Whats Real Quotes

The chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.
- Douglas Adams

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.
- Kate Adie

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
- William Albert Allard

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.
- Alejandro Amenabar

What's really good is African drum music.
- Fiona Apple

You told me you believed marriage was for other people."
"You're the only man who could make me believe that it's for me, too. Although when you get down to it, love is what's real. I still say marriage is just a piece of paper."
Jack smiled. "Let's find out," he said, and he pulled me down to the bed with him.
Jack & Ella
- Lisa Kleypas

I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real.
- Jay Asher

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.
- Jim Balsillie

You know when people say fine, it generally means 'leave me the hell alone because I don't want to talk about what's really bothering me.' (Susan)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

The only way to understand what's really fair is to take a long-range view of things.
- Haruki Murakami

I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?
- Haruki Murakami

What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have
- Haruki Murakami

Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.
- Amy Bloom

The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world.
- Alicia Keys

You've been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it's about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what's real.
-Going Bovine

- Libba Bray

Just concentrate on being in the moment", he said. "Don't read into things. See what's really there ok?
- Jennifer Brown

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
- Vincent Donofrio

Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.
- Deb Caletti

This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? And as for our own history, the parts that will be lost, who cares if a mathematician calls us dirty names like "unreal"? They say such slanders about the square root of minus two as well.
- Orson Scott Card

The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up.
- Suzanne Collins

Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up.
- Suzanne Collins

What I hope you'll remember, Grace-is that all your life there will be people who have more than you-and people who have less. Grace hung her head. What's really important,'Miss Louise went on to say,'are the connections you have with the people you love. Your family, your friends, Grace-truly, those are the things that matter. Those are the things that will always matter the most.
- Priscilla Cummings

Only in books do we learn what's really going on.
- Kurt Vonnegut

The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."
Bokonon's paraphrase was this:
"Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
- Kurt Vonnegut

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.
- Ellen Degeneres

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair - look at what's really there.
- Wendelin Van Draanen

I'll tell you what's real. Real is that I was in jail for the past year, rooming with drug dealers and eating crap food your dog wouldn't touch. Real is not being able to wear your own frickin' underwear and showering with twenty-five other dicks every day while guards watch. Real is my next-door neighbor who walks like she's balancing on stilts because her leg is so fucked up from the accident. Brian, your perception of reality is totally off.
- Simone Elkeles

I imagine crossing Grey Street in the daytime. Would night fall over me gently like a velvety curtain? Or would the day turn dark in the blink of my eye? I don't really need the sunrise to know that Shyness is different. It's like there is a thin layer of static over everything that stops me from seeing what's really going on. People here scuttle around like they're scared of their own shadows.
- Leanne Hall

...if there's a beast, maybe he's just a regular guy with a skin conditon or something. Maybe he just needs some understanding. Maybe we judge people to much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.
- Alex Flinn

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.
- Alex Flinn

...if there's a beast,maybe he's just a regular guy with a sin conditon or something. Maybe he just needs some understanding. Maybe we judge people to much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.
- Alex Flinn

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
- Calista Flockhart

Down the hall is Ms Englander's classroom. She teachers World Civilization. Her walls are covered with images from the Bible, Greek Mythology, and fairy tales. Passing by, I see Eve at the tree, Pandora, Bluebeard's wife. All those women in stories opening boxes they're not supposed to, peeking through doors to see what they shouldn't, eating forbidden fruit. They do it because they want to know what's really going on. They want to feel alive. Why are they always told no?
- Mariah Fredericks

I work all day, and get half drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain edges will grow light.
Till then I see what's really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
Making all thought impossible but how
And where and when I shall myself die.
- Philip Larkin

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
- Boy George

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.
- Joseph Gordonlevitt

Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.
- Karen White

I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what's really 'at stake,' but ultimately it's not about them - it's always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.
- Andrew Gross

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
- Jennifer Lopez

If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.
- Willie Herenton

What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.
- Bell Hooks

I think at the end of the day you have to find a balance with what's really important.
- Julianne Hough

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.
- Chris Hughes

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
- William Hurt

I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough!
- Lonnie Earl Johnson

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
- Andy Kaufman

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.
- Philip Kaufman

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
- Ken Kesey

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
- Victor Kiam

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
- Sue Monk Kidd

Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
- Queen Latifah

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.
- Charles De Lint

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
- Charles De Lint

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.
- Mario Vargas Llosa

I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.
- Sarah Manguso

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.
- Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
- Marilyn Manson

South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.
- Dave Matthews

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.
- Marissa Mayer

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
- Shigeru Miyamoto

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.
- Tom Morello

It's strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what's real and what's imaginary.
- Jason Mraz

That's the trouble with the world we live in. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really going on. Care about the rainforest until they get a couple of kids and enough money for a gas guzzling car, or some hardwood dining furniture. Watch all those wildlife programmes and coo over the furry animals, but still eat meat and poultry that was raised in conditions of unbelievable cruelty.
- Robert Muchamore

What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the mothers know they don't have to worry about sexual innuendo in the songs. The shows are family shows.
- Peter Noone

There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.
- Mehmet Oz

You know what's really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.
- Amanda Palmer

Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.
- Gwyneth Paltrow

When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what's real
- Stanley Victor Paskavich

Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true and what's fake, which isn't always easy. Books are like truth serum--if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.
- Rodman Philbrick

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.
- Rodman Philbrick

What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.
- Bobby Rahal

What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.
- Eddie Redmayne

That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.
- Philip Reeve

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.
- Henry Rollins

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
- David Lee Roth

Come on, " he said after a few seconds of content silence. "Let's go see the sights for a few hours. Pretend it's real."
Zane's brow wrinkled "Pretend what's real?"
Ty slid his hand down Zane's arm and linked their fingers again. "That I can hold your hand without worrying about being reconized.
- Abigail Roux

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
- Salman Rushdie

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.
- Gus Van Sant

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.
- Ron Silver

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
- Barry Sonnenfeld

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
- Sting

You can threaten a village wise woman with death and torture and she may say "jesus is lord" to survive, but you can never know what's really in her heart...that, I feel, is how the goddess survived centuries of history and hatred.
- Dianne Sylvan

How come everyone's making like everthing that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?
- Janne Teller

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.
- Carrie Vaughn

What's really fun is to write under different names.
- Tom Verlaine

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.
- Paul Walker

I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it?
- Rachel Weisz

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.
- Ricky Williams

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel