Top 680 Actual Quotes

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
V. S. Naipaul
I prefer ECW’s style as far as the actual matches I’m capable of having.
Rob Van Dam
We played with AC/DC. There are actual recordings of us doing ‘Johnny B Good’ together.
Rick Nielsen
It’s sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.
Judith Tarr
I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them – how I get the ball into the back of the net – might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.
Michael Owen
People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.
John McWhorter
While I’m very into fitness, I’m much more used to swinging kettlebells around than my actual body.
Emma Weymouth
My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.
Peter Fonda
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills – not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don’t get to use again.
Penn Jillette
‘An Unquiet Mind’ wasn’t hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.
Kay Redfield Jamison
The idea is that we’re doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.
Lauren Ambrose
My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.
Greg Iles
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
Amos Oz
My opinion is that the movie business should show an accurate picture, but I think the responsibility lies in the educational system. Most of the educational material I’ve seen on the Native American does not portray an actual picture.
Michael Horse
I had always owned them to be the Word of God… the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.
John Nelson Darby
On ‘Six Feet Under,’ I never really had much to do with the actual business, with the embalming stuff. That wasn’t really my role.
Lauren Ambrose
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
Sachin Tendulkar
For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.
Ciaran Hinds
Offence is no longer defence – it’s a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren’t told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
Karan Johar
The only actual solution is the eventual collapse and demise of civilization… I think it needs to happen, but no one, not even me, really wants it to happen.
Andy Hurley
I have such a soft spot for the really cheesy zombie movies, but if I had to pick a really good one, I’d have to go with an actual TV show and say ‘The Walking Dead’.
Jennifer Armentrout
In the U.S., it’s like, you start with a great script, and then on set – not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group – you go off, and you’re improvising on camera. So while you’re on camera, you’re saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
Bill Hader
Yes I am a big time foodie, but I make sure to eat a little less than my actual hunger.
Guru Randhawa
The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.
Herbert A. Simon
The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them.
Michael Pollan
Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. Trust that I can make it better. That if I keep trying, I will come closer to something true.
Mona Simpson
I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.
Ian Brown
Now, I think perhaps I got it wrong over Prince Philip. I think he loves pretty women, and he likes flirting, but I’m not sure how important actual sex is to him, put it that way.
Sarah Bradford
I’ve loved hip-hop all of my life, but there came a time in my life when my entire life had a shift: where, before, I was just kind of going to church every now and then; then, there was an actual change, where I actually understood who Jesus was, actually understood the message of the Gospel, and my entire life changed.
Trip Lee
I’m a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates some of the guilt that I think many self-employed people feel when you know you could always be working from your laptop at home. I feel so relaxed there, while completely engaged and inspired.
Tavi Gevinson
If you get the chance to be a Bourke Street busker, you actually have to do an audition in front of a council panel. You get a roster every week that has your busking shifts on it – I’m serious: it’s an actual job.
Tash Sultana
Whether they are actual poets or their music exemplifies a poetic sensibility, generally speaking, the Americana artist shuns commercial compromise in favor of a singular vision. Which resonates with me.
Rodney Crowell
I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding the actual work of feminism.
Roxane Gay
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.
Jim Carrey
I do enjoy a bit of the fantasy world that anime provides, but at the same time, I need the reality in it. I’m very much a stickler about the actual animation. I’m not into the cutesy, stereotypical animation with big eyes and a small chin. That annoys the hell out of me.
Thundercat
The ‘Pro-Sim’ is pretty much the best simulator you can buy, because of the steering motor and the pedals. The force feedback we get through the steering is pretty much exactly the same as what we get in the actual car in terms of how heavy it is.
Lando Norris
I don’t think you can have any actual idea of what the Royal Family are really like from how they are portrayed in the papers.
Hugh Skinner
With the advancement in e-reading technology, I was curious if it were possible for readers to be able to hear the actual songs while reading the book. I contacted Amazon and discussed the idea with their Kindle team, and they were very enthusiastic about it.
Colleen Hoover
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
Barbara Hershey
I’ve never seen somebody get more flak than Colin Kaepernick for silently and nonviolently protesting and standing up for something he believes, and something that obviously is an actual problem.
Blake Griffin
I had my idea of what the series finale of ‘King of the Hill’ would be, but that’s not what the actual series finale was.
Greg Daniels
I’m a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops… I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
Patrick Carman
The next phase of the journey is to move from speculati

The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases – people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
Adam Draper
Without transformation, you can assume you’re at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.
Richard Rohr
I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, ‘Actual’. I’m not to scale.
Demetri Martin
I once had a ‘best friend’ share private stories that I had told her in confidence to another mutual friend. I think the worst part, aside from the actual betrayal of trust, is that this experience affected my future relationships, as I was hesitant to be as open with my other friends.
Katie Lee
There are so many bands that I’m kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.
Win Butler
Democracy is not just about voting but about informed voting. If democracy doesn’t have access to reliable sources of information and instead relies on social proof, then there is no way of distinguishing between junk evidence and actual knowledge.
Jens Martin Skibsted
The N.R.A.’s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks – devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster – is designed to pre-empt anything more serious by giving the illusion of action. It substitutes accessory control for actual gun control.
Charlie Sykes