Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Dowson

Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream...

Erik Satie

My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.

Erin Gruwell

It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. ... World peace is only a dream because people won't allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts. We won't allow the color of a man's heart to be the color of his skin, the premise of his beliefs, and his self-worth. We won't allow him to be a peanut, therefore we won't allow ourselves to come to live in harmony. (Diary 18)

Erin Morgenstern

Which tent is your favourite?" he asks. "The Ice Garden," Celia answers, without even pausing to consider. "Why is that?" Marco asks. "Because of the way it feels," she says. "It's like walking into a dream. As though it is someplace else entirely and not simply another tent...

Erin Morgenstern

You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.

Erin Morgenstern

I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.

Erin Morgenstern

But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Erin Morgenstern

But you built me dreams instead.

Erin Morgenstern

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

Erin Morgenstern

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

Erin Morgenstern

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Erin Morgenstern

He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.

Erin Morgenstern

Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

Erin Morgenstern

At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern. After midnight the clock begins once more to fold in upon itself. The face lightens and the clouds return. The number of juggled balls decreases until the juggler himself vanishes. By noon it is a clock again, and no longer a dream.

Erin Morgenstern

Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself

Erin Morgenstern

I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.

Cassandra Clare

We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt-I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted-and then I realized that truly I just wanted you

Gary Busey

I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

Gareth Bale

Hello, it's a dream for me to play for Real Madrid. Thank you for the great welcome. Go Madrid!

Gao Xingjian

They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.

Gao Xingjian

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

Fritz Zwicky

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.

Freddy Fender

I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

Freddy Adu

That's the dream. Being on the U.S. National team and winning the World Cup. I'll take the win anyway I can get it.

Freddy Adu

It's awesome where I am right now. It's a lot of people's dream. I'm going to take full advantage of it.

Frederic Chopin

My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country.

Frederic Chopin

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

Frederic Chopin

I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness...

Freddie Mercury

A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it

Freddie Mercury

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

Frank Perdue

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

George Chapman

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

George Carlin

I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream. So there is some compulsion involved. But the dividend I get is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.