#real thing

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#genuine #hanging #known #like #look

My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#i #laugh #life #my life #my own

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#course #good #got #haven #i

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#fantastically #i #i think #most #real

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#like #real #real thing #reputation #shadow

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#fiction #find #historical #historical fiction #i

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. ↗

— John Mayall

#dictates #goes #i #i write #mood

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#administrator #big #bureaucratic #feel #him

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#belief #believer #causes #faith #i