Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Lamb

The true poet dreams being awake.

Charles Baudelaire

Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.

Charles Baudelaire

All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.

Charles Baudelaire

Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re" ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.

Charice Pempengco

I dont want to stay a singer forever. I want to fulfill my dream career as a lawyer!

Charisma Carpenter

I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.

I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

Charlie Kaufman

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

Charles Rangel

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.

Charles Rangel

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

Charles M. Schulz

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.

Bill McCartney

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

Bil Keane

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

Bill Ayers

Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

Bob McDonnell

I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. Thats why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools.

Bill Walton

There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.

Bob Hartley

In a powerful, divine dream, I saw 50 million people on a "Royal Journey of Hope" who were looking and yearning for a deeper knowledge of God as the God of Hope in every arena of life and throughout the earth. They are the hope reformers that God will activate to usher the genuine presence and wisdom of Jesus into all the spheres of life into which they are sent.

William Shakespeare

Drink down all unkindness.

There is no Plan B. We will have to go back to the drawing board.

Anderson Cooper

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

Matt Lanter

I honestly try not to eat a whole lot of fast food, so it wouldn't kill me to drop it all together.

Frank Williams

What he had as a driver is a quality he shares with many of his compatriots, ... He was canny.

Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?

Buddy Guy

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

Bruce Wilkinson

You are not an accident. You are one of a kind. Your big dream is from God, and its irreplaceable. And you were born to seize it and celebrate it every day of your life!

Bruce Wilkinson

The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do. And until you decide to pursue your Dream, you are never going to love life the way you were meant to.

Catherine Helen Spence

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

Cary Elwes

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

Carole King

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

Carlos Santana

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are people you remember and people you dream of.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Camille Paglia

The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.