Real World Quotes

622 Real World quotes by 517 unique authors

The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases… — Chuck Palahniuk
Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. — Bill Bryson
Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we… — Kate Atkinson
A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world. — Henry Cloud
In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and… — Dinesh D'Souza
Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it… — Nick Hornby
It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open… — Haruki Murakami
I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and… — Lisa See
...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people… — Dan Simmons
By now, everyone I know is one of seven strangers, inevitably hoping to represent a predefined demographic and always failing horribly. The Read World is… — Chuck Klosterman
In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows — Dean Koontz
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real. — Salman Rushdie
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling… — Georges Bataille
We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world. — Nicholas Sparks
The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re… — Bruce Sterling
Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely adapted to the… — Haruki Murakami
I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong. — Lilith Saintcrow
The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world. — Anne Rice
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality — Richard Dawkins
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began. — Steven Morrissey
What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the fact that, in… — Colum McCann
In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? — John Stott
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers… — Orson Scott Card

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