Realising famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You are very attractive. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it!
-- A.J. Cronin -
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
-- Adam Brody -
I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.
-- Adora Svitak -
Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple
-- Agatha Christie -
Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.
-- Alan Hansen -
It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.
-- Amelie Mauresmo -
I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.
-- Antonio Banderas -
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
-- Barkhad Abdi -
Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.
-- Cee Lo Green -
I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
-- Chuck Close -
Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.
-- David Benioff -
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
-- David Hockney -
Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
One of the things that you never realise while you are young is that things do come to an end.
-- George Ogilvie -
Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being and their feeling and their way of realising everything and every one comes out of them in repeating. More and more then every one comes to be clear to some one.
-- Gertrude Stein -
It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
-- Gunter Grass -
I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have Loved, will realise the Lord
-- Guru Gobind Singh -
One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.
-- Gus Van Sant -
When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.
-- Helen Dunmore -
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
-- Ian Hacking -
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
-- Idries Shah -
Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously - the quick ways of doing things - was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter - into yourself.
-- Isamu Noguchi -
I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.
-- Jamie Hewlett -
Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didn’t know how to read the signs.
-- Jan Hellriegel -
We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation.
-- Janne Teller -
I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped.
-- Jean-Louis Gassee -
The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.
-- Jennifer Lynch -
I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.
-- Jeremy Clarkson -
If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.
-- Jessica Chastain -
All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.
-- Jim Henson -
I do realise that when I laugh, it sounds like a seal is being molested.
-- Jimmy Carr -
So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.
-- Joely Richardson -
The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.
-- John Bercow -
I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.
-- Julie Walters -
It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.
-- Kameron Hurley -
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
-- Kate Morton -
I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.
-- Katherine Heigl -
I think people realise that I'm happy with what I've achieved.
-- Kelly Holmes -
It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.
-- Laura Marling -
I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.
-- Len Goodman -
My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.
-- Mark Gatiss -
Once you realise there's nothing to be afraid of when you die, there's nothing else to worry about.
-- Michael Thomas Ford -
Do you realise that Eve was the only woman who ever took a man's side?
-- Milton Berle -
When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.
-- Natasha Henstridge -
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Only if we realise how sh*t we were at Blackburn can we improve.
-- Paolo Di Canio -
People are much more interesting than people realise.
-- Peter Ackroyd -
The moment we fully and vitally realise who and what we are, we then begin to build our own World even as God builds his.
-- Ralph Waldo Trine -
All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
-- Ramana Maharshi -
When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.
-- Ryan Tedder -
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it,
-- Sarah Beeny -
When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
-- Stephen Fry -
So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.
-- Steven Biko -
I have to not take myself too seriously and I have to realise that if it is meant to be, it will be.
-- Teresa Palmer -
I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
-- Trent Reznor -
In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is
-- Veronica Roth -
As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.
-- Harriet Walter -
I haven't had ice-cream in a year, although I did have a slice of pizza. People don't realise that when you're shooting a movie it's only three months to get in shape for.
-- Mike Colter -
I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.
-- Andrew Flintoff -
People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.
-- Philippa Perry -
The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.
-- Zach Condon -
It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.
-- Kameron Hurley
