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Real Quotes

On staying grounded in what's real.

This set plays with double meanings, from researchers chasing clever ideas over practical relevance to a footballer's memories of a transfer away from a famous Spanish club. For more on genuine feeling, see Like.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Quotes by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Putting yourself in the ring to wrestle - create those emotions, ups and downs within the match - one moment dominates the one, and one moment dominates the other, and without having created a choreography, that is the real wrestling.

Quotes by Alberto Del Rio

Realness is something in such short supply; you can't believe anything anyone is saying when you turn on the television, and then during the commercials, they are lying to you there also. You can't believe anything, but when you go...

Quotes by Alaska

Drag is something real. We're so fake that something real actually comes through.

Quotes by Alaska

Jonathan Agnew is a good person to learn off because he's a brilliant broadcaster and the calmness and clarity with which he does things is a real skill.

Quotes by Alastair Cook

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Albert Camus

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Albert Camus

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Albert Camus

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Albert Camus

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

Quotes by Albert Ellis

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

Quotes by Alan Rudolph

We're not going the photography route. I think there is a real distinction between photos and images, and Flickr is for photos, and Instagram is for photos. You wouldn't put a filter on a meme; you'd put a filter on...

Quotes by Alan Schaaf

Imgur isn't about following a celebrity, and it's not about following a person in real life. You don't have to build up a massive following and use that to get your distribution.

Quotes by Alan Schaaf

Let's get real: the .GIF format is outdated and is not really that great for the modern web anymore. It was created in 1989, and it wasn't even created for the purpose of animation.

Quotes by Alan Schaaf

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you...

Quotes by Alan Shepard

By going to Pluto, we have a chance to anchor, with real data, models of the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere.

Quotes by Alan Stern

I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and extra-galactic astronomy - is really cool stuff, but to me, it's about destinations.

Quotes by Alan Stern

That so many binary or quasi-binary KBOs exist came as a real surprise to the research community.

Quotes by Alan Stern

My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to...

Quotes by Alan Thicke

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about cryptography or technical research?
Yes. One quote observes that a lot of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues, and are more focused on discovering things clever enough to write papers about. It's a candid critique of research for its own sake. Browse Know quotes for more insight-driven lines.
Does this page include the same baseball confession found on other topic pages?
Yes - one quote here reads: "I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad." It shows up here because it uses real as an intensifier, alongside its baseball subject matter.
Is there a quote about a football transfer between clubs?
Yes. One quote reflects on being sold from Real Madrid to Inter, saying the speaker would have preferred to have remained in Spain. It's a personal look at how a transfer can feel from the player's side. For more on preferences and personal choices, see Like quotes.
Is there a quote about the movie "Scream"?
Yes - one quote notes that in 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama, pointing out that even a horror franchise can carry genuine emotional weight. For more reflections on everyday life and entertainment, browse Life quotes.
What does "real" mean across these different quotes?
It covers a lot - real-world application in research, real bad as an intensifier in baseball slang, the real experience of being transferred between football clubs, and the real drama within a horror movie. For more quotes that return to familiar words in new contexts, see Always quotes.

A film quote points to drama that feels real rather than staged, tying the theme back to authenticity in storytelling. Explore related pages such as Know and Life.