Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Paolini

Kvetha, Shur'tugal Greetings, Dragon Rider

Christopher Meloni

I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.

Christopher Meloni

I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that

Christopher Moore

Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet.

Christopher Moore

They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like themselves who will mirror their illusions.

Christopher Moore

Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet - they haven't completely juiced you of your usefulness yet. Would Martin Luther King back down from this challenge? Malcolm X? James Brown? Don't you have a dream? Don't you feel good, like you knew that you would, now?

Christopher Moore

Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, ‘I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.

Ansel Adams

"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""

Ansel Adams

Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.

You can plant a dream.

Anne Bronte

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity.

Angie Harmon

~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~

Andrew Buchan

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

Andrew Clements

I glance into the faces of all these people out for a Sunday stroll, but I'm not seeing eyes and noses and mouths. I'm seeing stories. Every person has a story. All the hopes and dreams. And fears. And secrets. In every face.

Andrew Card

The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

Andrew Bird

Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.

Andrew Carnegie

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

Andrea Navedo

My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life.

Amos Oz

Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.

Amos Oz

Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unrealistic. They were bigger than life. These were messianic dreams, dreams about total redemption for the Jews, for the world. Such dreams do not come true, not in their entirety.

Amos Oz

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

Amos Oz

All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.

Amos Oz

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

Amos Oz

Now, Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. The fact that it is flawed is not so much a testimony about the failures of Israel. No, it is a testimony about the nature of dreams.

Amos Oz

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

Amos Oz

The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.

Amos Oz

The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Aly Raisman

Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.

Alveda King

I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.

Alvaro Uribe

The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

Ally Condie

Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have

Allyson Felix

I'm really laid back but I still like to dress up sometimes.