Real World Quotes

622 Real World quotes by 517 unique authors

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen. — Anthony Burgess
A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real… — Steven Morrissey
Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window. — Neal Stephenson
Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause somethinge… — Pascal Mercier
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the… — Orson Scott Card
Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By… — Haruki Murakami
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which… — Gene Wolfe
Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world. — Annie Dillard
Why do you want to be on The Real World? -Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why? -Isn't it gorgeous? — Dave Eggers
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had… — Charlotte Bronte
The real world is where the monsters are. — Rick Riordan
School prepares you for the real world... which also bites. — Jim Benton
In mind's special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the 60 minutes reported by a grandfather clock. Such time, in fact, hardly exists… — John L. Parker Jr.
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity,… — Orson Scott Card
What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter… — Michael Ondaatje
He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world. — Arthur C. Clarke
What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but… — Haruki Murakami
How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq,… — Shane Claiborne
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. — Orson Scott Card
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with… — W. Somerset Maugham
Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the… — Paul Auster
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. — Haruki Murakami
The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to… — Caroline Knapp
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution. — Jasper Fforde

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