Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherynne M. Valente

I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want.

Caryl Churchill

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

Carl Hiaasen

I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.

Ian Mcewan

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

We are a dream of inclusion, of education.

Douglas Coupland

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

Bobby Valentine

We started in spring training with a dream to be here for the last game. We wanted to win the last game and we did.

Ella Wilcox

Why sit ye idly dreaming all the day,While the golden, precious hours flit away?See you not the day is waning, waning fast?That the morn's already vanished in the past?

Katie Couric

When you thought about getting married, was there a particular dress you had in mind?

William Shakespeare

Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!

William Shakespeare

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.

William Shakespeare

If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

William Shakespeare

A dream itself is but a shadow.

William Shakespeare

Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends?

William Shakespeare

But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.

William Shakespeare

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

William Shakespeare

Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

William Shakespeare

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

I've always dreamed of franchising an airline, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do it.

William Shakespeare

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

Kurt Vonnegut

The biggest truth to face now - what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life - is that I don't think people give a damn whether the planet goes or not. It seems to me as if everyone is living as members of Alcoholics Anonymous do, day by day. And a few more days will be enough. I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

Kurt Vonnegut

I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

Mark Cuban

You could be beaten down by anybody and by everybody and it doesn't matter what everybody else thinks it's how you see yourself and what your own dreams are. And, you know, anybody who started a business and build a business knows there's going to be lots of times when you feel beaten down and you need some motivation and that's when I turn to that book among others.

Mark Cuban

We romanticize entrepreneurshi p so much that people don't do the work. It's not just a dream, not just a goal; it's a lot of hard work. A lot of people are wantrepreneurs, not entrepreneurs.

Mark Cuban

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. It's not about what you can dream of. That's easy. It's about whether or not it's important enough to you to do the work to be ready to be successful in that business.

Mark Cuban

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort.

Mark Cuban

It's not the dreaming, it's the doing.

Mark Cuban

The reason I do Shark Tank isn't to try take make more money of the deals, even though every deal I want to make money off of and even more so I want the entrepreneurs to be very successful and make money, but Shark Tank sends a message to everybody that the American Dream is alive and well.

Mark Cuban

Nothing can kill the future dreams and goals of a new graduate than 50k of debt like an anvil over your head. I got to Indiana University not because I visited the campus and loved everything about it. I picked Indiana University because I saw a list of the top 10 business schools and it was the cheapest.

Mark Cuban

It is called working your ass off. The difference is what you are willing to sacrifice. For every writer who wants balance in their life, there is a guy like me who gives up a lot to make their dreams come true. There is always going to be someone out there that knows they have to compensate for maybe having less talent with harder work and preparation.

Charley Pride

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.