Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

William Shakespeare

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

Les Claypool

I don't really listen to bassists - not anymore. When I was younger, I listened to those guys and was trying to figure out everything they did. Nowadays, I draw inspiration from everybody.

Dav Whatmore

We're really enjoying the situation. Barring any mishaps in the second innings, we're in the driving seat.

Penalties are going to kill plays, kill drives and kill momentum and they did that to us (Sunday).

Our hole 11 at Campbellsville is 404 yards and on a level surface, and he drove the green on that one -- in competition. He and I played in a golf tournament in Vegas two consecutive years, and on a 517-yard par 5 there, I saw him hit a pitching wedge 95 yards to the green.

Overall, we're entering a dry period, a little warmer period.

Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.

Bruce Coville

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

Bill Hader

I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.

David Axelrod

We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward.

Dave Grohl

It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'

Reba McEntire

I treat myself pretty good. I take lots of vacations, I eat well, I take supplements, I do mercury detox, I get plenty of sleep, I drink plenty of water and I stay away from drama and stress.

Nolan Bushnell

When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm somebody's ex-wife, and I did things that drove him nuts. And now I'm somebody's girlfriend, for many years, and I've got different things that drive him nuts.

Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

Liang Chow

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school - no way. And I had no idea I'd be coaching girls. It's wild.

Banksy

I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as being 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.

Laurie Lee

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

John Dingell

This staff draft is a very useful starting point in the process,

Tom Araya

A good wine has many qualities, I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.