#real thing

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#am #because #good #i #i am

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever. ↗

— Tony Randall

#plays #real #real thing #seeing #should

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. ↗

— Mae West

#imitation #just #lady #model #real

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. ↗

— Hesiod

#how #know #many #real #real things

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. ↗

— Irene Peter

#excuse #ignorance #real #real thing #thing

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs. ↗

— Jack Johnson

#full #like #made #our #our dreams

They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing! ↗

— Alan Clark

#just #much #prefer #real #real thing

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold. ↗

— Esther Forbes

#belief #believe #books #hold #i

If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta. ↗

— Mario Batali

#dry #fresh #going #make #pasta

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#cave #content #difference #emerged #images