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Letter "R" » real life
«Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.»
Author: Berenice Abbott
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
ever-changing, exemplified, exemplify, exemplifying, fantastic, real life, renewing, unaware, unparalleled
«Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
algebra, assure, In Real Life, real life, refusal, stand firm
«Real life in Paris, the waiting-for-a-bus kind of existence that goes on without ever crossing the tracks to the city's elegance and worldly ambitions, moves on its own, without manifestoes or injunctions to stop it.»
Author: John Vinocur
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
ambitions, bus, crossing, Crossing the, elegance, injunction, injunctions, Paris, real life, tracks, worldly
«Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.»
Author: Sarah Ban Breathnach
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
acknowledgement, difficulties, real life, recur, recurring, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, survive, working
«The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.»
Author: Tom Naylor
| Keywords:
abstract, fantasy, manipulation, manipulations, real life, reassure, reassured, reassures, reassuring, retreat, technical, tendency
«Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
coffee, coffee shop, In Real Life, jobs, real life, shop, television
«The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
age of, Age of Reason, calamity, endlessly, For some, fussed, fussing, grotesques, growing, importance, joyless, mysterious, obscene, passed, real life, so far, staying, The Age, thirty, without reasoning
«Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
discipline, instruction, practical, Precepts, real life, school, School of, so far, theory, The school, useful
«Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
barrier, Best A, creative activity, real life, second best
«The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Charm,
Life
| Keywords:
actualization, horror, real life, recurrent
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