Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund White

I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.

Edna O'Brien

The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually she surfaced near Japan and people gave her gifts but she had been so long under the sea she did not recognize what they were. She is a sly one. Mostly at night we commune. Night. Harbinger of dream and nightmare and bearer of omens which defy the music of words. In the morning the fear of her going is very real and very alarming. It can make one tremble. Not that she cares. She is the muse. I am the messenger.

Edna Ferber

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

Benjamin Franklin

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

Benjamin Franklin

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

Benjamin Franklin

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

Benjamin Franklin

Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.

Ben Barnes

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

Barbra Streisand

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

Aya Cash

Even though I'm on a show that I love with people that I love - I have basically the dream job - that doesn't mean I'm not getting rejected on a daily basis.

Arthur Erickson

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

Bob Hope

Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.

Bill Frist

We have determined enemies who will use any means available to take the lives of as many Americans as possible. They cheered when the Twin Towers fell. They dream of even larger calamities. They must be stopped. And that requires an intelligence system that finds them, before they harm us.

Bill Gates

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Bo Sanchez

God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.

The region (5) we are in now is not as intense. It was good to play some of our old rivals again. Going to state is helping to make all of our team's dreams come true.

Women will be driving the next big online retail boom. Online retailers would be wise to look at how women shop online, and tailor their strategies accordingly.

Chelsea Handler

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

Charlie Rowe

I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's my dream; that's the ultimate goal.

Aimee Mullins

I haven't had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.

Aimee Bender

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Blanche Lincoln

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.

Blanche Lincoln

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

Billy Joel

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

Billy Joel

If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

Bill Parcells

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.

Bill Parcells

Confidence is only born out of one thing ­ demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it.

Beyonce Knowles

I think people have an idea in their heads about entertainers[and] celebrities. I think they feel like their lives are so perfect, and it's really hard to go through painful experiences when you are in the public eye because it's hard to have closure.

Beyonce Knowles

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

We felt like we had to make a drastic stance. They were just going out there and enticing our kids.

Henry Ward Beecher

Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.

William Shakespeare

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

William Shakespeare

When I waked, I cried to dream again