#realist

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today. ↗

— Vera Wang

#boot #buy #buying #costs #design

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit. ↗

— John Green

#also #bit #feel #ground #grounds

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#concepts #how #most #publishing #totally

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#language #leader #must #practical #realist

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#english #language #music #number #realistically

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#abject #billions #countries #developing #hope

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded! ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#comic #comic book #dennis #done #ever

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad. ↗

— David R. Brower

#bad #loaded #me #realistic #uses

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#afford #cost #end #millions #put