Best 255 quotes in «real life quotes» category

In real life I'm a tall, blond Christian.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

I'm the least sexy person in real life.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

I appreciate the Surreal Life. I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldnt have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

It's always better to be real.

It is a surreal life living on a television series set, and especially when I go out in public. I have people who recognize me and will come up to me, saying how much they enjoy seeing me, asking for a picture, and I still think to myself, "Uh, why?

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.

Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship. That's it.

When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare

A hundred years ago, this City[...]'s energy production, its food and fuel, came from all over the world, often traveling thousands of miles. People used energy just to ship more energy to the places that needed it. When you’re high on fossil fuel fumes, I guess almost anything can make sense.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

And naturally, everything they tell about in books can happen in real life, but not in the same way. It is to this way of happening that I clung so tightly.

And when had a critical eye ever helped me, really? Nobody likes the girl who points out all the inherent sexism on The Bachelor. But people are charmed byt the girl kvelling about nail art, boba tea, and the homeopathic benefits of ayahuasca.

Anyone who knows more than me in a certain area is an expert compared to me.

A real definition of life lies in our daily thoughts and the steps we take to or away from what is distinctive and noble.

[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships.

A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life

A vida real não nos concede muitas possibilidades mais do que úteis que as pessoas podem ter na ficção.

Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.

As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart. To each of them it seemed that the life he led was the only real life, and the one his friend led was a mere illusion.

Being poor, living in poverty, seemed a lot like probation - the crime being a lack of means to survive.

By their actions, they will show you who they are.

But by the time you’ve worked long enough, hard enough, Real Life (which insists on being capitalized as if it were a personage with a proper name and a right to barge into this rental unit called your life) begins to reveal itself as something other than effort, other than accomplishment. Real Life wishes to be left to its own purposeless devices.

But you don’t really mean to say that you couldn’t love me if my name wasn’t Ernest? GWENDOLEN: But your name is Ernest. JACK: Yes, I know it is. But supposing it was something else? Do you mean to say you couldn’t love me then? GWENDOLEN (glibly): Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them.

C'est un vieil homme auquel on ne peut plus donner d'âge, sec, boucané, fripé comme des pommes reinettes oubliées sur les planches d'un fruitier, mais qui garde encore, sous leur peau ridée, une chair ferme et saine.

Child, use your brain. Think on your feet. Being polite and reserved is how we were raised, but we learned the hard way that the rest of the world isn't that way. I've perceived from conversation that you comprehend such things, like that swordplay with whatsit... that Titmouse, or whatever his name was. In other words, child, propriety has its place, but don't let your guard down. In real life, you never know who the plagers of Intrigue really are, or what they stand for.

Dance is the art closest to nature, to real life.

David started to sense acute paranoia, it was tangible, seeping from their pores. They felt themselves isolated and vulnerable, they couldn’t be trusted to be anything like rational. They hadn’t been at the meeting on Ames yacht, David told himself. They hadn’t seen how everything had hung in the balance, the whole plan. They had made the same mistake as most conspiracy theorists, the dispossessed and uninitiated, who concoct their viewpoints from the outside, with limited data – they had assumed everything was under control and running like clockwork.

Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests].