The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.
Anderson Cooper

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
Mike Tyson

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
Mike Tyson

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
William S. Burroughs

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.
Dave Barry

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
Alexander Hamilton

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Fidel Castro

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
David Foster Wallace

TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.
David Foster Wallace

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
Robert Mugabe

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Edward Everett Hale

I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.
Julius Erving

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas B. Macaulay

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.
Galen Rowell

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
Galen Rowell

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
Galen Rowell

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
Bodhidharma