“Fantasies keep your real. It's the real things in life that make you insane.” — A.J. Wallace Copy Share Image
“Isn't that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real?” — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
In our hearts,there are things we wish were real and things we wish were alive.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When real things are so wonderful, what is the point of pretending?” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Bouldering is like masturbation: not as good as the real thing but you don't need to worry about your protection. — Scott Grimes Copy Share Image
I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better. — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Democritus sometimes does away with what appears to the senses, and says that none of these appears according to truth but only… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
Everybody grows up wanting something. When they learn wanting something doesn't bring you real happiness, they will start to want less. I've… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
When we say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," we should also understand that "The Buddha takes refuge in me," because without… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way.… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Okay well - no that is a very real thing seven-year-olds asking for BlackBerrys and cell phones and things like that. And… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I find that, for me, it is this concept of borrowed or built life, life on loan, that gets me writing. It's… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Just understand, don't choose - don't choose even choicelessness. Simply understand the whole situation: that whatsoever you choose, whatsoever you do, will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't. — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot… — Ziad Masri Copy Share Image
Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find… — Aviv Nevo Copy Share Image