Famous Quotes & Sayings

Igor Stravinsky

The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.

Ian Rush

You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.

Ian Rankin

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.

Iain Sinclair

London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone.

Ian Bogost

We have been trained to think we have enormous power over the world. Whatever you dream, you can do. Anything can be bent to your will. But actually isn't it much more interesting to imagine that you're quite small?

Hugo Chavez

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

Hugh Bonneville

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

Hrithik Roshan

Do I look like a sex-symbol or a pin-up boy? It's just that my father presented me like a dream.

Howard Zinn

There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams of writers and artists through the ages: that people might cooperatively use the treasures of the earth to make life better for everyone, not just a few.

Hortense Calisher

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

Hortense Calisher

The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.

Horace

If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

Hannah Arendt

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Guy Forget

When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.

Guy Fieri

I know how lucky I am. I never take it for granted. In this country [USA], anything can happen - anybody can be what they want to be. All I ever wanted was to be a good husband and father, a good chef, and to have my own restaurant. And the celebrity was never expected. Wouldn't have even dared dream of it. And here I am. So anyone's dreams can come true. And I'm very, very grateful for everything that's come my way. I thank everyone who enjoys what I do.

Guy deBord

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

Guy de Maupassant

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

Guy de Maupassant

The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me dream.' 'Make me laugh.' 'Make me shiver.' 'Make me weep.' 'Make me think.'

Guy de Maupassant

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Guy de Maupassant

A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!

Guy de Maupassant

breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

Guy Finley

Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.

Guy Finley

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

Gina Lollobrigida

My cinema - the '50s, '60s - is different from the cinema today so I thought that it would not be bad to show that kind of cinema where we could dream.

Gina Carano

When you dream big, you eventually attract big things.

Gillian Flynn

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

Gillian Jacobs

It's sometimes hard to accept that the people you love and feel the closest to may have different dreams and goals from yours, and those are valid. And I've felt that way: accepting people's differences and recognizing them as valid choices even if they're different from your own.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

Gianni Versace

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

Gianni Versace

I liked women as a shape to dress.

Gianni Versace

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

Giancarlo Esposito

There is a dream that the world could be at peace, but that requires that all the folks with arms disarm, or take over all the arms and allow us to trust them.