Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bruce Coville

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

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.

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.

I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie Mac is also in the film. I loved working for Dreamworks on that film.

Tea Leoni

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

William Cowper

Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise;Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies;Like Eden's dread probationary tree,Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

William Shakespeare

Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.

Wale

I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.

Aberjhani

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

A. A. Milne

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

Lance Loud

Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.

Hilary Mantel

I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen.

Dane Cook

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

Dave Matthews

She runs up into the light surprised Her arms are opened Her mind's eye is Seeing things from a better side than most can dream

Dave Matthews

Nothing is here to stay Everything has to begin and end A ship in a bottle won't sail All we can do is dream that the wind will blow us across the water A ship in a bottle set sail

Dani Shapiro

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

Daisaku Ikeda

Embrace your dreams and advance as far as they can take you.

Steve Alford

The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana.

Claude Nicollier

Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.

Coventry Patmore

None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.

Blake Lively

I liken myself to a little girl having a tea party at the house all of the time. I actually dress up more in my home than I do walking down the street just because it is so much fun to play dress up.

In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.

William Butler Yeats

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Kurt Vonnegut

The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to include such a dream among its fundamental legal documents. I defend it because it has been so successful for two centuries in preserving our freedom and increasing our vitality, knowing that all arguments in support of it are certain to sound absurd.