Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Frame

Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget or help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighborhood of light we see our own face.

Janet Jackson

I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

Janet Jackson

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

Janet Jackson

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.

Janet Jackson

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

Jane Wagner

You don't know what it's like! Hyperactive twins! When they turned three, my doctor prescribed Ritalin -- I wouldn't dream of giving a drug to my children, but it does help when I take it myself.

Jane Yolen

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.

Jane Krakowski

Cheyenne Jackson is just a dream.

Miley Cyrus

Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.

Miley Cyrus

There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are - and who we might be if we follow our dreams

Ralph Lauren

There is a short length that I'm doing ... and I'm doing some cropped pants and some long dresses and long skirts at the same time,

Jack Smith

There is a rule that states that if a player is ejected they either have to remain in the dressing room or leave the arena. This is an unfortunate incident.

William Shakespeare

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Then are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Joe Girardi

The only way we're going to find out if these guys can play is to test them. These guys are all following a dream and want a chance.

Terry Crews

I just want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be on a show like 'The Newsroom.' I've always dreamed of being on something this important and being on a show that really resonates with a lot of very, very intelligent people in the world, and I've gained such a loyal fan base.

We really have some people, especially women, who go all out. They rent limos for before and dress up in the formalwear and the furs.

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

We didn't understand the whole thing. We just knew that going to the State Tournament has been our dream for five years. We didn't want it taken from us.

Charles Bukowski

when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

Charles Bukowski

Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it’s enough…

Charles Bukowski

we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.

Charles Bukowski

2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.

Ayn Rand

Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.

Ayn Rand

The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.

Ayn Rand

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Ayn Rand

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

Ayn Rand

Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.

Aubrey McClendon

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

Bertrand Russell

America ... where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters.

Bertrand Russell

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.

Bertrand Russell

It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.

Benjamin Banneker

Never abandon your vision. Keep reaching to further your dreams.

Ben Elton

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.