Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erich Fromm

Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world...

Erich Fromm

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Erich Fromm

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Erich Fromm

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Erich Fromm

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

Erich Fromm

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

Erica Jong

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

Erica Jong

Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints ...

Erica Jong

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

Eric Burdon

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

Eric Cantona

With my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, I wrote a two-page story and wanted to make some kind of movie. We met a French production company, called Why Not?, and the first name we put on the list was Ken Loach. It was a dream for all of us. So, we tried and we met Ken and Paul Laverty, his writer, and they read the two pages and were inspired by that to do something. Paul had the freedom to do his own story - and he wrote his own story, which is better than the one we'd written.

Jasper Fforde

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Glenn Frey

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with a visiting Italian chef, Japanese anime screenings, and hand-rolled-sushi lessons, no less), Paltrow admits that her dreams of relocating the family to their recently acquired residence in Brentwood, California, are becoming ever more urgent.

He spun out the young dreams of his life in these mines.

He's progressed tremendously. The only thing I think was ever wrong with Drew was his inexperience. He was extremely mature for his age. He's a great team player and a great leader and an extremely hard worker.

I don't know if I've ever seen a quarterback play as efficiently or effectively as Drew Stanton.

I don't know if it was a good life. He suffered a lot. I would take Drew back in a minute any way that I could get him, but I feel that's selfish.

I didn't feel like Drew. If I felt like Drew I'd be a millionaire. I just didn't want to lose. I didn't want to go home yet. It's too soon for that.

Ingmar Bergman

Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness.

Jack Kirby

Our dreams make us large.

Jack Kerouac

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.

Jack Gilbert

I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.

Most people by this time would be so wounded, they couldn't do anything with their lives. But his uncle filled Saddam with dreams of glory.

One hundred points? At 18? This kid's doing something most people can't imagine or dream of.

Joshua Morrow

One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls.

Krista has big dreams. She's very driven. She wants to be all that she can be.

W. S. Gilbert

I think Drew is really light-hearted, really sweet, and really generous. Who she is as a person is way more important than who she is as a celebrity.

Michael Irvin

I said it to Drew in my brash, young, ignorant way, I don't know who it is know, but I know who will be in about 10 years.

Illeana Douglas

My mom was a schoolteacher, and when I read the script, I saw her leaping out at me. It's actually her dress I'm wearing in the opening scenes.

My mother put a large chalkboard in her kitchen where I could draw. I drew what I saw around me.

Buck Showalter

I might get Drew a start down the line but I don't see it right now.

Bhagat Singh

The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out.