Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annie Lennox

I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.

Annie Lennox

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

Annie Dillard

It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of the senses, in love with beauty and power, oblivious to herself -- and then suddenly, bingo, she wakes up and feels herself alive. She notices her own awareness. And she notices that she is set down here, mysteriously, in a going world.

AnnaSophia Robb

When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.

AnnaLynne McCord

I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.

Clay Aiken

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

Daniel J. Boorstin

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.

D. H. Lawrence

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

D. H. Lawrence

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

D. H. Lawrence

At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.

D. H. Lawrence

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

D. H. Lawrence

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Cristina Saralegui

To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.

Cristina Saralegui

President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

We are now working toward a more economically feasible design, not round, but stretched in length. It's an evolving process for our dreams to go Mars and have a nice habitat there, and not just repeat what cavemen have done.

Jack Johnson

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect...

Jack Johnson

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Jack Johnson

Don't let your dreams be dreams.

Maxim Staviski

We didn't dream about it, we worked for this.

We made Hobart shoot the type of shot that we expect Drew to handle.

Drew Brees

We made big plays when we needed to make big plays, maybe not the way we drew it up but as long as you make them, that's all that matters.

William Shakespeare

Dream in light years, challenge miles, walk step by step

William Shakespeare

Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.

William Shakespeare

The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of.

William Shakespeare

Dreams are the children of idled minds.

William Shakespeare

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

We have a tendency to want them to be the American version of royalty, but at the same time, if they start dressing that way, we get really offended and very critical.

Abbie Cornish

I've got heaps of dreams.

Abbas Kiarostami

I had intended to make another film, called Pocket Money, which was to be about children at a school.I was very much intrigued by the story [of Close Up] - it came into my dreams and I was very much influenced by it. So I called my producer and asked that we put aside Pocket Money and start something else, and he agreed.

A. B. Yehoshua

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

A. A. Milne

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

A. A. Milne

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

Aeschylus

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.