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Quotes About Actual

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
~ Mason Cooley
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
Get your product in front of actual, living, breathing strangers. Your college roommate's approval does not mean there's market demand.
~ Kathryn Minshew
When we use statistics, the less we rely on the actual numbers the better. The numbers inform us about the underlying relationship, but there are better ways to illustrate the underlying relationship than the numbers themselves.
~ Chip Heath
It's as large as life and twice as natural.
~ Lewis Carroll
Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.
~ Chiaki Kuriyama
The most perfect synthesis of theory and practice is the vanishing of thought into the actual course of the world.
~ Jean Baudrillard
What ever-sharper, real-time data about people's actual listening behavior do is more strongly reinforce the feedback loop.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
~ Unknown
aim is to encourage our daughters to consider the actual hazards of risk taking, not the logistics of defying authority.
~ Unknown
Still, clichés exist to comfort the feebleminded, not to provide any actual meaning.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.
~ Bill Haslam
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
~ David Hare
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
~ J. G. Ballard
Witherspoon is a gangster, a cheat, and a God damn liar, but he is of very little actual importance; merely a boodling nincompoop.
~ David Gerrold
I didn't really get involved too heavily with being an actual film person.
~ Kenny Baker
It's nearly impossible to enforce actual consequences in video games at the moment, but at a table, sitting face-to-face across a tabletop game, or even playing at a LAN party, sportsmanship matters.
~ Wil Wheaton
A tumbleweed went rolling by in the street. I'm not even kidding. An actual, literal tumbleweed. Man, Oklahoma.
~ Jim Butcher
When you're down and feeling low, violent activity helps. Actual violence itself seems to help my attitude to no end.
~ Unknown
The virtual is opposed not to the real but to the actual. The virtual is fully real in so far as it is virtual.
~ Gilles Deleuze
You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual - which nothing is more actual than stand-up - it's a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time - we miss that.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it…. It leaves everything as it is.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!
~ John Banville
We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams.
~ Don DeLillo