Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Sampras

My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Even in dreams doing good is not wasted.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

This it the greatest success I can dream of for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

Phyllis McGinley

The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.

Philip Pullman

Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?

Rachel Corrie

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

Rachel Hunter

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

Rachel Griffiths

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

Rachel Dratch

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

Rachel Cusk

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.

Rachel Cohn

Tal told me he loved me, and told me and told me, but you don't tell someone that and then tell them they're not experienced enough in bed and should read a book or something to learn, or they should try wearing deep-red lipstick and tight skirts to look hot like their best friend once in a while. If Tal hadn't lied to me when he said he loved me, I might not be without a future right now, a sucker who was so chickenshit she allowed herself to believe a false dream from a false god. I'm not sure I ever even liked Tal, much less loved him.

Rachel Cohn

I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me.

Rachel Cohn

Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.

Rachel Cohn

In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.

Rabindranath Tagore

Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer.

Rabindranath Tagore

O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

Rabindranath Tagore

Dreams can never be made captive.

Rabindranath Tagore

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Modernity is not about dress codes.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

Puff Daddy

I got a chance to have my dream come true, and I wanted to make sure I made the decision as to when I dropped my last album. If I don't feel like this album is an incredible piece of work, then I'm cool with the albums I've done. I don't have to put out another album.

Puff Daddy

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

Puff Daddy

Take the craziest dream you ever had and go after it. Make it a reality. I don't want you to dream, I want you to do.

Puff Daddy

I can't say that I've fully achieved my dream yet. I'm just starting to evolve.

Puff Daddy

If you dream and you believe, you can do it.

Puff Daddy

Don't chase the paper, chase the dream,