Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Sparks

Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.

Nicholas Sparks

You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.

Nicholas Sparks

Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust & commitement, hopes & dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring. The greater the love; the greater the tragedy when it is over

Nicholas Sparks

The key to happiness was achievable dreams.

Nawal El Saadawi

Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.

Muhammad Ali

Last night I had a dream. When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, for claiming to be King of the Jungle.

Muhammad Ali

The one without dreams is the one without wings.

Muhammad Ali

The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!

Muhammad Ali

Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.

Mitch Hedberg

I hate dreaming because when you want to sleep, you want to sleep. Dreaming is work. Next thing you know, I have to build a go-cart with my ex-landlord.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Putin doesn't need Donbass (east Ukraine). He wants to determine the fate of the world at talks with a U.S. President, putin is dreaming of getting a deal with the United States about a new-old order for the world, when the world is split on zone of influence. When you cannot interfere in someone else's zone. Not even to mention internal politics.

Mikhail Lermontov

It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions and feelings of men for what they are. But he still has the hope of replacing his old illusions with others, just as fleeting, but also just as sweet.

Mikhail Lermontov

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

Oscar Wilde

Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

Oscar Wilde

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

Oscar Wilde

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Oscar Wilde

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

Oscar Wilde

Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

Madonna Ciccone

I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star. I didn’t know anybody. I wanted to dance. I wanted to sing. I wanted to do all those things. I wanted to make people happy. I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and my dream came true.

Madonna Ciccone

We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values -- looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous, .. It's the most superficial part of the American dream and who would know better than me? The only thing that's going to bring you happiness is love and how you treat your fellow man and having compassion for one another.

Madonna Ciccone

I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, 'I want to be a director'. But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn't want to do it the Hollywood way, and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.

Madonna Ciccone

We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved.

Madonna Ciccone

I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and my dream came true.

M. Ward

I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

Mac Miller

It's hard to dream when you're deep inside of one.

Mac Miller

They're gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.

Mac Miller

They say you waste time asleep, but I'm just trying to dream.

Lykke Li

Life is greater when I'm dealing with something than when I'm just dreaming away.

Lykke Li

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

Lyall Watson

Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.

L'Wren Scott

It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.

Luke Kirby

There are a lot of actors who are doing dream work where they focus on a role and try to bring it into their dreams. I haven't done that work, but I've always found that when I'm studying for a role, the work I'm doing somehow manages to enter my dreams, no matter what approach I take.