Realised Quotes - Page 4

• I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

  James Stewart

  Moving, Trying, Desperation

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• I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work.

  John Dyer

  Wanted, Ifs

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• I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Found, Make Me Happy

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• I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was a bonus. I studied for a diploma with the London College of Music, and teaching was something I thought I might do but comedy intervened.

  Bill Bailey

  Fun, Teaching, College

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back and looked around in panic. I prayed to God and relaxed. I realised if I turned carefully on my front I could see bits of grass to hold on to.

  Ivor Cutler

  Scotland, Mountain, Sides

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• Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.

  Wernher von Braun

  Simple, Vision, Utopian

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• I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Taken, Important, Safe

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.41, Random House

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• I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said. Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked. 'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth. And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth.

  Melina Marchetta

  Night, Ice, Ideas

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• I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount of syllables and the right amount of words, in the right rhyme scheme and you put it all together. You make words just bounce of a page.

  Taylor Swift

  School, Together, Pages

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• I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.

  Ted Hughes

  Thinking, People, World

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• Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.

  Steig Larsson

  Punishment, Feelings, Firsts

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• I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

  Markus Zusak

  Waiting, Standing There, Persons

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• When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Peeta" I said "Stay with me" I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always

  Suzanne Collins

  Said, Stay With Me, Heard

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• He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.

  Nora Roberts

  Boys, Men, Humanity

  Nora Roberts (1998). “Sea Swept”, p.17, Penguin

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• I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

  Jeff Kinney

  Taken, Ideas, Born

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid book 6)”, p.120, Penguin UK

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• But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

  Caitlin Moran

  Years, Want, Honest

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• It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

  Suketu Mehta

  Dream, Country, Cities

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• I realised you owned me one night in this room. I was singing to you and you were sleeping. You made a little noise in your sleep like you were distressed and I panicked and ran to your side. You grabbed my arm in your sleep and pulled it up against your face and went back to sleep. I didn't want to ever move.

  Abbi Glines

  Moving, Sleep, Night

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• Last winter, when so many Living joined the Dead and our prey became scarce, I watched some of my friends become full-dead. The transition was undramatic. They just slowed down, then stopped, and after a while I realised they were corpses. It disquieted me at first, but it’s against etiquette to notice when one of us dies. I distracted myself with some groaning.

  Isaac Marion

  Winter, Transition, Lasts

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you’ve realised that no one else has a clue what they’re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.

  Caitlin Moran

  Depressing, Art, Mean

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• Are you really going to work in that?" Maura asked. Blue looked at her clothing. It involved a few thin layering shirts, including one she had altered using a method called shredding. "What's wrong with it?" Maura shrugged. "Nothing. I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realised how well my evil plans were working.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Daughter, Blue, Evil

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)”, p.34, Scholastic Inc.

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• I wasn't a huge fan of the comic book, but I definitely was of the cartoon series. I wasn't much for sitting around and reading as a kid, I preferred to be outside running around and playing sports, but I was absolutely thrilled to get the role of Colossus. I don't think I realised how popular the character was until I got the role and started doing some research; it was then that I really fell in love with the character of Colossus myself.

  Daniel Cudmore

  Sports, Running, Book

  Source: me.askmen.com

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• I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.

  Brian Molko

  Sex, Confused, Mean

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• There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Country, Fall

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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