Best 255 quotes in «real life quotes» category

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

It is a surreal life living on a television series set, and especially when I go out in public. I have people who recognize me and will come up to me, saying how much they enjoy seeing me, asking for a picture, and I still think to myself, "Uh, why?

It's always better to be real.

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

A hundred years ago, this City[...]'s energy production, its food and fuel, came from all over the world, often traveling thousands of miles. People used energy just to ship more energy to the places that needed it. When you’re high on fossil fuel fumes, I guess almost anything can make sense.

You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship. That's it.

Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare

And naturally, everything they tell about in books can happen in real life, but not in the same way. It is to this way of happening that I clung so tightly.

And when had a critical eye ever helped me, really? Nobody likes the girl who points out all the inherent sexism on The Bachelor. But people are charmed byt the girl kvelling about nail art, boba tea, and the homeopathic benefits of ayahuasca.

Anyone who knows more than me in a certain area is an expert compared to me.

A real definition of life lies in our daily thoughts and the steps we take to or away from what is distinctive and noble.

[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships.

As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart. To each of them it seemed that the life he led was the only real life, and the one his friend led was a mere illusion.

A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life

Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.

A lot of churches and church people give God a bad name. There's a scripture in the Bible that says the traditions of men make the word of God of none effect. That's so true. All our religious rituals dilute the reality of who God is and make a lot of people not want to have anything to do with Him. I had to learn to reject 'Churchianity' and not Christianity.

But you don’t really mean to say that you couldn’t love me if my name wasn’t Ernest? GWENDOLEN: But your name is Ernest. JACK: Yes, I know it is. But supposing it was something else? Do you mean to say you couldn’t love me then? GWENDOLEN (glibly): Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them.

A vida real não nos concede muitas possibilidades mais do que úteis que as pessoas podem ter na ficção.

Being poor, living in poverty, seemed a lot like probation - the crime being a lack of means to survive.

But by the time you’ve worked long enough, hard enough, Real Life (which insists on being capitalized as if it were a personage with a proper name and a right to barge into this rental unit called your life) begins to reveal itself as something other than effort, other than accomplishment. Real Life wishes to be left to its own purposeless devices.

C'est un vieil homme auquel on ne peut plus donner d'âge, sec, boucané, fripé comme des pommes reinettes oubliées sur les planches d'un fruitier, mais qui garde encore, sous leur peau ridée, une chair ferme et saine.

Dance is the art closest to nature, to real life.

By their actions, they will show you who they are.

Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests].

Child, use your brain. Think on your feet. Being polite and reserved is how we were raised, but we learned the hard way that the rest of the world isn't that way. I've perceived from conversation that you comprehend such things, like that swordplay with whatsit... that Titmouse, or whatever his name was. In other words, child, propriety has its place, but don't let your guard down. In real life, you never know who the plagers of Intrigue really are, or what they stand for.

Do not avoid the stairs because they are really good exercises for the real life!

Don't cross the boundaries.

Det var tomt i kiosken. Kan en disk satt en tjukk olding av en dame. Far hadde gitt meg en femtilapp. Feriepenger kalte han det. Det blir ikke mye ferie for femti kroner - Dronningen av Arne Berggren

Don’t complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering

Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood

Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.

Do you know why we show respect to life when it shows none to us? Family is the answer