Famous Quotes & Sayings

Courtney Love

The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

Colin McEnroe

I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.

Colin Powell

Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?

I hope I can make more miracles, more dreams come true.

O. Henry

Wally is one of those guys who has big dreams and great plans, and nothing ever comes of them.

Amish Tripathi

When I was young, I was an academically oriented guy like most academically oriented guys. I graduated in science, did an MBA. My dreams as a young boy were I wanted to be an industrialist, or I wanted to be a scientist.

Arnold Rothstein

Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.

Blake Lively

When I see old movies with women in floor-length dressing gowns, or when they're going to the store and they've got a pillbox hat with a net over the eyes and white gloves, I'm offended that I can't go to the store like that.

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.

Antonio Munoz Molina

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.

William Butler Yeats

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Tom Bradley

The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.

Paul Allen

To be able to be even playing in an NFC championship game, with the support of all the fans, and the kind of outdoor environment that I dreamed about when I first got involved with the Seahawks, its just so rewarding and heart warming.

When you dream of others, they know it. When they dream of you you know it.

What should I tell Drew Hall? Concentrate more? He goes 4-for-5 from 19 feet, nine inches and misses two shots from 15 feet. I'm not good at math, but that doesn't make any sense to me.

We were the better team tonight. We should have won the hockey game but we didn't. The guys played their tails off. I can't go in there (the dressing room) and tell them they didn't play well. They know they played well.

The reason we won was because we were a team -- Team Connecticut was the dream team,

Louis C. K.

I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school ... Technical high school, that's where dreams are narrowed down. We tell our children, "You can do anything you want." Their whole lives. "You can do anything!" But this place, we take kids - they're 15, they're young - and we tell them, "You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you."

Shane Smith

Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island.

Eric Porter

We're treating it like part of our dress code,

Coleman Young

We need to dream big dreams, propose grandiose means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.

We thought the dream would be over at a quarter to six last night. The dream lives on. It's fantastic.

We thought it was going to happen, we've been dreaming it for 32 years,

Florentino Perez

This training facility is a dream made real. It is for Madrid fans all over the world.

Nicole Kidman

You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. I wanted to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role. Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. I still don't think I've done my best work

Peter King

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

Paul Simon

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

Paul Simon

I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're working on it all the time, and sometimes stuff'll come in the middle of the night, in a dream or something. Your mind is working on it all the time.

Ronald Reagan

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

Orson Scott Card

The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.

Orson Scott Card

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.