Real World Quotes

622 Real World quotes by 517 unique authors

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for… — John Guare
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a… — Richard Dawkins
If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but… — Muhammad Yunus
You would kill or enslave everyone? There is so much beauty in the world that they’d destroy. How do you not see it? (Delphine) Spoken… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out… — Richard Siken
We're in the Chicago suburbs, ruling our 'hood and the streets that lead here. It's a street war, where other suburban gangs fight us for… — Simone Elkeles
Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They… — Virginia Woolf
I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is… — Libba Bray
I was in a self-induced depression. Welcome to me Real World. — Natsuo Kirino
In the real world, you can make your own miracles. — Richelle Mead
...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone… — Lynne Truss
This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen. — Richelle Mead
To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of… — Noam Chomsky
In the United States especially, politics and economics don’t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as… — Steven Levitt
We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a… — David Foster Wallace
What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of… — Cornelia Funke
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world,… — Nicholas Sparks
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that… — Lev Grossman
I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but… — Brandon Sanderson
Love in the real world doesn’t usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don’t always get fairy-tale endings. People split… — Richelle Mead
The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense… — Tahir Shah
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. — Jasper Fforde
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is… — Stephen King
But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child… — Sarah Dessen

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