For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“... out here in "the real world," every day was sort of like the one before. I guess that's why people freaked… — David Rosen Copy Share Image
“Irony sucks, you know?" Roger nodded. "That it does. Safely confined to the pages of novels, it's an interesting rhetorical device; encountered… — John Langan Copy Share Image
If you think about it, it requires a lot of effort and time and energy to make money in the real world,… — Brock Pierce Copy Share Image
“Silly Daisy, she told herself as she signed for the bill; always looking for hidden meanings in everything. She decided right then… — Lorelei Mathias Copy Share Image
The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“The thing is, I can't love her, not in the real world. Because this would be degrading to me. To love someone… — Victor Lodato Copy Share Image
I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
“Adults are not idiots often in books such as this one, the opposite impression is given. Adults in those stories will either… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Renunciation, The Natural Daughter demonstrates, is the act of those who believe that their happiness is dependent on a power beyond their… — Nicholas Boyle Copy Share Image
“The hour or so after I woke up was my least favorite part of each day, because I spent it in the… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“In the material world you miss opportunities to forge friendships and meet people because of appearance, social, and socioeconomic standings. Examine your… — Kyle Rohrig Copy Share Image
I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
“If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? I would need three… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Today, the best way to communicate with someone is still face-to-face. Virtual reality has the potential to change that, to make it… — Palmer Luckey Copy Share Image
I think as technology and expertise makes possible these sort of amazing levels of fidelity to the real world, a lot of… — Khoi Vinh Copy Share Image
“The emotional transformation of engineering education isn’t magical thinking. Nor is it a vague abstraction or a series of touchy-feely practices. It… — David Edward Goldberg Copy Share Image
“[L]et any one transport himself to the time when living, present miracles were believed in; … when they lived only in the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Oh, what do you know?" LaMont spat. "You're just an ivory-tower philosopher geek. I live in the real world. The fuck-or-be-fucked world."… — Dan Marshall Copy Share Image
“One of my favourite things to do when I write is to bring a sense of wonder to a normal everyday setting...… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But the problem is that Jesus' kingdom (and Paul's "citizenship in heaven") was about the real world, here and now. It was… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“There is no "tropical island paradise" I know of which remotely matches up to the fantasy ideal that such a phrase is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Remember, you are no longer students. You are no longer works in progress. You are now citizens of the real world. You… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing.… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other’s imagination. I am the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“but they saw each failure as a necessary part of the process to getting things right. They embraced the failures because they… — Matt Lewis Copy Share Image
It will take just 37 seconds to read this and change your thinking.. Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try to stay level-headed and it's always the way I've been. Sometimes your personality out in the real world, you want… — Eli Manning Copy Share Image
“I’ve never believed in fairy tales. One day, the fairies will tell this story. There will be a valiant prince, a part… — T.T. Escurel Copy Share Image
“There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Before you deride the “mainstream media,” note that it is no longer the mainstream. It is derision that is mainstream and easy,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever. The whole college… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The authors’ other argument is for the supposed social-bonding role of sex but how many ancestral males would choose to ‘socially-bond’ with… — Lynn Saxon Copy Share Image
“...what goes on inside believers is mysterious. So far as it can be guessed at - if for some reason you wanted… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising… — Anonymous Copy Share Image