“A few years ago, a friend said to me: "You do realize, Ian, when X-Men and Lord of the Rings come out, your life will totally change?" I didn't know what he was talking about, but he was right. My life has totally changed - but in a good way. Unbeknownst to me, it's given me a lot more confidence.” KnowsMenWayYearsSaidGivenRealizingTalkingLordChangedYears AgoRingsGood WayX Men Author:Ian Mckellen
“In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.” PeopleYearsRealPlayUsedActorsRealizingPayRolesCasesAudienceStageTelevisionDramaYears AgoExtraordinaryLocalsHotelChicagoRepresentationTelephonesNever QuitSymbolicGangstersVividness Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“Don't let your present problems defeat you. The Chinese have a saying that if you live with a disaster for three years it will turn into a blessing. Look back in your own life at what appeared to be a devastating situation five or ten years ago. Many of those situations were the turning point that caused a number of great things to happen in your future. Regardless of what happens today, realize it is the beginning of something good.” IfsYearsLooksProblemHappensTodayTurnsThreeRealizingNumbersSituationFiveBlessingTenYears AgoDefeatDisasterGreat ThingsChineseOur FutureThree YearsEncouragingYour FutureTurning Points Author:Bob Proctor
“You have to realize that, about 20,000 years ago, there was a cataclysmic event when an entire rock face collapsed and sealed off the cave. It's a completely preserved time capsule. You've got tracks of cave bears that look like they were left yesterday, and you've got the footprint of a boy who was probably eight years old next to the footprint of a wolf.” YearsLooksFacesNextLeftRealizingBoysRocksEventsBearsYears AgoTrackEightYesterdayCavesFootprintTime Capsules Author:Werner Herzog
“Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice age approach for some time without realizing what we are seeing... Scientists predict that it will cause great snows which the world has not seen since the last ice age thousands of years ago.” WorldYearsWellsHas BeensAgeLastsCertainCausesRealizingSeeingApproachYears AgoScientistEnvironmentalSnowIceVisibleExtremistIce AgeLayman Author:Betty Friedan
“Playing Sheldon is just heaven for me. I realize how enormously lucky I am to play a role that makes me so incredibly happy. As I told Chuck Lorre in a Christmas card a few years ago, I'm living a version of the dream.” YearsPlayDreamHeavenRealizingRolesLuckyYears AgoVersionsCardsChuckChristmas Card Author:Jim Parsons
“Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'” KnowsYearsSaidMomentsGirlRealizingTakenSubjectsYears AgoEnglandPityMaxKnowledgeableArchaeologyPotteryPrehistoric Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“I learned about forty years ago that money and things wouldn't make people happy. And this has been confirmed many times. I have met many millionaires. They had one thing in common. None of them were happy....I realize that if you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.” PeopleIfsYearsHas BeensEnoughRealizingCommonToo MuchOne ThingMetsYears AgoFortyMillionaireMaking People Happy Author:Peace Pilgrim
“People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure out a way to take care of them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayYearsHas BeensWarEnoughCareRealizingAliveFiguresYears AgoStressVery GoodTake CarePostsSensibleWoundedComing Back Author:Anna Deavere Smith
“I think 40 years ago, it would have been a little bit different because people had a tendency to think the actor was their part. I do find people who, all of a sudden, realize who is sitting in the restaurant and the first thing they react on is not necessarily, "There's that actor," but it's, "There's that killer guy."” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsLittlesHas BeensDifferentGuyActorsBitsRealizingLittle BitSittingYears AgoTendenciesRestaurantsKillers Author:Mads Mikkelsen
“A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him.” PeopleWantYearsKidsSportsRealizingDyingCouplePromiseYears AgoBaseballComedianHospitalsBabePlayoffsRuth Author:Artie Lange
“There are times when you need to step back and realize that movie studios today are not necessarily the same things that they were many years ago. Many movie studios are international conglomerates now. They own everything from theme parks to toy companies to T-shirt companies to video companies. There's a lot of different wheels to be greased.” NeedsYearsDifferentTodayRealizingCompanyStepsYears AgoInternationalStudiosVideoShirtsParksThemeWheelsToysT ShirtTheme Parks Author:Michael Uslan
“I think that DDT holds a lot of promise. It hasn't been banned everywhere - obviously it has in the U.S. In fact, about 10 years ago, the WHO came out with a statement promoting it for public health interventions in many countries. It's cheap. It's very, very effective. We've never had an insecticide that has worked so well since. It's also safe. A lot of people don't realize that its toxicity profile for humans is low.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansWellsCountryFactsRealizingPromiseSafeLowsYears AgoStatementsInterventionPromotingProfilePublic HealthBannedToxicityInsecticidesDdt Author:Laura Harrington
“Years ago, it was easier to make new things than it is now. The weight of experience weighs heavily, and the expectations; everybody wants to see something they haven't seen before. Now, with social media, with too much information, with the speed of information - all that is making it harder and harder to realize the objective.” WantYearsSocialRealizingToo MuchMediaHavensInformationEasierExpectationsYears AgoWeightHarderSocial MediaSpeedObjectivesNew ThingsToo Much Information Author:Rei Kawakubo
“If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood used to fill 400 years ago, then you have the freedom to ignore the pointless "what is literature" discussion and just talk about stories.” IfsYearsFactsStoriesUsedLiteratureRealizingSpaceDoorsYears AgoNarrativeDiscussionPointlessHoodRobinsRobin HoodRealize Things Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Hans Rosling typically would go into the room, and he would ask the audience questions. Often they had to answer them with clickers or raising their hands or something. We get [data] wrong because 50 years ago that wasn't the case and because we haven't had these graphics we don't realize that over the last 30, 40, 50 years things have changed dramatically. And you see how the world has been getting a better, safer, more homogeneous place. It just has.” WorldYearsHas BeensHandsLastsAsksRealizingAnswersRoomsCasesAudienceHavensChangedYears AgoDataThings Have ChangedHomogeneous Author:Keith Devlin
“One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.” KnowsYearsKindRealityRealizingFiveOur LivesPerspectiveMonthsYears AgoFive YearsSaddest Author:Jonathan Carroll
“Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.” IfsFeelsYearsMeanPersonsSaidWholeAgeYoungThreeRealizingWonderYears AgoTragedyGravesCeaseTalesFairyThree YearsFairy TaleHaySaid Life Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition) Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)
“I do feel immigration will probably be dealt with as long as [the solution] doesn't provide amnesty ... Five years ago, all hell broke loose ... This year, I thought phones would ring off the hook again. They really haven't. I think everybody realizes we have a problem.” ThinkingFeelsYearsLongProblemRealizingHellFiveHavensSolutionsYears AgoPhonesRingsImmigrationBrokeFive YearsHookImmigration ReformAmnesty Author:Johnny Isakson
“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.” WayYearsMadeTwoFactsTogetherFormDifficultRealizingMemoriesPartyOur LivesAdventureYears AgoArmyTwentiesThirtyTwo YearsEpisodesObscureOur MemoriesThirty YearsLumps Author:Vaclav Havel
“My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.” YearsRealizingFourBasketballYears AgoBiggerFour YearsOhio Author:LeBron James