Realising Quotes - Page 18

• Do you realise that Eve was the only woman who ever took a man's side?

  Milton Berle

  Men, Sides

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• What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.

  John Waters

  Pride, Important, Needs

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• Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.

  Kamal Haasan

  Peace, War, Stupid

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• All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Responsibility, Destiny, Focus

  "Your Destiny is What You Make of It". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. January 01, 2004.

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• I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.

  Kevin Bond

  Soccer, Football, England

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• Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him the sack, so he left the gentlemen of the press with something of a void. And they abhor a void. Soon the discovery that Sven was in fact a hammer-man of legendary proportions filled the void, until the media came to realise that Sven was that rare thing, a man whose astonishing success with women somehow didn't make him more interesting.

  Declan Lynch

  Soccer, Football, Hero

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• It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Juniors, Happens

  Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled. It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors. It was three years between the junior ranks and reaching the Australian Open, and even then, having reached the final against Hingis, I wasn't really realising what it would take to go higher.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Winning, Years

  Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

  Leonard Hayflick

  Years, Evolution, Planets

  Leonard Hayflick (1994). “How and why we age”

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• When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it generally more cinematic. I would stick too closely to my own experience and not necessarily think about the fact that it needs to have an event happen. Realising that I could channel my own experience into a story that was slightly more cinematic was a very important moment for me - allowing myself to accept that the kind of screenwriting I'm doing is a work of fiction.

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, Thinking, Order

  The Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com. January 20, 2015.

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• I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Cost, Awful

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• I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Wall, Doe

  "Interview: Marina Abramović" with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• I bought it [sha la la la lee] because of steve marriotts voice. I didnt realise until recently it was written by kenny lynch. I'm not at all embarrassed, great song and great band.

  Carl Palmer

  Song, Voice, Band

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• The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Writing, Moon, Light

  Katherine Mansfield (2006). “The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield”, p.315, Wordsworth Editions

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• There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

  Mark Haddon

  Nice, Home, Class

  "Mark Haddon: 'Don't go out and buy an Aston Martin, is the only rule'" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2013.

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• I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  People, Chance, Life Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My friends ... they usually rib me about how I just sleep in and watch Oprah and that I don't really have a proper job. I've given up arguing now, so I just agree with them, even though half the time I realise I've started work before they have. Still, it's best to keep the romantic idea alive. If they call around midday and ask if they woke me, I always say yes.

  Markus Zusak

  Jobs, Sleep, Ideas

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• Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.

  Maurice Strong

  Criticism, Littles, Homework

  "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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• This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Block, Thinking, Concern For Others

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Memories, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's no better satisfaction than watching the people around you, who have worked day and night to get something right, realising the dream.

  Richard Branson

  Dream, Night, People

  Interview with Harry Jarman, www.thegentlemansjournal.com.

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• And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mother, Discovery, Parent

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “Love Over Scotland”, p.279, Hachette UK

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• The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Laughter, Drama, Character

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• I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Ideas, Able

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• If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.

  Tadashi Yanai

  Dream, Thinking, Goal

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