Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harlan Ellison

You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them.

Harlan Coben

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

Harlan Coben

The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

Harlan Coben

Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read. That is not true, of course. We all have our own dreams and hopes and wants and lust and heartaches. We all have our own brand of crazy

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.

Gustave Moreau

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

Gustave Moreau

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream...

Gustave Flaubert

She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly voices that enchanted her. Now she saw herself as one of those amoureuses whom she had so envied: she was becoming, in reality, one of that gallery of fictional figures; the long dream of her youth was coming true.

Gustave Flaubert

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

Gustave Flaubert

Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.

Gustave Flaubert

In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.

Gustave Flaubert

Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.

Gustave Flaubert

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

John Dryden

My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.

John Maynard Keynes

But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .

John Locke

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

John Lennon

It was very romantic. It's all in the song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. If you want to know how it happened, it's in there. Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn't find a white suit -​ I had sort of off-white corduroy trousers and a white jacket. Yoko had all white on.

John Kufuor

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

A lot of these guys, when they were kids, dreamed of playing in the NHL.

Elliott Smith

They don't put any pressure on me to do anything in particular and Dreamworks didn't either so this was a really easy record to make.

Ricky Hatton

This is the position I've always dreamed of being in.

It's a dream come true. Now it's time for us to do something.

It's a real dream come true to win here. Roland Hemond once told me to enjoy the moment and that's what I'm going to do. The hardest thing to do is win the division. It takes six months. Now we can look forward to playing in October.

Joe Girardi

I took this situation because I wanted this situation and I wanted these kids. We all want to help these kids succeed. We all want to help them realize their dreams and become great players.

Mike Timlin

This is what we all come to do. Guys don't come to the big leagues dreaming they'll be in last place and go home at the end of September.

Marcos Baghdatis

It's a big day for me. It's been a dream for me to play tennis at this level.

It was everything I dreamed it would be. It was just so much fun. This was my first Olympic Games, and it lived up to every expectation.

It was always a dream of mine. Since I was a player, I wanted to come back and give back to the program that gave me so much. I just want the girls to have the experience that I had and to learn what I learned.

Samantha Fox

As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.

Corey Hart

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

Shane Carruth

In school, when I got into upper-level math, there would be times when I would wake up from a dream and have - not an answer, exactly, but a direction to pursue. My writing has always been like that. I wake up from dreams knowing which direction to go in.

Tom Verica

I am definitely most proud of 'American Dreams.'