Realising Quotes - Page 24

• Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

  Will Self

  Wake Up, Useless, Violence

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• If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Horse, Passion, Eye

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (2005). “My Discovery of America”

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• Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real

  Robert Mugabe

  Girl, Real, Looks

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• If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Important, And Love

  "The life and loves of a he-devil" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• It's like your whole life you 've been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catches you. And you realise that somehow you 've caught her at the same time. And together, instead of falling, you might be able to fly.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fall, Together, Earth

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• It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Kids, Games, Expected

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• As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.

  Victoria Legrand

  Depressing, Forever, Doe

  "Beach House and the curse of the big time". Interview with Sian Rowe, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

  Martha Wainwright

  Children, Dad, Night

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• The first period of getting famous was incredibly strange to me and really fun at the beginning because you didn't realise the consequences of anything. You could say or do whatever you wanted and it just didn't matter.

  Robert Pattinson

  Fun, Matter, Firsts

  "Robert Pattinson talks about fame, photography in 'Life'". Associated Press Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. September 22, 2015.

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• A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Girl, Art, Writing

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I would say my haters motivate me, as cliché as that may sound, but they really do. They make me realise how much of a lack of knowledge there is about my condition and people that are different. Because of their ignorance, I want to keep pushing forward and educating people.

  Harnaam Kaur

  Ignorance, People, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

  Leonard Hayflick

  Years, Evolution, Planets

  Leonard Hayflick (1994). “How and why we age”

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• When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it generally more cinematic. I would stick too closely to my own experience and not necessarily think about the fact that it needs to have an event happen. Realising that I could channel my own experience into a story that was slightly more cinematic was a very important moment for me - allowing myself to accept that the kind of screenwriting I'm doing is a work of fiction.

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, Thinking, Order

  The Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com. January 20, 2015.

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• I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Cost, Awful

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• I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad.  As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour.  Germany does not want war of any kind.  Germany wants real and abiding peace.

  Rudolf Hess

  Military, Real, War

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• When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

  Barkhad Abdi

  Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At times I ask myself if I shouldnt be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.

  Meredith Ostrom

  Jobs, Thinking, Planning

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• Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Dream, Differences, Expectations

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown

  Simon Hughes

  Sight, Crowds, Firsts

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• Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

  David Mitchell

  Travel, Loneliness, Thinking

  "Finding the route of inspiration". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2005.

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• Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.

  Lindi Ortega

  Song, Squares, Race

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• I do have a sense of fear every day going to work, but I think it's something that I like. I mean I do like the feeling of waking up on my own, having this moment of like: "Oh, f**k, I hope I can do this today!" Because it makes you realise that you're working with material or you're working with a director or you're working with a cast and they're keeping you on your toes.

  Charlize Theron

  Mean, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

  Celia Green

  History, Important, Lasts

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Women if you want to realise yourselves - you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval - all your pet illusions must be unmasked - the lies of centuries have got to go - are you prepared for the Wrench?

  Mina Loy

  Lying, Pet, Upheaval

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• I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.

  Michael Meacher

  Wall, Thinking, Race

  "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, www.theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.

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