Quotes of: Real-world Keyword

I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.

Luke Wilson

Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a be...

House Rules

But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure enough is. Weakness is true and real. I used to accuse the kid of faking his weakness. But faking proves the weakness ...

Sometimes a Great Notion

Hundreds of thousands of people live in my library. Some are real, others are fictional. The real ones are the so-called imaginary characters in works of literature, the fictional ones are their authors. We know everything about the former, or at lea...

Phantoms on the Bookshelves

Walter: What happened to her? Garth: Looks like her heart gave out in all the excitement. She was plenty old, you know. Walter: Look, I think she's smiling. Garth: I guess she died happy. Hub: She died with her boots on, that's the main thing. Garth:...

Secondhand Lions

The real unlucky one will sprain his thumb when he blows his nose.

Polish

My recommendation instead, however, is that we do not surrender questions of value, whether absolute matters of truth, goodness, and beauty or relative judgment of more or less truth, goodness, and beauty. With those questions to the fore, in fact, w...

Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World

The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder. The rest of me thinks that artificially splitting off the scientist in me from the writer in me is actually a ki...

The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

Our lives are mere flashes of light in an infinitely empty universe. In 12 years of education the most important lesson I have learned is that what we see as “normal” living is truly a travesty of our potential. In a society so governed by superf...

Dominic Owen Mallary

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ

Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.

Classical Myth

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

The Drowned Cities

Any dog can bed down a lot of females. But only a real man can love one woman for a lifetime.

Doug and Carlie

Are you afraid of the dark?” I asked. “No. Monsters aren't real. This is real. I'm scared of what could happen when the lights go out.

Exodus in Confluence

I guess it’s always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

Emerald City

Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.

Em memória

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

Earthly Powers

Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.

Eating Naked: Stories

In real life, you don't get a reset, and you don't get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me.

Fall of Night

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

The Fault in Our Stars

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.

Gone Girl