Real Quotes - Page 387

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.

Americans are finally realizing that once you lose land, you can't get it back.

I hate the whole concept of comfort!

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.

When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.

The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance.

I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.

In the 1930s, there was a stretch where you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for. I think that's what's going on in today's private-equity world.

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

I'm able to express myself better now. I have come to accept the real me. I have come to love the real me. I now celebrate the real me.

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current events. I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. Paying attention to social interactions offline really inform interactions online. The real world is a bottomless source of inspiration for what you can build.

A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane. "Dumbledore would totally win," said the first one. "He has the badass Killing Curse." The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. "But Dumbledore isn't real." "I don't think Magnus Bane is real either," scoffed the first. "Have you ever met him?" "This is so weird," said Clary, slinking down in her seat. "Are you listening to them?" "No. It's rude to eavesdrop," said Jace.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.