„The guys with big words usually have nothing to do in real world.“

„In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ.“

—  Camille Paglia American writer 1947

Playboy interview (May 1995)
Context: In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

„Marriage is a big word for all guys,” Shane said. “You know that. It’s kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.“

—  Rachel Caine American writer 1962

Source: Last Breath

„I get accused all the time of having a big
mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.“

—  Meg Cabot Novelist 1967

Source: Queen of Babble in the Big City

„Enlightenment says the world is nothing
Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion
And nothing is real.“

—  Van Morrison Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician 1945

Enlightenment
Song lyrics, Enlightenment (1990)

„False men and shams talk big and do nothing.“

—  Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907)

„The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.“

—  Jodi Picoult Author 1966

Source: Vanishing Acts

„Gerrard will fit in with any club in the world. He’s one of the players in the world that have all what it takes to play for Real Madrid. I want to urge Gerrard to join Real Madrid. If you don’t play for Real Madrid you always feel that something is missing. There is nothing better than wearing Real Madrid’s jersey. This is a big opportunity for Gerrard. I’m not talking money wise, but victories wise. I’m sure that Gerrard has alot of respect towards Mourinho. Steven signing for Real Madrid will be perfect for him.“

—  Steven Gerrard English footballer 1980

Kaka on Steven Gerrard, (August 2010)

„There is no meaning to space that is independent of the relationships among real things of the world. …Space is nothing apart from the things that exist. …If we take out all the words we are not left with an empty sentence, we are left with nothing.“

—  Lee Smolin, book Three Roads to Quantum Gravity

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)

„You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.“

—  Ronald Reagan American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989) 1911 - 2004

Campaign rally for V.P. George H.W. Bush, San Diego California (7 November 1988), as quoted in Common Sense of an Uncommon Man https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1400324203, Thomas Nelson Inc. (2014), Jim Denney & Michael Reagan, 'Bureaucracy and Bureaucrats'
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)

„You're an awful little guy to be such a big thief.“

—  Babe Ruth American baseball player 1895 - 1948

Addressing Pittsburgh Pirates' right fielder Paul Waner between innings at Forbes Field on Thursday, May 23, 1935, just moments after having his extra base bid foiled by Waner's spectacular catch (and just 2 days before hitting the final three home runs of his major league career, including the first ever to clear Forbes Field's RF roof); as quoted in "Mirrors of Sport: The Babe" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UYhRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IGkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1757%2C1439317&dq=after-victimized-awful-guy-such-big-thief by Havey Boyle, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (May 24, 1935), p. 18

„There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.“

—  Stefan Zweig, book The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

„Excuse me, have you seen Death? Big guy with black feathery wings? Likes to reap souls?“

—  Rick Riordan American writer 1964

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

„You have to be patient. I want to be the possession receiver, the go-to guy. When it's time for a big play, they can come to me.“

—  Ted Ginn, Jr. American football wide receiver, kick returner 1985

[Drape, Joe, Friendship Forged in Youth Fuels Touchdowns at Ohio State, D3, New York Times, 2006-09-23, 2007-01-23]

„He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.“

—  Jack McDevitt American novelist, Short story writer 1935

Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Cauldron (2007), Chapter 36 (p. 322)

„hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words“

—  Gregory David Roberts, book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

„What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do“

—  James Patterson American author 1947

Source: Angel

„Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.“

—  Jim Butcher American author 1971

„The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.“

—  Terence McKenna American ethnobotanist 1946 - 2000

"Alien Dreamtime" a multimedia event recorded live. (27 February 1993)

„In the real world
as in dreams
nothing is quite
what it seems.
-The Book of Counted Sorrows“

—  Dean Koontz American author 1945