Real Quotes - Page 609

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those-who-have.

Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is not the English spoken in England or in America or even in Canada or Australia or New Zealand. The real English is the English which is a second language, so that it's rather like Latin in the days of the Roman Empire when people had their own languages, but had Latin in order to communicate.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less artificial expedients. Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built.

Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.

It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.

Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

I have a production company, and we work with reality TV producers 44 Blue. They asked if we'd like to get involved. When they explained that it was the first transgender modeling agency, we said, "Yeah, of course!"