I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
~ Mary Mccarthy
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
~ Andy Warhol
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
~ Gustave Courbet
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
~ Mark Twain
There is so much partisan and tribal politics, from not just those seeking office but potential voters as well, that we never get real attempts at solutions to problems.
~ Mark Cuban
Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.
~ James Surowiecki
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
~ St. Jerome
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
~ Anaïs Nin
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
~ Ian Mckellen
Friendship formed in the glamour industry comes with mutual benefits, which is nice, but it is not the real deal.
~ Mohit Chauhan
I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.
~ Craig Charles
I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.
~ Twiggy
It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
~ Oscar Robertson
Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.
~ Michael Oxley
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
~ Larry Wall
I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.
~ Drew Barrymore
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
~ Thomas Sowell
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
~ Wayne Dyer
I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.
~ Taylor Hicks
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
~ Everett Dirksen
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
~ Peter Lynch
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
~ B. C. Forbes
It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
~ Marianne Williamson
Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
~ Orson Welles
Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.
~ John Ralston Saul
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
~ Ezra Pound
If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.
~ Julius Genachowski
There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
~ Willem Dafoe
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
~ Walter Benjamin
The Rolls Royce was the real first car. It wasn't the first new car I got, but it was the first real car I bought that's like, 'Wow, I got this.'
~ Meek Mill
Tesla is becoming a real car company.
~ Elon Musk
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
~ E. Joseph Cossman
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
~ Saint Teresa Of Avila
My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.
~ Lilly Singh
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
~ Gilbert Parker
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
~ Billy Graham