Welcome to the real world.

“You are just a bundle of energy. Welcome to the REAL world!”

— Verusha Singh

Welcome to the real Internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are the FBI.

— Anonymous

Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.

— John Mayer

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell…

— Anonymous

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

— Richard Dawkins

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:…

— Orson Scott Card

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize…

— Lev Grossman

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory…

— Annie Dillard

In the real world, you can make your own miracles.

— Richelle Mead

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

— Alan Cox

'The Matrix' is a movie that is all about glamour. I could do a whole talk on 'The Matrix' and glamour. It was criticized…

— Virginia Postrel

I go to the real world, not the Internet.

— Zendaya

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see…

— Carl Hiaasen