Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Cowell

I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.

Simon Cowell

I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.

Rick Riordan

The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a stake. What she got instead was almost as terrifying: a sing-along.

Rick Riordan

Is that me?,' Leo said. 'Like me--having this dream--looking at me having a dream?

Rick Riordan

I couldn't help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke's arms. Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn't save my friend.

Rick Riordan

For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.

Rick Riordan

I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food.

Rick Riordan

Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.

Richard Brautigan

Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept like a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.

Richard Brautigan

I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.

Richard Branson

Unless you dream, nothing will happen. If you dream, you might be able to make your dreams come true.

Rene Char

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

Reese Witherspoon

We’re more than just our dresses.

Richard Branson

If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success

Richard Branson

At the end, entrepreneurship is not about wearing expensive suits and earning a lot of money. It is all about being true to yourself, to your values in life. Your dreams.

Richard Branson

Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized

Richard Branson

We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty of our planet from above, the stars in all their glory and the amazing sensations of weightlessness and space flight.

Richard Branson

Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.

Richard Branson

Unless you dream, you're not going to achieve anything.

Richard Branson

There's no better satisfaction than watching the people around you, who have worked day and night to get something right, realising the dream.

Richard Branson

Dream big and you will be presented with the opportunity to lead the world on an incredible adventure.

Richard Branson

Those people who spend their time working on things they love are usually the ones enjoying life the most. They are also the ones who dared to take a risk and chase their dreams.

Richard Branson

I believe in goals. It's never a bad thing to have a dream. If something is really what you want to do, just do it. Whatever your goal.

Richard Branson

Dreaming is one of humanity’s greatest gifts - it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.

Swami Vivekananda

Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!

Swami Vivekananda

Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.

Swami Vivekananda

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Swami Vivekananda

Say So'ham, So'ham whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly-that what we see never existed, that there is only I. Flash-the dream will break! Think day and night, this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

Swami Vivekananda

I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!

Swami Vivekananda

Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.

Swami Vivekananda

Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body is only an inert instrument. And the Atman within is your real nature.

Tippi Hedren

Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

Tinie Tempah

I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.