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Quotes About Real

I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.
~ Carolyn Mackler
And this, ladies and gentlemoons, is how my whole new Star Wars adventure began! Like an acid flashback, only intergalactic, in the moment, and essentially real!
~ Carrie Fisher
Emotions are real, just not the reasons behind them.
~ Carrie Jones
'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.
~ Carrie Preston
Love in full life and length, not love ideal, No, nor ideal beauty, that fine name, But something better still, so very real...
~ George Gordon Byron
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
~ George Henry Lewes
Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.
~ George Lakoff
That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ser Loras lusts for glory as real men lust for women, the least the gods can do is grant him a death worthy of a song.
~ George R.R. Martin
This is an evil dream, she thought. But if she were dreaming, why did it hurt so much? She tried to ask the shadows, but they did not answer. Perhaps they did not hear her. Perhaps they were not real.
~ George R.R. Martin
His passion was a tragedy for all of us, but it was real, and pure, and nothing to be made mock of.
~ George R.R. Martin
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
~ George Santayana
You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
~ George Stanley McGovern
By the way, if you don't know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music.
~ George Takei
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country
~ George Washington
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
~ George Washington
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.
~ Georges Bataille
and I'm disgusted with dreams now — I want real things — live people to take hold of — to see — and to talk to — music that makes holes in the sky.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
~ Douglas Jerrold
Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.
~ Mother Teresa
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.
~ Marcus Aurelius
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him, even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
~ Colette
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against real life. But I think there are signs that strange things happen, though they do not emerge
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
I hope I helped, but I have to tell you this sort of thing is a lot more exciting, and a lot less emotionally wearing, in a book than it is in real life." "You got that right.
~ J.D. Robb