Realising Quotations

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour.

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.

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

I do realise how incredibly lucky I am.

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

I had a few problems. I didn't realise it until I started going to therapy. I did it for 10 years, two days a week, and pretty quickly I understood that a lot of my suffering, many of my issues, were rooted in my realising that I was gay when I was a little boy. I knew I was different. That made me very fragile.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

There are lots of ideas which extend the Copernican principle one step further. We went from the solar system to the galaxy to zillions of galaxies and now to realising even that isn't all there is.

I nearly died with the peritonitis, but not the heart attack. The heart attack was like bad indigestion and two weeks later I was back in shouting at people. I was shouting at people during the heart attack. I had it for three days without realising what it was.

Your calves, biceps and neck should always be the same size in inches. Mine are 16 inches - anything bigger or smaller and you know you're going wrong! Most men ignore working out the legs and glutes, not realising that they are the pillars of our core.

The old university attitude of 'publish or perish' has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are also wealth-generators. It is very satisfying to be in a university where you have the freedom to innovate and yet know that there is a path to translate your work into industry.

As the CG in motion capture made it look realistic, it put more of an onus on the game makers to make the dialogue they're saying more realistic. It doesn't matter what they say when they're 8-bits, but if they look almost photo-real, it matters. More and more, the games industry is realising that.

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.

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.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

People are much more interesting than people realise.

I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.

Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

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.

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

We had so much in common [with June Hillary] that we just carried on with life as we had been doing. It wasn't easy, but it was - I realise now that it was the only thing to do.

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.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

Fuelling the growth of prepay cards is essential to realising our vision of a truly cashless society.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

I saw two of my crew members trying to push them back and defend the boat not realising what was going on, thinking it was some joke.

My whole life I've actually been training to be a stunt man without realising it. I've always loved extreme sports, and I now I get paid for it.

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

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

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.

Do you realise how much trouble you're in?" "Perhaps I'll have some Weetabix after all.

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

Hold on to your dreams, Kiall. They are more important than you realise.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

Being tall when I was youngerl I was always a bit awkward. As a teenager, I was very, very thin, so I was very gangly and limby, and would sweep things off the table without realising how big my wingspan was - just out of control. A lot of women write to me and say, 'I'm six foot and exactly the same happens' - that's been lovely therapy.

Everybody just uses the one-move rule without realising when it is too late to actually move and cross over and when it is actually being dangerous.

Fashion is intoxicating, and it plays a part in all of our everyday lives. A lot of people use it as a form of escape, of realising a fantasy, and in some ways that becomes an unobtainable norm.

St Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.

It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue.

The internet is an exceptional medium in that it now acts as a source of entertainment, information and communication for the majority of the UK population. Advertisers are realising this, and allocating their budgets accordingly.

I'm increasingly realising our consciousness and subconsciousness are extremely different, and our subconsciousness motivates us, but so far, I don't know what drove or motivates me.

I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should.

I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish - I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

Friends always say you don't realise how robust your baby is until you drop it.

Don't let life pass you by before you realise that it was worth living.

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when they make love, we re never more incommunicative, never more alone.

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

Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

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

I think people realise that I'm happy with what I've achieved.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

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.

I have to not take myself too seriously and I have to realise that if it is meant to be, it will be.

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

The growth in online advertising is showing no sign of slowing down. The internet is an exceptional medium in that it now acts as a source of entertainment, information and communication for the majority of the UK population. Advertisers are realising this, and allocating their budgets accordingly.

All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.

People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.

I do realise that when I laugh, it sounds like a seal is being molested.

I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.

I realise that stress is only fear. I now release all fears

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.

As I've gotten older and learned more, I realise that Hollywood has not told the truth.

When you're young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you're older, and you realise that maybe a drum machine is better than you playing, then use the drum machine.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.

All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.

In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is

I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance.

We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.