Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Fitch

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

Janet Fitch

They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands that sculpted sweetness from sullen flesh, that traced breast and ignited hips, opening, kneading. Flesh becomes bread in the heat of those hands, braided and rising.

Janet Fitch

Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.

Jane Porter

in his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ...

Jane Roberts

Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes.

Jane Roberts

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.

Jane Roberts

The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.

Jane Roberts

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

Euripides

Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.

Esther Williams

The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.

Etgar Keret

When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write, I really want to find out what is going on-I'm writing for myself as a reader. It's like when you dream a dream. I want to know what's behind the door. If I navigate, it's from a place that's totally intuitive.

Ethan Hawke

Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to enter his dream as opposed to, you know, a guy like Sidney Lumet or something is going to ask you to create a character almost like a documentary. He wants you to make the people really real and he's going to capture it like a documentarian.

Ethan Hawke

When you make a movie with Alejandro Amenábar, he very quickly... it was very clear you're kind of operating in his dream universe.

Ethan Hawke

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

Ethan Hawke

I've very rarely worked with somebody that had such a clear idea of what Alejandro Amenábar wanted to do and what he wanted to achieve. The guy is incredibly prepared. He was clearly making a movie for himself and his own dream. I just tried to be a part of that dream. It's a rare opportunity.

Ethan Hawke

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

Errol Flynn

My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.

Errol Flynn

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

Ernst Mach

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

They managed to sleep together, but there wasn't enough for dreaming.

Erin Morgenstern

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

Christian Louboutin

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.

Greta Gerwig

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

Herman Melville

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Henry David Thoreau

A goal is a dream taken seriously.

Jill Scott

Don't stop dreaming just because you had a nightmare.

Jeremy Bonderman

Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.

Jennifer Carpenter

One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.

Gregory Benford

SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious. Anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out. Nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible.

James De La Vega

I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

Gloria Estefan

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

Jencarlos Canela

The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.