Famous Quotes & Sayings

Armand Assante

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

Robert Greenblatt

My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.

Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I'm going to hit the stage and perform.

Music makes me happy and singing makes me happy, so this just seems like the thing to do. I've had a dream of going to Nashville since I was a junior in high school.

William Wordsworth

More like a man/ Flying from something that he dreads than one/ Who sought the thing he loved.

Jennifer Finnigan

'Monday Mornings' is so utterly different - in so many ways - from anything else I've done, really. I also desperately wanted an ensemble piece, but I couldn't have dreamed of being a part of something like this. I am so lucky.

Jerry Rice

My hat goes off to Drew and Cheryl. It's well-deserved.

My father was a doctor, and for as long as I have known, I wanted to be a physician. At my kindergarten graduation, you dressed up as what you wanted to be. I dressed as a doctor. I wanted to emulate my father.

Kyle Petty

Maybe this will put the dreaded Intrepid thing to rest. Maybe the Charger is the way we need to go.

Maybe the wildest dreams are but the needful preludes of the truth.

Now we're here, going for the Olympics. This year, we finally made it and it's a dream come true for us.

Neither Dennis nor Ken ever dreamed it would still be in use 30 years later.

Never in my wildest dreams or fantasies did I think I would be running an Internet company, ... I was as traditional as it got.

Never in my wildest dreams had I thought it would last 50 years.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think winning 24 games and getting to play in this environment was possible. We set the number of 17 as our main goal because that was the school record for wins. But what these kids accomplished is a tribute to them.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think we'd have a twenty-point lead at the half.

O. Henry

Never in my wildest dreams did I think this would happen.

Alastair Cook

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be heading to Pakistan,

Never in my dreams did I expect a season like this. I am still a little shocked.

Laurie Anderson

When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded.

We had a wonderful year last year. And ever since it ended we've been worried about that dreaded sophomore slump.

Chris Cornell

She gives the night its dreams.

Tyra Banks

'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read about this magical world that's been living in my dreams for so many years.

Twyla Tharp

I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.

Charles Spurgeon

As for His failing you, never dream of it -- hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.

Dick Wolf

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

Diane Sawyer

The dream is not the destination but the journey.

Diane Sawyer

You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole different story.

Diane Kruger

I never thought I would have an opportunity to act in the United States, and continue to expand my career outside of Europe. To be honest, my reality is bigger than I would have ever dared to dream.

Dennis Quaid

We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our conscience in his embodiment of the Old Code ethical behavior and morality. At the same time, he's our unconscious, the place from which our dreams arise. I just spoke my lines to the dragon within me.

Dennis Prager

The entire European Union is a left-wing dream

Denis Johnson

And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead, that’s not the great pity. I mean that he couldn’t tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn’t tell him what was real.

Deborah Smith

There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by language), with the past constantly bleeding into the present, dreams into reality. And the language, while incredibly lyrical in places, also has this underlying dissonance, the sense of it having itself been translated.