Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heinrich Heine

In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my little room above.

Hilary Putnam

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

Hideo Kojima

We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.

Hilary Duff

The devil comes to bring a fate you couldn't imagine in your wildest dream.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

Heraclitus

When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

Henry Ward Beecher

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

Henry Ward Beecher

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Henry Ward Beecher

A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the labor, and the struggle, represented in this vast catacomb of books. Who could dream, by the placid waters that issue from the level mouths of brooks into the lake, all the plunges, the whirls, the divisions, and foaming rushes that had brought them down to the tranquil exit? And who can guess through what channels of disturbance, and experiences of sorrow, the heart passed that has emptied into this Dead Sea of books?

Henry J. Kaiser

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.

Henry James

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

Henry James

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

Henry James

Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more will he adore you and the more all the latent beauty of his nature will come out.

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.'

Djuna Barnes

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.