Why don't you sparkle?" -"Because I live in the real…

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

Part of life is doing stuff that you don't want to do.

— One Who Does Not Wish To Be Named

It's really hard coming of age in today's society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with…

— Rooney Mara

“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly…

— Umberto Eco

[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

“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.…

— C.S. Lewis

“we shouldn’t surrender our real world perception to a false reality too much or we may suffer the inevitable consequences of deluded thinking. Technology…

— M.P. Neary

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

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex

— Karl Marx

I go to the real world, not the Internet.

— Zendaya

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

Just leaving the brotherhood I have made at Georgia, the staff and all my coaches. They've prepared me for the real world. I'm really…

— A. J. Green