Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jake Epstein

The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.

Jacques Parizeau

Don't be afraid of your dreams.

Jacques Kallis

I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far,

Jacques Ibert

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

Jacques Maritain

Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or sophistry. For it strikes him with two terrible weapons, Intuition and Beauty, and at the single root in him of all his energies... Art and Poetry awaken the dreams of man, and his longings, and reveal to him some of the abysses he has in himself.

Friedrich Schiller

Truth is more than a dream and a song.

Friedrich Schiller

Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.

Friedrich Schiller

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

Tis not for golden eloquence I pray, A godlike tongue to move a stony heart-- Methinks it were full well to be apart In solitary uplands far away, Betwixt the blossoms of a rosy spray, Dreaming upon the wonderful sweet face Of Nature, in a wild and pathless place.

Frederick Marryat

In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.

George Foreman

If you don't dream, you might as well be dead.

George Foreman

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

Jon Lovitz

I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.

Jon Meacham

I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.

Jon Kyl

It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.

Jon Heder

Just tell them that their wildest dreams will come true if they vote for you.

Jon Krakauer

But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

Jon Krakauer

Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

Jon Krakauer

I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

Jon Bernthal

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

Joko Beck

Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only teacher; being just this moment, compassion's way.

Joko Beck

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

Joko Beck

But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.

Jojo Moyes

... if you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.

Jojo Moyes

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

Jon Bon Jovi

Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

Johnny Carson

There's a lot of hypocrisy in audiences. I'd never dream of telling even on a nightclub stage, let alone my show, some of the jokes that are told in a lot of the living rooms from which we get those letters!

Johnny Carson

Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.

Luis Bunuel

I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.

Luis Bunuel

If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

Luigi Pirandello

Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.