I'm starting to withdraw from [technology] as much as I can. I don't do much of the social media stuff. Like, if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Particularly with MFA students, who have so much invested - literally and figuratively - I feel like honest criticism is something they're… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
For me, it's all about the fact that here's this piece of material where there's one world and it's the real world.… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was… — John Hamill Copy Share Image
A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Sure, intellectually, she knew that pacifism was the superior way of life. The problem was that it was a lot like communism… — Evan C. Currie Copy Share Image
Why do you think people close their eyes when they kiss? Think about it. In the real world, if you saw someone… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Technological innovations that produced certain major components of the United States military cannot be understood as resulting from a qualitative arms race.… — Stephen Peter Rosen Copy Share Image
General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“They way one does research into nonexistent history is to tell the story and find out what happened. I believe this isn't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
“For a moment I am jealous: He has grown up here, fearless, happy. Perhaps he will never even know about the world… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The best part about owning it is that when you accept what really is, you stop living in the past or in… — Bethenny Frankel Copy Share Image
“Colin didn’t want to go back to his room. He walked around for a very long time, looking down at the sidewalks… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
In high fashion, we're always accused of doing things that are not very relevant, not the real world. I know that it's… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
“If, adhering closely to the absolute, we try to avoid all difficulties by a stroke of the pen, and insist with logical… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“A real-world problem is something like “Has the recession and its aftermath been especially bad for women in the workforce, and if… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I liked lots of 'Doctor Who' books, but my favourite tale was a spooky story about two invalid children - who've never… — Stephen Cole Copy Share Image
“What will all that chatter and hearsay count (will you even be able to remember it?) when the anaesthetic fog which we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“Sherlock Holmes is a literary figment. He lives in Neverland, so he always gets to be right. But if he tried to… — Jonathan Gottschall 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 you'll slip… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
“I have lived so long within the circle of this book and with these characters that often it seems to me that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
We asked ourselves the question: is there anything we wished we had known before heading out into the terrifying unknown that is… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
There have been a lot of events that have made me really look at the real world, like September 11th. There are… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
Games are quite shy at talking about different things. Most are about facing hordes of monsters or saving the world or whatever;… — David Cage Copy Share Image
Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens,… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
A lot of nudity in my early movies was out of necessity. When I came out to Hollywood, I didn't know anybody,… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
Academic Marxists were never going to be convinced that anything that happened in the real world could invalidate their belief system. Utopians… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image