All Quotes

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.
‐‐ Michael Steele

The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully flooded.
‐‐ Ray Nagin

The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
‐‐ Salvatore J. Cordileone

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
‐‐ Dan Kaminsky

The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
‐‐ Pat Metheny

The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.
‐‐ Scott Bakula

The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world.
‐‐ Rob Dyrdek

The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
‐‐ Eliot Spitzer

The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

The reality of this Obamacare provision is that young adults will be forced to subsidize healthcare costs for older, financially stable, working-age Americans. At a time when 20-somethings face underemployment, record school debt and less economic opportunity, it is unfair to saddle them with this burden.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

The reality show 'America's Next Top Model' is my girlie pleasure.
‐‐ Estelle

The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They're out of control and have been for some time.
‐‐ Sara Ramirez

The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.
‐‐ Rand Paul

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.
‐‐ John Baldacci

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
‐‐ Jean Toomer

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.
‐‐ Ann Coulter

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.
‐‐ Nolan North

The really big challenge is delivering the social justice agenda in the Belfast Agreement, which hasn't been delivered.
‐‐ Mike Nesbitt

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.
‐‐ K. Eric Drexler

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

The really cool challenge of '24' was learning on camera how to be a dramatic actress. The biggest difficulty was the industry side of things. I was very lucky that I had Joel Surnow, one of the creators of '24,' in my corner. Early on, the Fox executives couldn't believe that I was on the show.
‐‐ Mary Lynn Rajskub

The really cool thing about festivals is that you're getting to play in front of a whole lot of people who have never heard of us before. That's exciting. At the same time, it's a little bit of a challenge to capture the attention of people who have already seen a lot of bands.
‐‐ Josh Dun

The really cool thing about when you're playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like.
‐‐ Josh McDermitt

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
‐‐ Laura Dern

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
‐‐ Doris Day

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
‐‐ John Cleese

The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.
‐‐ Kunal Nayyar

The really good thing about 'Sleepy Hollow' is you have no idea who's going to die when... But then equally, we showed in the pilot several people can come back to life, so you have no idea who's going to come back. Death means very little in our Sleepy Hollow, so expect more surprise deaths and more surprise resurrections.
‐‐ Tom Mison

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
‐‐ Andre Maurois

The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other, and then I can just go home, and they don't know.
‐‐ Matt Groening

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
‐‐ James A. Michener

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
‐‐ Carol Moseley Braun

The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

The really interesting stuff about virtuality is what you can measure with it. Because what you can measure in virtuality is everything. Every single thing that every single person who's ever played in a game has ever done can be measured.
‐‐ Tom Chatfield

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
‐‐ Vik Muniz

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.
‐‐ Anton Corbijn

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.
‐‐ Stephen Daldry

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
‐‐ Ben Bradlee

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

The realms of life are many. For each one, special sciences develop. But life itself is a unity, and the more deeply the sciences try to penetrate into their separate realms, the more they withdraw themselves from the vision of the world as a living whole.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
‐‐ Thomas A. Edison

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
‐‐ Yehuda Amichai

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
‐‐ Thomas Wolfe

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
‐‐ Morgan Freeman

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products.
‐‐ Ron Johnson