Famous Quotes & Sayings

Azar Nafisi

i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream.

Azar Nafisi

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

Ayelet Zurer

I grew up watching a lot of Italian and French movies, so I want to have that '70s look, in my dream movie. I want that thing that's not so much happening now, that's existentialist.

Ayn Rand

Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.

Terry Crews

I just want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be on a show like 'The Newsroom.' I've always dreamed of being on something this important and being on a show that really resonates with a lot of very, very intelligent people in the world, and I've gained such a loyal fan base.

Gerald Scarfe

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

Reggie Theus

We're playing on pins and needles. We can't have a drop in our confidence, because we have so many deficiencies on our team.

Reed Hastings

We tried not to get drunk on the future, but actually to predict it accurately.

Jeff Davis

We've been in a state of mind where we've been worried about a slowdown dragging down the U.S. economy,

We really have some people, especially women, who go all out. They rent limos for before and dress up in the formalwear and the furs.

Warrick Dunn

We really had to wear down a great front four. Their guys are beasts, but ... that drive was a monster.

We really got up on him and kind of took him out of his rhythm early. We wanted him to have to dribble to his shot and get in the paint. He's a jump shooter. That's how he makes his living -- making threes.

We're a driven team. We know what we want and what we need to get it.

We're able to go back to kicking the way we did in college, ... being able to stay on that foot, being able to drive into the ball, going into a kickoff full speed.

We ran out yesterday, but we got a drop this morning.

We ran into problems getting the drawings and permitting together. A lot of the people involved with the project had so much work on their hands, on top of this.

We ran a screen and roll and it was open all night for the drive so we were hoping it would open up the 3. Tim got it to me, I had a little trouble handling it, but once I let it go, I knew it was on line.

Troy Glaus

We're always trying to get it done and drive in those runs. Tonight it worked out. Hopefully the next 30-35 games we have left, we can keep it going.

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Richie Ashburn

Yes, let me tell you about Pete Rose. If ever Pete took one drink at lunch, he would be an alcoholic by nightfall. It doesn't matter what: baseball, gambling, women. Rose is the most obsessive man I've ever met.

John Ridley

Yes, it's hard to stay in shape, but it's also hard to raise kids. That doesn't mean you get to drop them off at your local fire station when they get to be a handful.

We had no offensive continuity. We just kind of sat around as if we really didn't know what to do and no matter what, we just couldn't get out of that dry spell.

We didn't want to have to go into the draft trying to hit 10 different spots. We had hand-selected a group of guys that we thought if we could get one or two, we'd be in great shape. We've ended up with four.

We didn't understand the whole thing. We just knew that going to the State Tournament has been our dream for five years. We didn't want it taken from us.

Charles Bukowski

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

Charles Bukowski

I used to lay drunk in alleys and I probably will again.Bukowski, who is he? I read about Bukowski and it doesn't seem like anything to do with me.

Charles Bukowski

It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.

Charles Bukowski

when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

Charles Bukowski

When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.

Charles Bukowski

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

Charles Bukowski

Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it’s enough…

Charles Bukowski

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

Charles Bukowski

we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.