world Kerri. Shit happens. You don't get to stop it by being a nun or telling the truth… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous,… — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in… — Loni Anderson Copy Share Image
There are so many of these young-adult movies with these cold guys who act like jerks to girls but are hiding soft… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
I watch the weirdest things. I watch old episodes of 'Golden Girls' because my mom watches it, so I grew up watching… — Matthew Moy Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that we didn't know history. Even if you only count the real world, we knew more history than most people.… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“In the material world you miss opportunities to forge friendships and meet people because of appearance, social, and socioeconomic standings. Examine your… — Kyle Rohrig Copy Share Image
I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
“If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? I would need three… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“It is still a fairly astounding notion to consider that atoms are mostly empty space, and that the solidity we experience all… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world. — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Everybody is going to face adversity at some point, definitely when you leave college and try to get into the real world… — Danny Amendola Copy Share Image
The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things,… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
Happily Ever Afters are only for fairy tales there is no Happily Ever Afters in the real world its called being realistic. — Serenity C Copy Share Image
I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“In the real world anything can happen. It's like stepping onto an icy surface - you have to adjust your footing or… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“The real world isn't like one of those lending library novels that you ladies read--and write--so avidly.” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
I think it's important to live as much of your life as possible in the real world. If you live a life… — Nina Shaw Copy Share Image
He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Mind is everything. Every thought you create manifests itself in real world; if you didn't achieve something you strive for - you… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“(In the real world, you’d want to use a custom search system of some sort. Search the Web for open-source full-text search… — Nigel George Copy Share Image