The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
We're not going to have a backlash. We're going to build a consensus. And I live in the real world, not the… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“She spent all her free time either drawing the strange things she saw in her dreams, or with her nose inside historical… — Lisa Cach Copy Share Image
“The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Yes.” She smiled, liking the word. “What I feel like right now—I’d compare it to waking from a dream and seeing the… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
I've known Miz for a long time. We were both at the now-defunct Deep South developmental territory, and dude works hard. He… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
What we did with Avatar, if you really look at it, we took things that are out there in the world every… — Joe Letteri Copy Share Image
“He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Now having Brynhildic fantasies about her was nothing--I have all sorts of extraordinary fantasies which I don't take seriously--but bringing my fantasies… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think technology is fantastic but maybe it's just developed too fast for us in real world applications. By the same token… — Clint Mansell Copy Share Image
“In front of the inn was a beautiful mountain stream where one could catch lots of firm, colorful fish. Noisy birds were… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Clouds in Fillory weren’t clammy and disappointing the way they were in the real world, they brushed past you all warm and… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“An insane person believes his world is consistent. If he believes the government is trying to kill him, he will see ample… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“The clock in his car hadn't adjusted to daylight saving time yet and said it was four-fifteen when it was really five-fifteen.… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Most everyone lived twice in those days. They echoed their own steps. They took one step in the real world and one… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Loving you means living the real world. no hypocracy,no shame,no dull moment,no limit...i can give my all and I can get what… — Ian Copy Share Image
I am in an endless journey towards an infinite route, only to find a real world of humanity. This thirst is eternal.… — G.M.B. Akash Copy Share Image
We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“True brilliance has a well-known positive correlation with decency, much of the time--a fact the rest of us rely on, more than… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one… — William Weld Copy Share Image
Years ago, I was thinking about this type of character and what happens when you've lived in this sort of strange, surreal… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
“I think I've been very lucky. The readers who write to me say they like the characters and the sense of a… — Sophie Weston Copy Share Image
I think it's so important that, if I'm writing about the real world, I stay true to it. I think that kids… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
'De nada,' replied Gregorius. The Portuguese couple sat down, the train went on. Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
“In my dream I was a seal, and I made love to a seagull. Then I got eaten by a shark, because… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A lot of people feel like urban fantasy is a shortcut that gets you around world-building, because it's set "in the real… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums.… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“I wanted to help." "Shouldn't that count for something?" "What, just wanting to?" She shook her head, leaning away from him. "I… — R. Lee Smith Copy Share Image
I did well in school, was the captain of the wrestling team and the football team, and always got along well with… — Chuck Liddell Copy Share Image
“I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
“This desire for “something beyond” does not empty the real world, but actually gives it new depths. “He does not despise real… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best.… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems,… — Jon Fishman Copy Share Image
I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
