Famous Quotes & Sayings

Therese of Lisieux

Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.

Therese of Lisieux

Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.

Tess Gerritsen

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

Terry Pratchett

Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion.

Terry Pratchett

But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.

Terry Pratchett

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

Terry Pratchett

Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

Terry Pratchett

Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things--unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog...

Terry Pratchett

In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?

Terry Pratchett

Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.

Marc Newson

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

Marc Jacobs

I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream.

Marc Jacobs

The best dresses are like t-shirts - you just put them on and forget about them.

Marc Jacobs

Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas.

Marc Andreessen

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later

Thomas A. Edison

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

Thomas A. Edison

You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

Thomas A. Edison

Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Sid Meier

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

Sidney Crosby

I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.

Sidney Crosby

Dreams are so important. You need to have big goals and expect a lot of yourself but you have to enjoy the ride too.

Shia LaBeouf

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

Sheryl Sandberg

Getting from point A to point Z can be daunting unless you remember that you don’t have to get from A to Z. You just have to get from A to B. Breaking big dreams into small steps is the way to move forward.

Sheryl Sandberg

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.

Shel Silverstein

If you are a dreamer come in

Shel Silverstein

Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong as the gale, Carpenter, bring out your hammers and nails. Hammers and nails, hammers and nails, Build me a boat to go chasing the whales. Chasing the whales, sailing the blue Find me a captain and sign me a crew. Captain and crew, captain and crew, Take me, oh take me to anywhere new.

Shel Silverstein

A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying things, Like crumbs of thoughts and bits of smiles And specks of dried-up tears, And dust of dreams that catch and cling For years and years and years...

Sharon Gless

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

Sharon Kay Penman

During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

Sharon Osbourne

Seems like I'm in a dream. Prince dead at 57. There are no words to describe this loss.

Sharon Olds

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

Shannen Doherty

I had a wonderful childhood. My parents were a dream to me.

Neil Peart

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.