Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miriam Toews

Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams.

Mike O'Malley

A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you're doing a sitcom, people don't give you a lot of credit, because you've got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it's successful.

R. D. Laing

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.

Prabal Gurung

I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.

Judd Apatow

I don't think because a story has humor in it means it's brief. For some reason, people think anything that's 30 minutes is a comedy, comedies can be longer or shorter, so can dramas.

Joseph Sobran

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I sometimes have to look back and say, "Wow, this is amazing what has happened to me. I have been able to fulfill a lot of these dreams that I had when I was very young." It's a pretty amazing feeling. But at the same time it becomes addictive!

Leonardo DiCaprio

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Oscar Wilde

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Oscar Wilde

Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

Oscar Wilde

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

Oscar Wilde

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

Paul Robeson

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever. The people- beaten down today, yet rising tomorrow; losing the road one minute but finding it the next; their eyes always fixed on a star of true brotherhood, equality and dignity- the people are the real guardians of our hopes and dreams.

Paul Robeson

To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil, to give our children every opportunity in life--that dream which we have held so long in our hearts is today the destiny that we hold in our hands.

Paul Reiser

Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time

Paul Gascoigne

I'll tell you what my real dream is. I mean my absolute number one dream that will mean I die a happy man if it happens. I want to see a UFO. They're real. I don't care if you look at me like that. UFO's are a definite fact and I've got to see one soon.

Paul Fussell

So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.

Paul Gauguin

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

Paul Gauguin

A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

Paul Gauguin

Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.

Paul Gauguin

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

Paul Gauguin

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

Paul Gauguin

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

Paul Gauguin

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

Paul Gauguin

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

Paul Gauguin

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

Paul Gauguin

My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

Patrick Rothfuss

Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.

Patrick Rothfuss

Auri took it, and peered inside the small leather sack. “Why this is lovely, Kvothe. What lives in the salt?” Trace minerals, I thought. Chromium, bassal, malium, iodine . . . everything your body needs but probably can’t get from apples and bread and whatever you manage to scrounge up when I can’t find you. “The dreams of fish,” I said. “And sailor’s songs.

Patrick Rothfuss

There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre... plus a dragon.

Patrick Rothfuss

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.