All Quotes

A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before they were doing comedy. Comedy has been relevant for years. It's the same art form, pretty much. Discovering that and applying it, I think that has made my stand-up better.
‐‐ Jay Pharoah

A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
‐‐ Charles Ives

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.
‐‐ Jimmy Reid

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
‐‐ Kent Beck

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
‐‐ Lance Morrow

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
‐‐ Jessamyn West

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
‐‐ Jack Vance

A reader's eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.
‐‐ Donald E. Graham

A reader's own imagination is a far more powerful form of CGI than anything any movie can provide because it's unique. In your own imagination, you can enter all sorts of worlds, and they are unique to you because no other reader will interpret a book the same way.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.
‐‐ John Christopher

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
‐‐ Marcus Garvey

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.
‐‐ Jon Secada

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
‐‐ Billy Graham

A real collector does not sell.
‐‐ Eli Broad

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.
‐‐ David Whyte

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
‐‐ Tony Robbins

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.
‐‐ Trygve Lie

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.
‐‐ Duncan Sheik

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
‐‐ Fyodor Dostoevsky

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
‐‐ Robert Benchley

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

A real job is a job you hate.
‐‐ Bill Watterson

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.
‐‐ Melissa Pritchard

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
‐‐ Frank Abagnale

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
‐‐ R. L. Stine

A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
‐‐ Bill Vaughan

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
‐‐ Sholom Aleichem

A real thank you does not come by e-mail. They come in the mail in an envelope. And what comes out of an envelope is a beautiful thing to touch and to handle and to pass around for everyone to read.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige

A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
‐‐ Patrick Chappatte

A real woman is someone who knows what she wants. If you want to stay home, that's fine, but you have to be clear-eyed.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
‐‐ Arthur Symons

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.
‐‐ Abdolkarim Soroush

A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

A really first-class company uses really fine stationery.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige

A really good detective never gets married.
‐‐ Raymond Chandler

A really good horror film has a story.
‐‐ Dee Wallace

A really good impressionist, even if they don't look at all like the person they're impersonating, it's a weird thing where they start to look like that person. It's kind of odd.
‐‐ Ato Essandoh

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.
‐‐ Helen Frankenthaler

A really good poem is full of music.
‐‐ Eric Whitacre

A really good uniformed cop has tremendous people skills, and they learn how to read people.
‐‐ Titus Welliver