Real World Quotes

622 Real World quotes by 517 unique authors

I lived too much in my head instead of the real world. — Sara Zarr
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you… — David Eddings
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she… — Chuck Palahniuk
The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old… — Malcolm Gladwell
We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is,… — Carl Sagan
A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that… — Lisa Kleypas
He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend. — Pittacus Lore
A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other way round, Princess.… — Melina Marchetta
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role… — Haruki Murakami
I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a… — Haruki Murakami
We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day… — Steven Pressfield
A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and… — Robert Muchamore
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real… — Haruki Murakami
I wanted a do over. A time machine. That magic wand. But real life didn't have any easy outs, and very few happily-ever-afters. The real… — Rachel Vincent
What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all… — Bo Burnham
It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine. — Alison Goodman
We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals… — Ned Vizzini
College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read.… — Grant Morrison
The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with… — Daniel Handler
… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this… — Miranda July
I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I… — Ernest Cline
It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other an never touching; the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good… — Lauren Oliver
The real world is much smaller than the imaginary — Friedrich Nietzsche
Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait… — Fannie Flagg

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