Really Quotes

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower.

Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.

It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

I really like children to watch my movies.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I'll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too weird, I think it's too unusual.'

I fall in love every time. And I don't really fall in love a lot, but when I do, I fall hard.

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.