All Quotes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
‐‐ Rene Descartes

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
‐‐ Lord Byron

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.
‐‐ E. P. Thompson

The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.
‐‐ Richard V. Allen

The Reagan program is not working because the program is not fair - and, just as important, because the people themselves know it is not fair.
‐‐ Thomas P. O'Neill

The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

The Reagan years showed us that expanding economic freedom should be the North Star - the guiding light - of U.S. policy, because it is the best way to achieve sustained and broad-based prosperity for all.
‐‐ Jon Kyl

The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
‐‐ Imelda Marcos

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
‐‐ Lance Morrow

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
‐‐ Barry Commoner

The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
‐‐ Barbara De Angelis

The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
‐‐ Sam Rayburn

The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.
‐‐ John Tesh

The real aim of social and industrial organization ought to be the production of strong, healthy men and women, capable of playing and working with the least pain and the greatest joy.
‐‐ Charles A. Beard

The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
‐‐ Vince Gill

The real Amazons were long believed to be purely imaginary. They were the mythical warrior women who were the archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Every Greek hero or champion, from Hercules to Theseus and Achilles, had to prove his mettle by fighting a powerful warrior queen.
‐‐ Adrienne Mayor

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
‐‐ Isadora Duncan

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
‐‐ Adam Smith

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.
‐‐ Graham Swift

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
‐‐ Gustav Mahler

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.
‐‐ Alma Gluck

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
‐‐ Vince Gill

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
‐‐ Hans-Georg Gadamer

The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years.
‐‐ Ruud van Nistelrooy

The real bombs are my books, not me.
‐‐ Carlos Fuentes

The real boneheads are the libertarians.
‐‐ Peter Brimelow

The real boss in the family is my wife. She didn't want me hanging around the house all day and said, 'You don't want to retire; you'll regret it.' So I listened to her.
‐‐ Bill Gross

The real bottom line is, the national unions want their hands on the money.
‐‐ Scott Walker

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
‐‐ John L. Lewis

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.
‐‐ Paulina Porizkova

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
‐‐ Gilbert Parker

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
‐‐ Ernst Haeckel

The real challenge for a vegan is getting vitamin B and omega-3s, but you can get those in a vegetarian supplement.
‐‐ Emily Deschanel

The real challenge in doing a TV show is in what I would call the maintenance energy. You take that creative energy and you use it every week, of course. But you then need to maintain the quality of the stories, and it's harder to do.
‐‐ Chris Carter

The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.
‐‐ Charles Stross

The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
‐‐ Jack Black

The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that they demonstrate they can evacuate an aircraft within 90 seconds, but of course, a lot of stuff that is easy to do in training turns out to be tough in practice.
‐‐ Philip Greenspun

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back.
‐‐ James Mercer

The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
‐‐ L. Lionel Kendrick

The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something that depended not only on the three-month interest rate, but on other interest rates as well.
‐‐ John Hull

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
‐‐ Joshua Reynolds

The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.
‐‐ John Lydon

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.
‐‐ Allan Bloom

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
‐‐ Igor Stravinsky