Quotes About Discrepancy

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.

The image that is on screen is very different from who I am in real life.

I mean, look when you meet me in real life, I'm not the person you see on the Internet, as disappointing as that is.

I remember I took an editorial, and I was so excited. I got the pictures back, and I looked in the magazine, and I was like, 'Oh my gosh!' My arms were half their size, and I had a thigh gap magically, and all these crazy things. My family went out and tried to find my pictures in the magazines, but no one could recognize me.

If you Google St Petersburg, it shows you some amazing buildings. When you go there, you realise that there are a lot of grey depressing ones that aren't on Google.

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.

I sometimes buy the Daily Mail and hide it in my Guardian.

Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!

There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.

Un hombre honrado y un ladrón nunca pueden pensar igual.

scientific insight and furnished lodgings: the incompatibility

Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

To Ben's eye, there were no apparent signs of wealth, though he wasn't sure what he'd expected. Fountains?

What I want and what is true seldom have anything to do with each other

We were not in the same social class but at least we were at the same bed.

So aggressive was the manner in which this question was put that at first I thought the pair of them were probably drunk: a state which, in addition, the discrepancy between their respective heights for some reason quite illogically helped to suggest.

Their behaviour exemplified two different sides of life, in spite of some outward similarity in their tastes.

Life is so unlike theory.

Bloody heads and hearts, never match up, do they?

Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.

In many ways, Mitt Romney and I are very different. Different starts in life. Different paths to leadership. Different cultures.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

What they write in rule books and how things really work are never the same. We all learn that as we get older.