Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Doerr

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

Anthony Doerr

Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

Anthony Hamilton

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.

Anthony Daniels

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

Anne Wojcicki

Im at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.

Annette Funicello

Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.

Anne Tyler

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Anne Tyler

I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping ...

Anne Tyler

I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.

Anne Tyler

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

Angela Lindvall

I live a normal life, I take care of our baby, I cook, and I look forward to the weekend so I can spend some time with my husband. It's the kind of change we all secretly dream of, but which isn't always easy to deal with.

Amy Hempel

Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.

Amy Grant

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Alvar Aalto

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

Allison Janney

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

Anne Rivers Siddons

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

Anne Perry

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

Anne Robinson

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

Anne Sexton

I, in my brand new body, which was not a woman's yet, told the stars my questions and thought God could really see the heat and the painted light, elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight.

Anne Sexton

My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that bangs in my throat.

Anne Sexton

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.

Anne Sexton

The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

Anne Sexton

I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...

Anne Sexton

Dead drunk is the term I think of, insensible, neither cool nor warm, without a head or a foot. To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.

Anne Sexton

Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting.

Anne Sexton

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

Anne Sexton

In a dream you are never eighty.

Anne Rice

You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.

Anne Rice

But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.

Anne Rice

Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.

Anne Rice

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

Anne Rice

From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart.

Anne Rice

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us