Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Korda

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

Michael Korda

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

Markus Zusak

She gave 'The Dream Carrier' to Max as if words alone could nourish him.

Abdul Kalam

Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.

Abraham Lincoln

The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said:He is a very common-looking man. The President replied:The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.

Never did I think we'd score 15 runs on this bunch. Never in my wildest dreams.

Jean Chatzky

People with financial plans are much more likely to feel prepared, even in tumultuous times. They're more likely to feel that their dreams and goals are secure. And, oh yes, they do actually save significantly more.

Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell.

I am so proud of them. I knew I had a good team, but I didn't in my wildest dreams think we would get to the Sweet 16 again.

Never in my wildest dreams or fantasies did I think I would be running an Internet company, ... I was as traditional as it got.

Alastair Cook

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be heading to Pakistan,

If all you know of the world is serving your master, then that's as far as your dreams will take you.

Hugh Johnson

I expected the market to inch or edge forward. I wouldn't have expected this in my wildest dreams.

Nick Bollettieri

For me, this is what a coach's dream is, to be able to rekindle the kind of promise and love of the game that a player had when she first started out, ... She's very happy and healthy.

If you are going to dream, ... dream big.

If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

William Butler Yeats

I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

I have always dreamed of being a Marine. I thought they were the elite, the ones who stepped in when everyone else failed.

Miranda Hart

I have lots of ambitions. I'd love to do theatre. I'd like to be in 'Tea With Mussolini 2;' I'd like to touch Meryl Streep - which would involve being with her in some exotic location. I have lots of fantastical dreams.

Rachel Platten

I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.

Jim Abbott

It was always just trying to move to the next limit. I didn't think about making the major leagues - every kid has that dream, I had it, but when I was in Little League I just wanted to make the junior high team. When I was in junior high, I wanted to make the Varsity team.

Jesse Jackson

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.

James A. Baldwin

The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

Jacques Roumain

A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)

Jacqueline McKenzie

It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'

Jacqueline Winspear

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

Jacqueline Carey

Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing

Jacqueline Novogratz

Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.

Jacqueline Novogratz

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

Jacqueline Novogratz

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

Jackie Gleason

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.