Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aeschylus

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Aeschylus

Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

Aeschylus

Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

Aeschylus

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Adrienne Rich

The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.

Adrienne Rich

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

Adrienne Rich

When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder

Adrienne Rich

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Adrienne Rich

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

Adrienne Rich

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

Agatha Christie

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

Agatha Christie

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

Adrienne Bailon

I try to encourage young people to follow their dreams. Even if you're born in an urban community it's always something available to you whether it be a dance class or whether you do really good in school and you can get a scholarship. So if you just put your mind to it and if you educate people enough and they know that they can find resources to help them get to where they need to go then that's really important.

Adrian Peterson

I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.

Adriana Trigiani

A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.

Adriana Trigiani

For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

Adrian Rogers

I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.

Adora Svitak

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

Adrian Grenier

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal.

Adam West

Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.

Adam Young

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

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.

Adam Green

To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.

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.