Real Things Quotes

86 Real Things quotes by 76 unique authors

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch… — Marshall McLuhan
My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for… — Gwyneth Paltrow
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention… — Lou Reed
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. — C.S. Lewis
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives... — Jonathan Kozol
When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the… — Nicole Krauss
the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of… — Sue Monk Kidd
Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous… — C.S. Lewis
She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so… — Jonathan Franzen
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those… — H P Lovecraft
We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers.… — Irvine Welsh
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a… — Alan Watts
It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything. — Maureen Johnson
The challenge is to write about real things magically. — Raymond Chandler
You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there… — John Green
And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ... — Edith Wharton
Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I… — Jeanette Winterson
I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words… — David Levithan
... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes,… — Marisha Pessl
I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are… — Steve Buscemi
Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things. — Chuck Close
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. — John Mayall
I don't think either the Offspring or Green Day started their bands with the intention of becoming so enormously popular; that sort of fell in… — Jello Biafra
It's a shame that you been deprived of love so long, that you never got the chance to experience the real things. It's like your… — Marquis Heath

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