Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.
The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.
A beach house isn’t just real estate. It’s a state of mind.
That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.
If there’s any real truth, it’s that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life.
Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.
I’m up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn’t by eliminating the impossible that you got to the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.
Just because something is a metaphor doesn’t mean it can’t be real.
Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.
An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?
Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.
Now he knew: They were real. Who’d make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect.
The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.
Quick, someone’s coming! Look real!
No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.
The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by this don’t realize that this power is really coming from within.
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.