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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.

'Ain't It Fun,' which is about entering the real world, is bouncy and shows off Paramore's lighter side, to the dismay of some of the band's fans, who are used to the punk-rock sound.

Quotes by Phoebe Robinson

When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human...

Quotes by Philipp Meyer

Real Madrid. It is the best team in the world.

Quotes by Philippe Coutinho

I like a lot to watch Real Madrid and Barcelona, which are my favourite teams in La Liga.

Quotes by Philippe Coutinho

I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.

Quotes by Philippe Perrin

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

Quotes by Phillip E. Johnson

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is...

Quotes by Philip Seymour Hoffman

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

Quotes by Philip Pullman

In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to...

Quotes by Philip K. Dick

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying...

Quotes by Phil Jackson

I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.

Quotes by Phil Knight

I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of what the company has become.

Quotes by Phil Knight

Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

Quotes by Phil Bredesen

Not only do you have 16 regular-season games, you also have four preseason games. Then if you make the playoffs, you can have four more games before you get to the Super Bowl. So you can already have 24 games...

Quotes by Peyton Hillis

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what...

Quotes by Phil Anselmo

And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again.

Quotes by Phil Anselmo

It's just so humanizing to see someone be real.

Quotes by Petra Collins

Hashtag activism is a catalyst, but things have to actually happen in real life.

Quotes by Petra Collins

The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income.

Quotes by Peter Welch

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.

Quotes by Peter York

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.