Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Andretti

Very exciting times for us ... and me personally, obviously, with everything that's going on. I think with the team that we have, it's just been a dream these last three years.

Dmitri Mendeleev

I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.

Djuna Barnes

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Dick Armey

In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit and close family ties. They place a high value on education. And they are eager to achieve the American Dream. ... It's to our benefit to keep our doors open, and to keep enriching our economy and culture. I'd like to see America continue to do so.

Diane Wakoski

I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.

Diane von Furstenberg

Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.

Diane von Furstenberg

I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.

Diane von Furstenberg

The important thing is to believe in what you do. Have a big dream and take small steps.

Diane von Furstenberg

I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.

Diane von Furstenberg

You only regret what you don't do! Go for it, live your dreams and enjoy it all!

Dhirubhai Ambani

Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when you dream it you can do it.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Only when you dream it you can do it.

Dhirubhai Ambani

For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win.

David Almond

Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.

David Almond

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled,

Abraham Lincoln

Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.

Abraham Lincoln

The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said:He is a very common-looking man. The President replied:The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

Abraham Lincoln

Here in my heart, my happiness, my house. Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life. Peace is my companion on the pathway winding to the threshold. Inside this portal dwells new strength in the security, serenity, and radiance of those I love above life itself. Here two will build new dreams--dreams that tomorrow will come true. The world over, these are the thoughts at eventide when footsteps turn ever homeward. In the haven of the hearthside is rest and peace and comfort.

Abraham Lincoln

If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

Abraham Lincoln

The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

Katie Stevens

I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.

Karen Hesse

While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

Alexandra Stoddard

Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself...To putter is to discover.

Alexandre Dumas

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

Alexandre Dumas

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

Alexandre Dumas

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

Alexandre Dumas

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Alexandra Paul

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.

Isabella Rossellini

I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari.

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

Mary Kom

Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.