Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. J. McLean

The perfect day is going to bed with a dream and waking up with a purpose.

Aaron Ashmore

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so too be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it.

A. R. Rahman

That's the sound design. I watched it sixty times because we were constantly tweaking. The same thing comes twice, right? Once it comes in the beginning when he's about to discover that he needs to come out and one is the dream where he's flattered (??) and then he comes out. The last one, instead of going bigger, we made it smaller. We removed elements and thinned it out. So it doesn't drive him. He drives the music rather than the other way around.

A. R. Rahman

My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.

A. S. Byatt

Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

Roxane Gay

I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.

Sania Mirza

As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to.

Ranbir Kapoor

I will never have a problem working with anybody. I will even work with a man if he dresses up like a woman, because it's my job. I am here to act.

Randy Pausch

Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

Abbie Cornish

I've got heaps of dreams.

Abbas Kiarostami

I had intended to make another film, called Pocket Money, which was to be about children at a school.I was very much intrigued by the story [of Close Up] - it came into my dreams and I was very much influenced by it. So I called my producer and asked that we put aside Pocket Money and start something else, and he agreed.

A. B. Yehoshua

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

A. A. Milne

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

A. A. Milne

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

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.