Real Quotes - Page 36

• All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Magic, Garcia Marquez

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

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• I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Hands, Criminals

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Economized love is never real love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Heart, Love Is

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• You get all excited to give her the ring, and it's real emotional, and you give it to her, and she cries. And a second later, you're like, 'Damn, I could have had a car.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Emotional

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• So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Challenges, Problem

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.

  Marc Jacobs

  People, Ego, Together

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I've got two little girls, I'm not scared about sex. I'll teach them, it's not going to kill them. But what could kill them is violence. Guns, drinking and driving, these are the real dangers in our society.

  William H. Macy

  Girl, Sex, Drinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• God is the Source of real love, joy, peace, wisdom and everything else we all need to be the people He has created us to be.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Joy, Needs

  Source: www.daystar.com

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• I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.

  Patti Smith

  School, White, Ties

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real mean. I like reading bad stuff, it gets me excited. In fact, the only reviews I keep are the bad ones 'cause I think they're the cool ones.

  Patti Smith

  Believe, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.

  Greg Pak

  Crazy, Character, Emotional

  "New Hulk Revealed, Will We See Him in a Marvel Movie?". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 4, 2015.

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• Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Foundation, Deceit, Violence

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1938). “Cent per cent Swadeshi: or, The economics of village industries”

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• My most interesting memory is of my first real dream. I was a caterpillar, wriggling around in the earth, just the way a caterpillar would. Following my caterpillar whims, completely unaware of anyone.

  Zhuangzi

  Dream, Memories, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Yet I'm making a book and I'm going to care immensely about what words get bound in the pages, and I want the object to look good. I won't believe in it and it won't be real to me until there's a finished book I can hold.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Believe, Book, Looks

  Interview with Peter Andrey Smith, www.believermag.com. May 2012.

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• I think sometimes it's hard to know what you feel, or to know what's real and what's not, because love or hate or any feeling is a belief. You can say you hate someone, but you don't truly know them.

  Charlyne Yi

  Hate, Thinking, Feelings

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Life is short. You die before you think you're going to. Don't waste it in college unless you're doing something real. My view.

  Tucker Carlson

  Life Is Short, College, Thinking

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2005.

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• I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.

  Keith Rabois

  People, Details, Matter

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• What would happen if people practiced openness and honesty? If people talked about their real challenges without shame or fear of rejection? My guess is that people would feel less alone and isolated. People would be willing to share more, and as a result, society would feel more connected to each other and their experiences.

  Deborah Reber

  Honesty, People, Rejection

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• When a society doesn't know what to do with its young, it's in real trouble. When the young don't know what to do with society - at the very least, revolutions start there.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Revolution, Trouble, Young

  Interview with Alex Park, www.believermag.com. July 2013.

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• You have to be strong. You have to know how you are, and you have to know who your partner is and you have to know who your friends, who your real friends are.

  Fergie

  Strong, Partners, Knows

  "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.

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• The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you're smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It's like, this is my real life.

  Faith Hill

  Running, Kids, Doors

  "We Love Faith Hill". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2006.

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• It's very important to distinguish between what most people in the West think about knowledge, and what the Indian concept of knowledge is. In the West the knowledge is something that is tangible, is material, it is something that can be transferred easily, can be bought and sold; or as in India real knowledge is something that is a living being - is a Vidya.

  Robert Svoboda

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: wildyogi.info

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• The good thing about my fans is that they like when I'm awkward and real, so I'm able to just go on stage and be my dorky self.

  Tori Kelly

  Self, Awkward, Fans

  Source: www.pop-buzz.com

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• Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

  Sam Altman

  Worry, Thumbs, Competitors

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, 1pdf.net. September 25, 2014.

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