Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

We've scouted them a few times. They have a lot of good athletes. They're in a tough league (City League-North Division). We drew a tough opponent.

Burt Rutan

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

Celina Jade

It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

Celine Dion

I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

Celine Dion

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

Celine Dion

My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.

Celine Dion

If you follow your dreams, it means you follow your heart. If you do follow your heart, I don't think you can go wrong.

Cesar Millan

When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.

Cesar Chavez

To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

Catherine Malandrino

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one,

Catherine Malandrino

Dreaming is the most powerful thing because no one can take it from you.

Catherine Opie

Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

Catherine Ponder

If you have unfilled dreams and visions of greater prosperity and success tucked in a corner of your mind, don't keep them there any longer. Dare to bring them out and dust them off.

Catherine Ponder

Through persistence, you can be one of those happy, victorious people who not only chases dreams, but who catches them! The persistent man also perseveres long enough for his dreams to catch up with him!

Catherine Ponder

Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.

Carson Palmer

Every kid thinks about the Heisman Trophy and dreams about it, but you never think it could happen to you.

Carson McCullers

The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

Carson McCullers

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Carol Burnett

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

Carla Bruni

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

Alan Lightman

I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words. That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don't think it could happen with a long book.

Alan Lightman

In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.

Alan Dershowitz

It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.

Alain de Botton

The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.

Alain de Botton

The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.

Alain de Botton

Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

Al Gore

It's always been my dream to come to Madison Square Garden and be the warm-up act for Elvis.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

My biggest concern is always the students who are working toward a certain career - when they limit themselves to just that one option. They need to know that the world is huge - it's an ocean, and there are so many options. It's not the end of the world if they don't get to pursue an apparent childhood dream.

Aimee Mann

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

Charles R. Swindoll

Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

Charles R. Swindoll

No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.

Charles R. Swindoll

Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life.