To Be Real Quotes

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
- Victoria Abril

Love has to be reciprocated for it to be real.
- Alexandra Adornetto

The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
- Isabel Allende

Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away.
- Will Arnett

The world is filled with too many of us who are inclined to indicate our love with an announcement or declaration. True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time.
- Marvin J Ashton

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin 'freely'- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
- Jane Austen

We can all begin freelya slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
- Jane Austen

...but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
- Jane Austen

There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement
- Jane Austen

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.
- James Baldwin

To be really medieval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
- Oscar Wilde

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
- Oscar Wilde

To be really mediaeval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
- Oscar Wilde

Well, we better be quick and not become human popsicles. I'm going to be really upset at you if I freeze to death. (Shahara)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

So you're telling me that right now I'm responsible for Acheron's beloved pet and the favorite sister of the Fates? (Zarek)
Tell Fang-boy I'm not a pet. If he doesn't take a nicer tone to me, he's going to be really sorry. (Simi)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

You mean there's someone out there better than your father? (Quills)
No, idiot. My father trained him. Just FYI, my father is also his godfather. So you want to be real nice to Dev. All of us take it personally when people aren't. (Adron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
- Ann Beattie

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.
- Sylvester Stallone

But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.
- E M Forster

I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest.
- Emily Blunt

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.
- Elayne Boosler

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
- Ray Bradbury

Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
- Ray Bradbury

Let me alone, said Mildred. I didn't do anything.
Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. how long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
- Ray Bradbury

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.
- Jordana Brewster

We cannot know the future, nor can we change it,...It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the time we have been given. So let us treasure it while we can.
- Geraldine Brooks

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
- James L Brooks

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.
- Jerry Brown

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.
- Nicholas Sparks

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mahatma Gandhi

unity to be real must survive the severest strain without breaking.
- Mahatma Gandhi

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.
- Grant Morrison

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
- Anthony Burgess

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered--sometimes it seemed to take forever--went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
- Bernard Malamud

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.
- Suzanne Collins

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say.
"Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.
- Suzanne Collins

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
- Tucker Carlson

I can't wait to get out. It's been much too long, I don't like being home. I'd rather play. This tour is going to be really big. We're gonna have the biggest show we can have. It's gonna be different not like the old KISS shows.
- Eric Carr

As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.
- Stephen King

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.
- Cher

But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.
- Christo

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
- Tom Clancy

I want to tell Tobet about when i was standing in this exact same place last summer, wishing for him to be real. But it's hard to remember life before Tobey. He makes eveything seem possible. Like whatever you feel is true, really true in your heart, you can make happen. And you just know, when it happens, its for real. And there are a million possibilities.
Like the possibility of going separate ways.
Together.
- Susane Colasanti

Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
- Terry Pratchett

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.
- Anderson Cooper

I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

They've got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special.
- Deborah Cox

Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back... then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.
- Sarah Cross

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.
- Peter Cushing

I happen to be really a romantic.
- Amanda Seyfried

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.
- Anthony J Dangelo

I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.
- Beth Daniel

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.
- Peter Maxwell Davies

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green
If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
- John Green

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.
- John Green

It doesn't matter how long we've used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooksat least so farare fairly limited in their awesomeness.
- John Green

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.
- Bruce Dern

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.
- Sarah Dessen

It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live--exist or whatever--in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one.
- Elaine Dundy

And right action is freedom from past and future also.
For most of us, this is the aim never to be realized. Who are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. The Dry Salvages
- T S Eliot

Do I even know how to be real?
- Simone Elkeles

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.
- Ralph Ellison

I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.
- Will Estes

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.
- Jon Favreau

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
- Garrett Fort

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'
- Dana Fox

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.
- Sigmund Freud

There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books.
-Then where is it to be found?-
In love. In the laughter of children. In a gift given. In a life saved. In the quiet of morning. In the dead of night. In the sound of the ocean, or the sound of a car. It can be found in anything, anywhere. It is the fabric of our lives, our feelings, the people we live with, things we know to be real.
- James Frey

We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.
- Hayden Fry

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.
- Neil Gaiman

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let it teach you Being.
Let it teach you integrity which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.
Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
- Eckhart Tolle

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
- Jerry Garcia

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
- Richard Gere

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
- Khalil Gibran

It's 85 million dollars and they got to be really careful because they are going to need me.
- Terry Gilliam

You were born, and with you endless possibilities - very few ever to be realized. It's okay. Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do.
- Richelle E Goodrich

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
- Joseph Gordonlevitt

I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.
- Simon R Green

Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But... maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.
- Laurell K Hamilton

Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.
- Laurell K Hamilton

I didn't ever think you were a freak. I think...I thought you were magic or something. I thought that you were too perfect to be real.
- Cynthia Hand

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.
- Kathleen Hanna

Great. We can pick out our colors."
"What?"
"For the wedding. I'm thinking melon and mint. Supposed to be really hot next spring."
Cal laughed out loud, the first time I'd ever heard him do that. "It's a plan. See ya, Sophie.
- Rachel Hawkins

I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that.
- Christina Hendricks

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.
- Ken Hensley

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!
- Werner Herzog

To be really honest, I think if anybody did derive comfort from the fact that 'there's always someone worse off than yourself,' they'd have to be a pretty sad and sick individual. If I've sprained my wrist, I'm not made happier by the thought that someone somewhere has broken their leg!
- Stuart Hill

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
- Hubert H Humphrey

I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.
- Siri Hustvedt

Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
- Victoria Jackson

I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.
- Jim Jarmusch

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
- Steve Jobs

Young people want you to be real with them.
- Magic Johnson

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
- James Earl Jones

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
- Mother Teresa

Love to be real, it must costit must hurtit must empty us of self.
- Mother Teresa

Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.
- Lindsey Kelk

Voiceover excited me and terrified me. I thought I was going to be really bad at it. It was so freeing and fun to not have to wait for 10 minutes between every setup. They just throw you a direction, and you just say it.
- Anna Kendrick

I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.
- Anna Kendrick

I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I hate myself, bitterly it's too late yet while I feel better I still feel ephemeral and unreal and unable to straighten my thoughts or even really grieve, in fact I feel too stupid to be really bitter, in short I don't know what I'm doing and I'm being told what to do..
- Jack Kerouac

History teaches us things about ourselves, but you have to listen for the lessons. You have to be really still to hear the whispers.
- Amber Kizer

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
- Tobias Wolff

Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.
- William Kunstler

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a 'dream' is going crazy.
- R D Laing

To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. "I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future," he wrote. "In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.
- Erik Larson

I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.
- D H Lawrence

Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.
- Jay Leno

That's what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That's what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.
- Ira Levin

What's it like to be really dead, I wonder. Tell me about it, won't you Dave?"
"It's like being alive", he replied. "Only different."
"What do you do for kicks?", she asked.
"No kicks", he replied, shaking her head.
- Tom Lichtenberg

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
- Loretta Lynn

I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside would realize that it wasn't on its own and that it had to come out.
- Sarra Manning

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!
- Ricky Martin

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.
- Rachel Mcadams

to be real--to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate.
- Tom Mccarthy

Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.
- Mitch Mcconnell

To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.
- Reba Mcentire

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.
- Bobby Mcferrin

You make me want to be a better man," Danny said. "You make me want to be worthy of you, Miller. But if that's ever going to stick, if it's ever going to be real, I have to do it for me. I can't do it just because its who you need me to be. It has to be who I need to be too.
- Brooke Mckinley

They'd scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own termsnot just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.
- Paula Mclain

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)
- Thomas Merton

Maria loved the way she and Liz could just sit in the same room together, each doing their own thing, sometimes talking, sometimes not. You had to be really good friends with someone before it felt this comfortable to basically ignore them for long stretches of time.
- Melinda Metz

But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.
- Jude Morgan

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
- Joanna Newsom

Yet there was something gratifyingly real about being called a bitch, a whore, a blond tramp. Where so much was a dreamy haze, anything promising to be real was bracing.
- Joyce Carol Oates

I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
- Michelle Obama

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
- Osho

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?
- Brad Paisley

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.
- Austin Peck

...the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.
- Robert M Pirsig

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
- Parker Posey

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
- Dawn Powell

You've got to be realistic.
- Patrick Rafter

I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down.
- Christie Rampone

It's going to be really weird when I'm 80 years old, in a walker, and people are still calling me America's sweetheart. We need a new one.
- Mary Lou Retton

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.
- Chris Robinson

What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is supposed to be rigor and the acquisitiveness that is supposed to be realism are making us forget the origins of the greatness we lay claim to - power and wealth as secondary consequences of the progress of freedom, or, as Whitman would prefer, Democracy?
- Marilynne Robinson

I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.
- Axl Rose

Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.
- Joe Sakic

Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.
- Zoe Saldana

I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
- Sheryl Sandberg

Yeah, I try to be really calm.
- Gus Van Sant

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.
- George Saunders

I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.
- Elizabeth Scott

I wants us to be real. I want to be just you and me.
- Ryan
- Elizabeth Scott

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
- Vin Scully

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other
- Tupac Shakur

I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.
- Ron Silver

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.
- Ron Silver

... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.
- Dodie Smith

I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese - big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I'm eating grilled cheese sandwiches and french fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face.
- Wesley Snipes

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.
- Layne Staley

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
- Ezra Stiles

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.
- Graham Taylor

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
- E P Thompson

If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.
- Justin Timberlake

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.
- Mary Timony

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
- Ike Turner

I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.
- Liv Tyler

Even if you've taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It's hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn't being naked, not really. It's just showing skin.
- Catherynne M Valente

When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.
- Cynthia Voigt

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic. (p. 66)
- Jo Walton

Cursing herself, she said, I'm going to man up here. I'm going to so be twenty-one. You're not going to believe how tight in the head I'm going to be. Really. For real.
- J R Ward

I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves.
- Kerry Washington

Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.
- Alfred North Whitehead

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.
- Bradley Whitford

There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really careful about knowing what cash flows are supporting your investments.
- Meredith Whitney

Seems like it's going to be really hard to make money at it, and, therefore, really hard to get any great games done. Much like Flash games, the audience is huge, but the content isn't likely to be good enough to have people pay for it.
- Mike Wilson

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
- Gene Wolfe

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic..
- Bob Woodward

I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
- Zhang Ziyi