Real World Quotes

It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.

I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

I read that MTV's Real World got 40,000 applications. That's amazing, such an even number. You would have thought it would be 40,008.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.

The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.

I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.

What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world

The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.

The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.

You don't get second chances in the real world.

I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it.

None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world.

Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.

In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.

I didn’t find it difficult to live in the “Inherent Vice” world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.