Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. B. Yehoshua

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

A. A. Milne

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

A. A. Milne

Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.

A. E. Housman

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

A. E. Housman

On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.

A. E. Housman

To justify God's ways to man.

A. A. Milne

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

James L. Brooks

That's the great thing about a series: you're driving to work, and you have an idea for a story for your characters, and you can go into work, and it's gonna be a television show. I mean that's what's great about the job.

Aeschylus

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Aeschylus

Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

Aeschylus

Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

Aeschylus

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Adrienne Rich

The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.

Adrienne Rich

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

Adrienne Rich

When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder

Adrienne Rich

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Adrienne Rich

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

Adrienne Rich

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

Agatha Christie

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

Agatha Christie

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

Adrienne Bailon

I try to encourage young people to follow their dreams. Even if you're born in an urban community it's always something available to you whether it be a dance class or whether you do really good in school and you can get a scholarship. So if you just put your mind to it and if you educate people enough and they know that they can find resources to help them get to where they need to go then that's really important.

Adrian Peterson

I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.

Adriana Trigiani

A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.

Adriana Trigiani

For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

Adrian Rogers

I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.

We play up tempo. The only drawback to it was that we didn't do a very good job of looking into the post. We settled too much off the dribble tonight.

Bob Johnson

We played with a lot of drive and a lot of spirit. A pizza for every two guys!

We practice no-huddle offense at the end of practice every day. You can't drop the snap on a play like that, you can't do it. I don't give a (darn) if it's high school ? you just can't do it.

We practice and drill going to the line tired. But you can't simulate going to the line at Reynolds Coliseum with a tie game and 6 seconds to go. He did something he's going to remember for the rest of his life.

We pounded on the drill steel and received no response. We'll do same.

Shane Carruth

In school, when I got into upper-level math, there would be times when I would wake up from a dream and have - not an answer, exactly, but a direction to pursue. My writing has always been like that. I wake up from dreams knowing which direction to go in.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Trey Anastasio

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.