Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lloyd Alexander

And so they lived many happy years, and the promised tasks were accomplished. Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it.

LL Cool J

Do something that gets you closer to your dream today!

LL Cool J

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

LL Cool J

Dreams don't have deadlines. Believe in yourself.

LL Cool J

I'm a big believer that dreams don't have deadlines!

LL Cool J

Dreams don't have deadlines...

LL Cool J

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

Manu Ginobili

I have dreams inside of me, and I have a chance to make them true.

Manuel Puig

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

Manuel Puig

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Manolo Blahnik

It's the only thing I get inspired by! I get inspired by dreams. Who cares about the rest?

Mao Zedong

Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.

Madeleine M. Kunin

The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Politics creates an almost endless time horizon into the future. ... As governor I had the incredible luxury of being able to dream on a grand scale. And this sense of infinite possibility gives politics its romance.

Madeleine L'Engle

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.

Madeleine L'Engle

In my dreams, I never have an age.

Madeleine L'Engle

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe ..

Madeleine L'Engle

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

Madeleine L'Engle

We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?

Lucy Hale

When I dress up for events, I prefer Marc Jacobs and Dior. But I dream about wearing Chanel one day.

Lucy Hale

My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.

Lucy Hale

I love music so much and that kind of takes away from the fact that I am missing out on some things. I have always known that I wanted to be a singer and I knew that meant sacrificing some things for my dream. When I am home I hang out with my friends and go to dances, so I try and partake in some of the activities that I miss out on.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!

Lucy Maud Montgomery

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. [....] Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism. All the Beyond was hers, with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years — each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.