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.

Richard Baxter

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.

Richard DeVos

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Vinny Testaverde

I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

Samuel Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Warren Buffett

There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation.

Warren Buffett

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

William Congreve

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Sandra Bullock

False expectations take away joy.

Rosemary Clooney

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

Russell Brand

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

Rose Macaulay

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

Rich Mullins

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

Roger Ebert

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

William Arthur Ward

A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

Rick Riordan

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

Pat Summitt

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

Potter Stewart

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

Park Dietz

I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.