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Quotes About Real

But my animals are real animals, and they behave as animals usually do. It's really the humans who do strange things. Animals are predictable. Humans, never.
~ Ruskin Bond
It was the sort of situation that would be ever so charming and warmly human in a film with Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith but that sort of film is only charming because they leave out so many details, and real life is all the details they leave out.
~ Russell Hoban
And what's happening now? My real heart, why does it hurt? I think it wants to break open too. That must be my heart's way of making room for all the love the world still has to give" -Ruthie
~ Ruth Behar
tiles in the hearth at number 6, real pot tiles
~ Ruth Hamilton
Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation, as against an interchange of instructions and acquiescences, in which reference to the printed word is not made or in which the implications of something read do not occur.
~ Ruth Rendell
Believing in love isn't like believing in flying reindeer. It's like believing in rain. Or summer. Or Christmas. Love is real and steady and absolutely essential to any kind of life. Not believing in it doesn't make it any less so.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
an introduction to Christian pluralism and the intellectual riches of the Christian tradition, but also to intellectual pluralism. I realized that there were no definitely settled ways of seeing life—of what is, what is real, and how, then, we should live. The notion that there was one "right" way of seeing things disappeared. This was enormously liberating, even if a bit alarming. But my curiosity was greater than my fear.
~ Marcus J. Borg
Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
And it's not the real Elvis you need to resemble, it's the imitation Elvises. Not hard to look like one of them.
~ Margaret Atwood
Tu cau?i str?lucire, eu caut aur veritabil.
~ Margaret Mitchell
In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.
~ Mark Cuban
Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
~ Barbara Kruger
To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.
~ Alexander Elder
Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.
~ Eleanor Duckworth
Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget, Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.
~ Jeru the Damaja
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
~ Giorgio Armani
La experiencia real es el conocimiento
~ Anne McCaffrey
He actually cared. It was an odd friendship- awkward, grown slowly from beginnings of mutual contempt- but it was real nonetheless.
~ Anne Perry
The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world. I feel a great surge of energy when I acknowledge that there is a world beyond this one.
~ Anne Rice
I saw in him a species of fear as real as that which I had seen in the young forest, but it was even more innocent for all his age, and all his wrinkles, and the wetness of his lips with the wine. He looked fatigued by that which he couldn't comprehend.
~ Anne Rice
I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take a deep breath, I open my eyes. Looking, I see there are worms in the horns of the altar like live maggots in amber, there are shells of worms in the rock and moths flapping at my eyes. A wind from no place rises. A sense of the real exults me; the cords loosen: I walk on my way.
~ Annie Dillard
Aya, that's the barking strangest thing about battle - that it's real
~ Scott Westerfeld
Novelists are evil psychopomps, basically. We treat a few characters as real, but the rest of them are cannon fodder.
~ Scott Westerfeld