Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Tabucchi

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Antonin Artaud

How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.

Antonin Artaud

These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of life beyond which the paths of eternity extend. It is truly an eternal separation. They slip their knives into this center where I feel myself a man, they sever those vital ties which bind me to the dream of my lucid reality.

Antonin Artaud

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

Seth Godin

Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.

Diablo Cody

The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the doctor's office, but then you turn around and it's actually your childhood home and the doctor has turned into Ryan Reynolds.

Derek Hough

For me, a dream partner is someone who is willing to learn and to put their trust in me.

Derek Jeter

My parents always felt if I worked hard enough I could make any dream come true.

Denzel Washington

It is very important to transcend the places that hold us.

Denzel Washington

It was never my dream to be famous. I didn’t start acting to be a movie star. I started in the theater and my desire was to get better at my craft. It’s still my desire. I don’t consider myself a movie star, nor do I really have the desire to be one. I’m just an entertainer...An actor who works hard at his craft. Whatever labels people give me, that’s not really me or part of my process.

Denzel Washington

Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.

Denzel Washington

Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big.

Denise Levertov

And our dreams, with what frivolity we have pared them like toenails, clipped them like ends of split hair.

Ian Mcewan

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

We are a dream of inclusion, of education.

Bobby Valentine

We started in spring training with a dream to be here for the last game. We wanted to win the last game and we did.

Ella Wilcox

Why sit ye idly dreaming all the day,While the golden, precious hours flit away?See you not the day is waning, waning fast?That the morn's already vanished in the past?

William Shakespeare

Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!

William Shakespeare

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.

William Shakespeare

If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

William Shakespeare

A dream itself is but a shadow.

William Shakespeare

Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends?

William Shakespeare

But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.

William Shakespeare

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

William Shakespeare

Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

William Shakespeare

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

I've always dreamed of franchising an airline, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do it.

William Shakespeare

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

Kurt Vonnegut

The biggest truth to face now - what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life - is that I don't think people give a damn whether the planet goes or not. It seems to me as if everyone is living as members of Alcoholics Anonymous do, day by day. And a few more days will be enough. I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

Kurt Vonnegut

I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

Mark Cuban

You could be beaten down by anybody and by everybody and it doesn't matter what everybody else thinks it's how you see yourself and what your own dreams are. And, you know, anybody who started a business and build a business knows there's going to be lots of times when you feel beaten down and you need some motivation and that's when I turn to that book among others.