#realise

When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#am #attractive #bit #care #children

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#any #beings #drawn #fraction #human

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#inspired #me #only #piece #realises

I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#barely #could #divine #film #football

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#only #our #perfection #realise #through

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#big #cannot #expensive #had #happened

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#city #done #edge #fields #five

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

#every #happens #human #human race #makes

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #debts #escape #fewer #fiction

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous. ↗

— Max Hastings

#comedy #divine #part #play #realise