Famous Quotes & Sayings

Valerie Simpson

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

Valerie Trierweiler

I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.

Van Jones

In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.

Van Jones

Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions.

Van Morrison

Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.

Van Morrison

You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

Van Morrison

The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.

Van Morrison

Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold

Van Morrison

If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?

Van Morrison

Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.

Van Morrison

You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.

Ursula Burns

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

Uri Geller

I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.... Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.... Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don't tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming, another third of it spent in telling lies.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sometimes a god comes.... He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.

Ursula K. Le Guin

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Dreams take short cuts.

Ursula K. Le Guin

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

Tzipi Livni

I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.

Tyne Daly

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

Tyson Chandler

The only thing I wanted in free agency was an opportunity to continue to chase that dream and continue to win championships.?

Tyrese Gibson

The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.

Tyrese Gibson

People are dream killers--you've got to be careful who you give emotional access to.

Tyra Banks

There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are

Robert K. Greenleaf

A statement of vision is the overarching purpose, the big dream, the visionary concept-something presently out of reach-so stated that it excites the imagination and chlalenges people to work for something they do not yet know how to do.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.

Robert James Waller

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.

Robert James Waller

Life is never easy for those who dream.

Robert Hunter

When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my harp to sever, And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears... I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And dream me a dream of my own, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own.

Robert Hunter

Without love in a dream it will never come true

Roddy Doyle

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

Robyn

You cant censor peoples dreams.

Robyn Hitchcock

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.