Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. C. Fields

Never give a sucker an even break.

Zora Neale Hurston

She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

Zachary Knighton

FlashForward' was a dream come true. I had auditioned for David Goyer for 'Blade: Trinity' and didn't get the part, but I guess he became a fan.

Zachary Knighton

I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

Zach Wamp

Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.

Zig Ziglar

You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.

Zach Braff

I don't like the idea of drama schools. They only perpetuate the myth that everyone can do what I do

Zhuangzi

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Yves Saint Laurent

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

William Arthur Ward

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

William Butler Yeats

A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.

William Butler Yeats

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember

William Butler Yeats

My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.

William Butler Yeats

Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.

William Butler Yeats

We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.

William Butler Yeats

Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?

Wilhelm Reich

The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural sexual gratification.

Walter Scott

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

Walter Scott

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Walter Hill

Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

Walter Dean Myers

the beast is the monster that destroys your dream

Rebecca Romijn

Just believe in your dreams.

Rick Riordan

Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz." She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?" "Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters.

Tracy Chapman

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

Topher Grace

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

Vince Vaughn

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

Viktor Chernomyrdin

Wine we need for health, and the health we need to drink vodka.

Robert Graves

No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing.

Samuel Johnson

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

Samuel Johnson

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Samuel Johnson

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Sam Worthington

Everything is backwards now, like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream.

Sam Abell

I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.