Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Clinton

We set forth on a journey to bring our vision to our country, to keep the American dream alive for all who are willing to work for it, to make our American community stronger, to keep America the world's strongest force for peace and freedom and prosperity.

William J. Clinton

Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence all over the world that women are gaining social and economic power that they never had before. This is good news...

William J. Clinton

Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.

William J. Clinton

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.

William J. Clinton

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

William J. Clinton

President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities.

William J. Clinton

I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts.... We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.

William J. Clinton

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

William J. Clinton

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

William J. Clinton

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

William James

To change one's life: a. Start immediately b. B. Do it flamboyantly c. No exceptions Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.

William James

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

William James

Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.

William James

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

William Friedkin

I'm not a fan of 3D. But I am a huge fan of digital imagery. Because it allows a filmmaker much more latitude to appreciate their own visions and dreams.

William Friedkin

Sam Jackson is a director's dream. Some actors hope to find their character during shooting. He knows his character before shooting. Sam's old-school. I just got out of his way. I never did more than two takes with Sam.-william friedkin

William Gibson

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

William Gibson

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

William Gibson

Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

Will Durst

You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.

Will Ferrell

I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie - heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.

Will Ferrell

I have the physique a lot of people dream about having. It's my obligation to share it with the world.

Will Durant

Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I'm a dream ruiner.

Sarah Silverman

I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

Sarah Silverman

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

Sarah Carter

I had no dream of being a movie star.

Sarah Bernhardt

The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.

Sarah Burton

Dreams are never just dreams, they are reality waiting to happen.

Sarah Burton

We don't take on battles so small we know we can win, we take on battles so big we dare to dream of winning them.

Sarah Brightman

I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.