Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. G. Ballard

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

J. G. Ballard

In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy, and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to assume that it is a complete fiction - conversely, the one small node of reality left to us is inside of our own heads.

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.

My Lord and Master has summoned me, His minstrel, to the True Mansion of His Presence. He has dressed me in the robes of His True Praise and 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.

Charles Sawyer

Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.

Nelson Mandela

It is a realization of a dream for me to be here to come and pledge my solidarity with my friend Yasser Arafat,

It is a Reagan personnel officer's dream come true. It is a graduation. These individuals have been in study and preparation for these roles all their professional lives.

Jarret Stoll

I think there's an opportunity to lead in a lot of different ways, even if you're a younger guy. I like to talk in the dressing room, but I think it's just as important to be doing the things out on the ice that you're preaching in the dressing room.

Jermaine Dye

Just getting back to where I was my rookie year, this is everybody's dream. We're just living a dream so far. Hopefully we can get that jewelry at the end.

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

Koizumi's dream of keeping yields low during a recovery will probably fail. His government can't prevent the increase in yields as the economy extends its expansion.

Last weekend was a bummer. It was our dream to get the squad to State and we thought we were capable.

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.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I saw my aunties and my mum give up a part of themselves and their dreams to have kids. There were things they wanted to achieve in life, but they had kids instead.

I saw an opportunity to pursue a dream of mine. I'm ready for the commitment. I'm confident. If I had any doubts, I'd probably still be in school.

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.

Edgar Allan Poe

Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream.

Bobby Robson

I said to the lads in the dressing room at half time, I said, there was nothing to say.

Bill Snyder

I sat by my locker, and tears ran down my face. The man was a legend. He made some of my dreams come true.

People love the horse, and that's what it is all about. This is something that money can't buy. I've owned horses for 27 years, and you dream of something like this. But I never dreamed that I'd have the wonder horse.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

Stanford has always been my dream. Being able to play volleyball at the next level is a dream come true.

Some girls go out with mom, go dress shopping, have a good time and make a day of it. Girls that come to us don't have other options.

Somehow I don't remember everybody dressing like this - at least not here, maybe in New York,

George Bernard Shaw

Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''

Robert James

Some men have volunteered to dress up as women. It could get scary.

Some people are having orange dresses made; some are wearing retro orange dresses or orange jackets.

Erin O'Connor

My style has been nurtured over time. It's more about knowing what doesn't suit you. I love suits and anything sharp, and I know that shape suits me. I don't feel feminine in floaty dresses with spaghetti straps - I feel more like Freddie Mercury in drag.

Allegra Versace

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.