Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

Oleg Cassini

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

Olga Kurylenko

A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

Olga Kurylenko

Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

Olive Schreiner

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Nydia Velazquez

Because of Obama ... DREAMers who are American in every way except on paper no longer live under the shadow of deportation.

Octavia Spencer

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

Octavio Paz

Deserve your dream.

Ntozake Shange

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

Novak Djokovic

Messi is the best player on the planet and he keeps on improving at Barça, now the best team in the world. What Messi does on and off the pitch is an inspiration for children who dream of becoming a footballer.

Novak Djokovic

I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.

Novak Djokovic

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

Novak Djokovic

I want to win and I feel that pressure, but my career will not be a disaster if I do not win there. It is a dream to fulfill.

Novalis

Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.

Novalis

Imagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.

Novalis

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Norman Vincent Peale

Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!

Norman Vincent Peale

A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.

Norman Vincent Peale

I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be....

Norman Vincent Peale

Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming. Be mentally sensitive at all times so that the magic word that motivates you may one day speak to your deep inner self.

Emile Zola

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

Emile Zola

Everything is only a dream.

Emile M. Cioran

I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?

Emile M. Cioran

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

Emile M. Cioran

We are all geniuses when we dream.

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

Ellen McLaughlin

In Angels in America, I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.

Ellen Key

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

Ellen Glasgow

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

Ellen Glasgow

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

Eric Ripert

When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I'd flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day.