Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. B. Priestley

But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.

J. B. Priestley

Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

J. Cole

We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even straighten.

J. Cole

I gotta make a move, I gotta do this now, If they don't know your dreams, they can't shoot 'em down.

J. Cole

I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

J. Cole

I'll be dammed if I sit around another year, Dreamin' dreams hopin' somehow that they just appear.

J. Cole

Anything's possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles.

J. B. Smoove

Pursuing your dreams involves you accepting where you want to go. Don't allow anybody else to talk you out of things or discourage you from doing whatever you want to do. You can hold on to your dream and never pursue it or you can start pursuing it. If you can see it, or if you can envision it... it can happen.

Isaac Watts

Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream,...

Isabel Allende

His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered...

Isabel Allende

Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

Indra Nooyi

But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream

Indra Nooyi

My parents made us dream that we could be anyone that we wanted to.

Louis Walsh

Chico wants this - I'm not taking his dream away.

By and large they are dressing appropriately, ... You want them to have the freedom to express their individuality -- to a point.

Rick Barnes

By reaching the Final Four, George Mason is going through something we all dreamed about back in 1980.

Alma Guillermoprieto

But we all dream of, you know, the great novel that we will write some day when we have time. And it's probably not happening.

Hopefully, 'An American Dream' can, in some small way, let our military personnel know that they are appreciated and always in our prayers. Any way that we can show our military that we support their efforts is not only a good idea, but I feel it is our duty as Americans.

Rob Kardashian

Honestly, I don't remember the last time I had a dream. I don't really sleep often enough to be able to have any dreams.

Jill Soloway

Being pretty... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also like dressing like a boy. I think I feel most myself when I'm mixing femininity and masculinity. Like, fifty-fifty.

Dar Williams

Hey I know where I come fromBut I have a questionShall We the People never come homeFor after all that we've beenAre the dreams to come after?

Corey Brewer

But I kept growing. I would dribble around by myself, just living that dream of winning a championship, not really knowing where it was all going to lead.

Before the season we never would have dreamed that we would be back here. Our girls gave it everything and I'm proud of every single one of them.

Harriet Tubman

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere.

Harry Belafonte

I think America offers a dream that cannot be fulfilled as easily anywhere else in the world as it could be fulfilled here. Although oppression was common to all of us, those styles of oppression gave us the opportunity to see the world in dimensions we didn't quite see growing up in any one place.

Guy Laliberte

I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun.

Guy Laliberte

Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world.

Guy Laliberte

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Guy Lafleur

It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.

Guy Maddin

If I feel like crying, I'll just cry in a dream. Something I really try not to do in my waking hours. I like good melodrama because it's just an undumping of all these compulsions we feel that we work so hard to master during our waking hours. No wonder we crash to sleep in bed at night. We have to, otherwise we'd just spend our waking hours shredding the feelings from everybody else.

Guy Maddin

I like the way we get to be uninhibited in our dreams, we don't' need to repress our behaviours like we do in our daily lives. If we lust after someone in a dream we get to possess him or her, if we dislike someone we get to express it or even strike out at them. Something I wouldn't think of doing, I don't have the courage, and it's not right either.

Guy Maddin

I just discovered that there were so many lost movies that were all mine to take if I wanted to take them. I was drunk on greed when I encountered this motherlode of utterly fascinating narratives that time's great river washed up on its banks for me to just scavenge, and not even rub clean, just repurpose and take credit for. It was kind of one of those weird dreams that where you keep finding free money.

Greg Ginn

It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there.