Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shawn

We have a policy at The New Yorker, ... That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.

Dan Glickman

We have just got to roll up our sleeves and work on a variety of ways to help these folks through this terrible, terrible dry weather crisis,

We have heard a lot about losing Shaun and Mike, but I don't think there will be any drop off at all.

Bruce Beresford

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

Bruce Campbell

Only comedies can get you that engaged in a movie, dramas people just sort of sit there and eat their popcorn and nothing really happens, they might cry a little bit, but that's it. Horror movies are talking at the screen, guys are elbowing each other, laughing at each other because they got scared. That's the beauty of a horror movie.

Brion James

I liked the drama of getting stoned.

Britt Ekland

I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.

Brit Marling

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

Brian Molko

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

Brian Molko

If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.

Brian May

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

Brian May

What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.

Brian Grazer

We're interested in complex characters and he's a complex character, [ J. Edgar] Hoover. I like these types of dramas. I've made a few of them and I'm also interested in power structures so it just has elements that fascinate me, and the more you learn about Hoover, the more polarizing you realize he is.

Brian Helgeland

I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have to work in. You have to think of how to get the studio excited and sell them something.

Brian Greene

A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.

Brian Greene

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

Brett Eldredge

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

Breyten Breytenbach

Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that in order to progress we must stretch for something just out of reach--if only for a life that will be more compassionate and decent than the cruelty, paranoia, greed, narrow corporatism, or narcissism we mostly indulge in and find such ample justification for. And so we dream.

Brewster Kahle

The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further - universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically doable

Brandon Jennings

Everybody dreams about getting to the NBA and everybody dreams about having their own shoe. But when you're the face of a brand, you've got to kind of back off and let it all soak in a little bit.

Brandon Routh

Well I'm Superman, just not action. I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening. I also have a film that's premiering Vegas Film Festival, short film, directed by Joel Kelly, it's called Denial and it's a story, short film, 35 mm short film and it's about a man's struggle to choose between the woman of his dreams and his reality, so it's definitely different than Superman. So I'm really proud of that.

Brandon Routh

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

Archie Panjabi

Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.

Aravind Adiga

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

Archibald MacLeish

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

Ben Okri

I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Ben Okri

a dream can be the highest point of a life

Ben Okri

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

Ben Okri

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it

Ben Okri

Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

Ben Okri

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

Ben Okri

One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.