Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.

Bruce Wilkinson

A Dreamer is a person whose life is in motion.

Bernardo Bertolucci

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

Bill Veeck

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

Andrew O'Hagan

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

David A. Adler

Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

Carson McCullers

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Bruce Lee

Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

Adam Green

To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.

Douglas Adams

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

Alan Greenspan

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

Carlos Castaneda

Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.

Ashton Eaton

I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.

Bryant H. McGill

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

Albert Camus

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

Amelia Earhart

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

Anne Lamott

I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.

David Platt

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

Dan Brown

As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.