Quotes of: Real-sense Keyword

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

Peter Davison

All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

Rohinton Mistry

The gospels, never meant to report, but rather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers’ convictions.

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him." [ ...

Rex Stout

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

Ray LaMontagne

An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real -- it is a passing will o’ the wisp, an artifact of the senses and the translations of the brain until we ge...

Nigel Hey

There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather bl...

Dinesh D'Souza

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

Amanda Palmer

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Constantin Brancusi

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

The Knowledge of the Holy

Time is real and independent of space. Space is a manufactured quantity and a form of time. Time is not a manufactured quantity in any sense.

Khalid Masood

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

James D'arcy

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Amos Bronson Alcott

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

Joel Edgerton

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

John F. Kennedy

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government con...

James Madison

Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.

Subhan Zein

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

Tom Petty

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Billy Graham

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

S. I. Hayakawa