Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Todd

Barack Obamas official nomination as the Democratic Partys standard-bearer was a very poignant moment for millions of Americans. As the first non-white major party nominee, Obama is carrying a big load on his shoulders. Hes holding the hopes and dreams of a lot of folks who thought the presidency was only reserved for white men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

Alfred Bester

The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

Alfred de Vigny

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Alfred de Vigny

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

Alfred de Musset

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

Alfred de Musset

I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.

Alfred de Musset

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

Alfred de Musset

In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.

Alfred Hitchcock

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

Alfred Hitchcock

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Alfred Austin

Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.

Alfred Austin

My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

Alfred Adler

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Angela Carter

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

Angela Carter

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

Amy Seimetz

I've never really dreamed of owning a home. I don't think you go into the arts and also dream of owning a home.

Amy Seimetz

I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.

Amy Seimetz

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

Amy Schumer

Everyone is allowed to have their own boundaries. You just are. No matter how you dress, no matter what you say or anything, and I feel strongly about that.

Amy Schumer

I have an excuse, actually, why I've been drinking so much. I haven't said this out loud yet - this is exciting - I'm drinking for two. Thank you, wow. I mean, just for now. Somebody's being evicted.

Amy Schumer

You know what the worst part about my drinking is? When I'm drunk I slur. You know, like I say racial slurs. Wow, nobody likes that at a barbeque.

Amy Sedaris

If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

Amy Sedaris

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

Amy Sedaris

I like dramas and stuff. That's what I watch, but it seems weird that I'd be in it.

Amy Tan

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

Ally Sheedy

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

Alphonso Jackson

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

Alphonse Karr

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.