The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.
‐‐ Ann Voskamp
The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.
‐‐ Paul Guilfoyle
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
‐‐ Felix Frankfurter
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
‐‐ Max Lerner
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
‐‐ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
‐‐ David Copperfield
The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado.
‐‐ Demian Bichir
The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
‐‐ Mason Cooley
The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.
‐‐ Steven Adler
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
‐‐ Katherine Anne Porter
The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
‐‐ Tony Snow
The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
‐‐ Carol Bellamy
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
‐‐ Swami Sivananda
The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter and verse of chapter and verse - from both the King James Bible and 'The Lord of the Rings.'
‐‐ Kevin Bleyer
The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they're going to want their apartments and homes. And that's when you'll start to see a recovery in home prices.
‐‐ Jamie Dimon
The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg
The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
‐‐ Magic Johnson
The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg
The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.
‐‐ John Podhoretz
The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.
‐‐ Bobby Locke
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll
The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser.
‐‐ Gordon Gould
The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.
‐‐ Sandra Bernhard
The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.
‐‐ Neil Peart
The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day it took everything that I knew as an anchor, as a citizen, as a father, as a husband, to get through it.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw
The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy
The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
‐‐ Germaine Greer
The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.
‐‐ Tony Randall
The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life.
‐‐ Robin Marantz Henig
The real threat comes from terrorism.
‐‐ Francois Hollande
The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.
‐‐ Dave Barry
The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.
‐‐ Arthur Quiller-Couch
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
‐‐ Adam Smith
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
‐‐ Brian De Palma
The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
‐‐ Erle Stanley Gardner
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
‐‐ Ezra Pound
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.
‐‐ Roseanne Barr
The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.
‐‐ Jon Voight
The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle
The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.
‐‐ John Brunner
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.
‐‐ Guy Davenport
The real victims of men are other men.
‐‐ Gloria Emerson
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
‐‐ Marcel Proust
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi
The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.
‐‐ Cameron Russell
The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer.
‐‐ Tony Scott
The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.
‐‐ Ken MacLeod