Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Bashevis Singer

There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.

Ian MacKaye

My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.

Ian Fleming

A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

Hugh Laurie

I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified actor.' But I did think that 'House' was something I didn't have to apologise for. It was something I was really proud of and it was sort of... whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable.

Hugh Hefner

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

Hugh Hefner

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Hugh Hefner

I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.

Homer

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

Gioconda Belli

Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubbornness that defies chaos and disillusionment.

J. K. Rowling

Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I thought it was the perfect plan... a bluff... Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they’d use a weak, talentless thing like you... It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters.

J. K. Rowling

It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel — past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment...

H. G. Wells

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

Greg James

The transitions will be tough because of the nature of a triathlon, you have to get changed and dry off or whatever. But this is going to be even harder because I have to do all that, then speak on the radio, do an interview with local telly, do some press and some interviews.

H. P. Lovecraft

When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.

Gary Jobson

Let Beth Leonard inspire you to sail around the world, explore the high latitudes, or discover your own capacity for adventure. Each nugget in this 'dream becomes reality' series of revelations is worth a thousand pictures.

I can't take the risk of leaving too much moisture in the pitch. At this time of the year, one does not know how quickly it's going to dry out.

Holly Hunter

I don't think that this family is odd. People may have greater or lesser elements of drama in their Thanksgiving Day. But I recognize these people.

Jimmy Spencer

I drove up on the inside of him all day long,

Kevin Brooks

I drove the way I lived my life - fast. I took a lot of chances, I didn't think twice.

I drove home. I didn't think I was in shock.

Adam Ferrara

I drove a brand new Lamborghini, the Huracan; it was great. We went on the Autobahn, and we got to drive on the Nurburgring.

I dream that there will be a question mark over the winner of the Tour until the very end.

Tom Daschle

I don't want to see them left high and dry just like the Enron employees were left high and dry without any pension funds, without any retirement security,

However, a much larger drag seemed possible after the October surge, and a good portion of the rise will be offset by a gain in inventories in the quarter.

How else are you going to win if you can't recover from a loss, especially at 4-1? The season's not down the drain - not even close.

Hunter S. Thompson

Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

...and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

Robert Webb

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Just thinking about it gives me the chills, ... It's one of the things I dream about at night.

Mike McCue

Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.

Tim Henman

I think I said I would put on a skirt if I dropped serve again.