Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert K. Greenleaf

A statement of vision is the overarching purpose, the big dream, the visionary concept-something presently out of reach-so stated that it excites the imagination and chlalenges people to work for something they do not yet know how to do.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.

Robert James Waller

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.

Robert James Waller

Life is never easy for those who dream.

Robert Hunter

When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my harp to sever, And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears... I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And dream me a dream of my own, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own.

Robert Hunter

Without love in a dream it will never come true

Roddy Doyle

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

Robyn

You cant censor peoples dreams.

Robyn Hitchcock

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

Roberto Cavalli

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

Roberto Cavalli

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

Roberto Bolano

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

Roberto Bolano

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

Roberto Bolano

For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.

Robert Stone

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

Robert Southey

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

Wallace Stevens

Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.

Vincent Canby

There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new for him, emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow.

Willa Cather

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Willa Cather

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

Will Smith

Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist's haven. So there are paint supplies; there's a piano with a microphone and a recorder right there to capture things right in the second. There's editing equipment. There are cameras. I think the only thing in our house that people would be surprised by is the efficiency.

Will Smith

I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be.

Will Smith

Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas, are physical in the universe.

Warren Ellis

Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.

Warren Christopher

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

Vladimir Bukovsky

This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood...

Vincent Van Gogh

The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.

Vincent Van Gogh

The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.

Vincent Van Gogh

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

Vincent Van Gogh

For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

The sight of stars makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.