Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Garnett

The fact that she pays the overhead of her employees and the foundation itself and just goes out and makes dreams come true ... I think it makes it more beneficial, ... It's a good thing.

Raza Jaffrey

When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'

Suzanne Fields

The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.

Stephen Colletti

It's hard because people always say, 'Follow your dreams,' but it's not a perfect world, and things don't always work out. But you've just got to work hard, and you can't take things for granted.

Anna Kendrick

In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.

Tim Minear

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

Tracy Morgan

God gave us dreams, but he gave us kids to make all those dreams worthwhile. And when I look at all my kids, I say everything that I've ever went through in my life was worthwhile.

Josie Loren

I think everyone has dreams, and it's just how you go about pursuing that. And I think anybody can do anything that they set their mind to. So if you set your mind to do something, and you exhaust every opportunity, I think you're going to get there.

Jimmy Cliff

It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.'

Isabel Yosito

May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove.

George Savile

The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times.

Robby Ginepri

Just a little fling and that's over with, ... And now I think I'm making my name with tennis. So that's what I'm here to do.

Chris Stevens

It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.

Kurt Warner

I don't know if he can read anything. The first receiver better be open, but he can fling it.

Julian Lennon

I'm not one for flings, I can tell you that.

Charles Dickens

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

David Sedaris

At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.

Alan Watts

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

Edmund Spenser

So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

James Whistler

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

Juvenal

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

Bill Watterson

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

Alexei Navalny

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.

David Brooks

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Jason Aldean

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

Cheryl Richardson

If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?

Cheryl Strayed

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

Eckhart Tolle

Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.

Bruce Springsteen

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

C. L. R. James

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Bruno Tonioli

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Pat Conroy

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Ruth Ginsburg

What is subtle about what is described here?

Paul Muni

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

Todd Hollenshead

In the movie, there's a little more subtlety of where they come from, ... Do they actually come from within us and how?

Michael Schudson

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

Norah Jones

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.

Roger Scruton

Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.