Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Okri

a dream can be the highest point of a life

Ben Okri

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

Ben Okri

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it

Ben Okri

Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

Ben Okri

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

Ben Okri

One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.

Ben Okri

We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

Ben Okri

Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.

Barbara Kingsolver

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo, and I look at these things oddly, in my dream. I stand and think, "What is all this for? What is the hunger that drives this need?" I think it's fear. Codi, I hope you won't be hurt by this, but I don't think I'll ever be going back. I don't think I can.

Barbara Kingsolver

it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.

Barbara Kingsolver

But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock my the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

Barbara Kingsolver

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

Barbara Kingsolver

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Bahman Ghobadi

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

Bailee Madison

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

Bai Ling

And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

Bai Ling

Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

Ashton Irwin

If you know someone with a talent and a dream, support them just the way you would want to be supported

We're grateful because it was time, in our opinion, that someone drew a hard line the way she has.

This puts me in great shape for the second round. I love to play well when Tiger is playing ? I haven't had many chances. To play with him Sunday would be a dream scenario.

Scott Tucker

This project is awesome, ... It's what I've been dreaming about - having a show worthy of public consumption, which is educational and promotes some interest in the world around us.

This program will help our dealers help aspiring, cost-conscious Hummer enthusiasts fulfill their dreams of having a Hummer of their very own. At the same time, the program allows those same dealers to generate even more revenue for their businesses.

Barbara Park

When you’re in between dreams, you get to lean back and relax and stop trying so hard. Trying to be somebody, I mean. It’s not as exciting as being a television star, but it’s not that bad, either. You just have to learn to be satisfied with the way you are for a while. Not Forever. Just until you’re finished resting.

Barbara Mikulski

College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families

Barbara Mikulski

We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

Barbara Sher

And our dreams are who we are.

Barbara Sher

But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is the dream killer.

Barbara Sher

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

Barbara Sher

Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.