Famous Quotes & Sayings

Minnie Driver

Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.

Mira Nair

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

Minor White

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

Paula Radcliffe

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

Paula Poundstone

I used to work at The International House of Pancakes. It was a dream, and I made it happen.

Paul Walker

I have always loved marine biology and that is what I studied in school. I am hoping to build a marine sanctuary that will also be educational, an eco preserve and a school, perhaps in Costa Rica, that is one of my dreams and goals.

Peter Tatchell

Marriage is the internationally recognised system of relationship recognition. It is the global language of love. When we were young, most of us dreamed of one day getting married. We didn't dream about having a civil partnership.

Peter Tatchell

Don't accept the world as it is. Dream of what the world could be - and then help make it happen.

Peter Straub

Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

Peter Ustinov

Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

Peter Ustinov

I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.

Peter Kropotkin

It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.

Peter Kropotkin

When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!

Peter F. Hamilton

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

Peter Frampton

You can't erase a dream, you can only wake me up.

Peter Facinelli

Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the center of attention. But I had a dream of being an actor. I went to NYU and studied theatre. I learned a craft. And began my career straight out of college.

Peter Gabriel

From the pain comes the dream. From the dream comes the vision. From the vision come the people. From the people comes the power. From this power come the change.

Peter Gabriel

One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream....

Peter Gabriel

All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head.

Peter Gabriel

The dream is a world in which anyone who has anything bad happen to them has a chance of getting their story uploaded, being seen, being watched.

Peter Gabriel

Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

Pema Chodron

When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

Payne Stewart

I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out.

Phil Gramm

I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.

Peter Sagal

Being a model seems like a dream job - lots of new clothes, cocaine, dates with Leonardo DiCaprio. But that's just for lady models.

Peter S. Beagle

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Peter S. Beagle

Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.

Peter S. Beagle

But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished." -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn

Peter S. Beagle

But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—

Peter S. Beagle

Sing to me," she said. "That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be useful as well. Sing to me, sing loudly-drown out my dreams, keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it. Sing to me, my lord prince, if it please you. It may not seem a hero's task, but I would be glad of it.

Peter S. Beagle

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Peter S. Beagle

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.