Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Dana

As a young driver, you dream about an opportunity like this with a championship-caliber team.

Dido Armstrong

At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make music and write my dreams down.

Julie Klausner

Babies, babies, babies! They're everywhere, aren't they? In our eyes, in our thoughts, in our arms, in our dreams. Sometimes, in our dreams, they are riding alpacas or juggling tacos - but that doesn't mean those dreams are necessarily about babies. Look, I'm not Freud.

John Keats

Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass / Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

Marquand Manuel

Dreams do come true. You've got to keep working hard because you never know when your opportunity will come.

James Barry

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Bob Crawford

Dreams do come true, but you have to work for them.

Emily Dickinson

Dreams are the subtle Dower/ That make us rich an Hour/ Then fling us poor/ Out of the purple door.

William Burroughs

Dream long and dream hard enoughYou will come to knowDreaming can make it so . . .

Aulus Gellius

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]

Augustus

Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?!

Ayelet Waldman

[T]here is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

Ayelet Waldman

When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what he was doing, because I was just faking it. What I want for my daughter is the exact opposite.

Brenda Strong

My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.

Brad Meltzer

On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?

Brad Meltzer

As I now often tell my daughter Lila, no matter what stage of life you're in, when you want something-no matter how impossible it seems-you need to fight for it. When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

Carine Roitfeld

I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.

Jane Austen

Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

Arturo Toscanini

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Demetri Martin

A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Oscar Isaac

The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.

Alex Trebek

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

Claudio Monteverdi

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

Chuck Klosterman

Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).