Real World Quotes
What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.
I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong.
The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world.
I wouldnt say Malkovich is totally insane, but hes not living in the real world. Hes living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.
The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.
It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.
I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.
The German chancellor said that our president lives in a different world. I believe he lives in a very real world.
You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.
Particularly with MFA students, who have so much invested - literally and figuratively - I feel like honest criticism is something they're owed. It's not going to be easier in the real world, surely.
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world.
Our real world has evolved. It's become something much different, and inadvertently about healthcare, and about what it means to have good health, and to be able to have good health.
I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.
Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.
I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.
There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students have to take to make it more applicable to the real world.
I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.
Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.
We don't measure our people's success in how they're doing in government. We measure how they are doing in the real world and the private sector economy.
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.
I wanna go to the clubs and actually have a good time too, but at the same time, when the party's over, I have to go back to the real world and try to figure out who I am.
Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.
A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world.
Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.
In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows
In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.
When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.
I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.
These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.
The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.
My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a big help that I don't have both feet in Hollywood
I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.
I...have been in that weird state between dreaming and waking, where dreams could be memories and the real world could be a dream.
I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.
My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.
If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.
Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.
When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.