Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. E. van Vogt

I wrote what interested me; and my method of working out my story through the dream process probably underlay the wheels within wheels aspect.

Lukas Krajicek

Just to get to play the first game of the season is what I've dreamed of, and it happened.

Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dream of thy youth.

Ray Young

Just thinking about it gives me the chills, ... It's one of the things I dream about at night.

Lucy Jones

Hector Mine was a dream earthquake. All the fun of a magnitude 7 without any of the guilt.

Luciano Figueroa

Having a game like this is a dream come true.

Michael Ende

Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn't that what he'd always dreamed of?

Lauren Bacall

I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress.

Jason Gardener

It has always been my ambition to win a major outdoor title and that will be the plan at the Commonwealths.

Bruce Davison

I'd like to tell them thank you. Their courage and ambition to get a higher education ... is something I truly admire. It's something I can't picture, but it's something I know happened, and that's why I commend them for doing what they've done.

Marc Jones

He had his pick of schools. But his ambition is to become a top entrepreneur and businessman, and that's why he chose Bentley.

William Law

All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

William Shenstone

It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?

Richard Rorty

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

Venus Williams

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

Vera Farmiga

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

Vance Havner

We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

Dr. Miglietta

It can be anything from him waking up to having a seizure, or it could be involuntary.

Sara Bareilles

I can very much relate to waking up inside of your life and saying to yourself, "How did I get here?"

Douglas Coupland

I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

Eric Berne

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours

Lenny Bruce

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

Paul Lowe

Waking up is seeing yourself just as you are, not as you would like to be nor as you are afraid you might be.

Avril Lavigne

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

Desmond Tutu

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Annie Dillard

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.