Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amelia Earhart

Everyone has ocean's to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?

Annie Besant

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.

Annie Leibovitz

All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.

Annie Lennox

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

Annie Lennox

I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.

Annie Lennox

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

Annie Dillard

It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of the senses, in love with beauty and power, oblivious to herself -- and then suddenly, bingo, she wakes up and feels herself alive. She notices her own awareness. And she notices that she is set down here, mysteriously, in a going world.

AnnaSophia Robb

When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.

AnnaLynne McCord

I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.

Anna Neagle

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

Anna Quindlen

How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us? It is a miracle. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

Anna Quindlen

Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life. And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.

Anna Quindlen

This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.

Anna Quindlen

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

Anna Quindlen

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

Angelique Kidjo

Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.

Cindy Klassen

Growing up, you always dream of winning a gold medal. But coming into these Games, it wasn't something I was focused on. I'm just enjoying skating. This is the best season ever. I think that this year, my 3,000 meters has been stronger than the 1,500. The 1,500 has been anybody's race this year. When I was first, I still didn't know if that was enough.

Cindy Margolis

I married the man of my dreams in 1998.

Chuck Todd

Barack Obamas official nomination as the Democratic Partys standard-bearer was a very poignant moment for millions of Americans. As the first non-white major party nominee, Obama is carrying a big load on his shoulders. Hes holding the hopes and dreams of a lot of folks who thought the presidency was only reserved for white men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

Alfred Bester

The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

Alfred de Vigny

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Alfred de Musset

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

Alfred de Musset

I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.

Alfred de Musset

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

Alfred de Musset

In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.

Alfred Austin

Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.

Alfred Austin

My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

Angela Carter

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

Angela Carter

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

Amy Seimetz

I've never really dreamed of owning a home. I don't think you go into the arts and also dream of owning a home.

Amy Sedaris

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.