Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laini Taylor

Which is what one always hopes will happen: for life to take over and be bigger and more marvelous than what we can dream up on our own. Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)

Lisa Unger

We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones

Lisa See

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

Lisa Leslie

My success has surpassed my childhood dreams.

Lisa McMann

Janie: Did you ever sell drugs? Cabel: Yes. Pot. Ninth and tenth grade. I was, uh...rather troubled back then. Janie: Why did you stop? Cabel: Got busted, and Captain made me a better deal. Janie: So you've been a narc since then? Cabel: I cringe at your terminology.

Johnny Depp

This dress code should be mandatory for most events.

John Twelve Hawks

I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.

John Robbins

Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.

Martin Luther

We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.

Martin Luther

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

Mark Spitz

I wasn't able to lower my cholesterol so they put me on a statin drug. It is called lipitor. I was able to lower my level in about 30 days from above 300 to below 200.

Nicole Kidman

You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams – the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.

Per Petterson

I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books.

Penelope Spheeris

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

Penelope Lively

Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which I shall show you first the great slumbering rocks of the Cambrian period, and move from those to the mountains of Wales...from Ordovician to Devonian, on the lush glowing Cotswolds, on to the white cliffs of Dover... An impressionistic, dreaming film, in which the folded rocks arise and flower and grow and become Salisbury Cathedral and York Minster...

Pedro Pascal

There's so much more to Colombia than drug trafficking, you have no idea. They're a bit worn out by the association.

Peggy Noonan

I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

Paulo Coelho

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him.

Paulo Coelho

To dream is not enough, you have to fulfill your dream.

Paulo Coelho

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

Paulo Coelho

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

Paulo Coelho

That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.

Paulo Coelho

It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.

Paulo Coelho

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

Paulo Coelho

You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?

Paulo Coelho

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

Paulo Coelho

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

Paulo Coelho

How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found...they too are the victims of the reality they created.

Paulo Coelho

No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

Paulo Coelho

The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.

Paulo Coelho

when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.

Paulo Coelho

Meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams. Remember that you are a manifestation of the absolute, and do only those things in your life that are worth the effort. Only those who do that will understand the great transformations that are yet to be seen.

Paulo Coelho

Only the possibility of carrying out a dream makes our life worth living.