Realistic Quotes · Page 17

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

— Paul Lafargue

I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

— Kelli O'Hara

I've represented my country and played in the Premier League a long time so I am pretty realistic and confident in what…

— Fabian Delph

I always try to reuse and rewear things. It's realistic, and it's the most sustainable, and it's the example I want to…

— Maisie Peters

I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.

— Sylvia Day

I like method actors who don't focus on the glamorous side, but on realistic acting.

— Sanam Saeed

“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.”

— Susan Rowland

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

— Frank Miller

But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating…

— Jude Morgan

It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's…

— Stephen Hawking

Let's be realistic, every terrorist came to Syria, he came through Turkey with the support of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan. So, fighting those…

— Bashar al-Assad

People always ask me, Do you ever think you'll wake up one morning and not be funny? That thought would never occur…

— Woody Allen

Epcot Center also features pavilions built by various foreign nations, where you can experience an extremely realistic simulation of what life in…

— Dave Barry

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about…

— Irving Babbitt

A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I…

— Dan Fogelman

When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard,…

— Kenneth Bonert

A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism),…

— Joseph Campbell

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And…

— Philip Jose Farmer

Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her…

— Alfie Kohn

Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the…

— John Eliot

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so…

— Tim Ferriss

The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth…

— Mary Ritter Beard

Beauty has became a pejorative word in art. It was not something one should aspire to, because it was pedestrian. Beautiful things…

— Damian Loeb

The idea that we all have to be Pinterest-perfect, killing it on all fronts, drinking our probiotics, remembering to have Rishi, and…

— Busy Philipps

Sure, there are many bad things that can happen. Yet you can be aware of them, and realistic about them, without being…

— Ralph Marston

The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the…

— Craig Ferguson

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

— Anonymous

I remember my mom being very scared the first few auditions. My parents are very supportive, but they're also very realistic, which…

— Julia Garner

I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

— Tobias Wolff

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

— Peter Drucker

“Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven’t lived…

— Heather Chapple

I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn't be the hardest thing that…

— Joanna Garcia

I would like to see Donald Trump lay out specifics on an economic agenda that are realistic, that are small-business focused.

— Jeff Fortenberry

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

— Gene Wilder

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good…

— Peggy Noonan

I am not going to sit here and say I am never going to drink again. That is not realistic.

— Rob Ford

“but she possessed what was better than beauty: an absolutely realistic evaluation of life.”

— James A. Michener

I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.

— Austin Aries

It is much more realistic accepting the past for what it is than wishing to have it changed.

— Terry Mark

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton