Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Bradbury

It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated

Ray Bradbury

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Ray Bradbury

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Randy Pausch

If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

Randy Pausch

If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.

Randy Pausch

It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.

Randy Pausch

there should be some lessons learned and how you can use the stuff you hear today to achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older, you may find that “enabling the dreams of others” thing is even more fun.

Randy Pausch

Sometimes all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.

Randy Pausch

And even though I did not reach the NFL, I sometimes think I got more from persuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, then I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.

Randy Pausch

I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to fight poverty and hunger on Earth. But, look, I'm a scientist who sees inspiration as the ultimate tool for doing good. When you use money to fight poverty, it can be of great value, but too often, you're working at the margins. When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved. Give yourself permission to dream.

Randy Pausch

Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

Randy Pausch

Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.

Randy Pausch

Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.

Randy Pausch

Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

Ramin Bahrani

Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal.

Rand Beers

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

Rand Paul

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

Ralph Lauren

As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

Ralph Lauren

My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

Ralph Lauren

I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

Ralph Lauren

I have always been inspired by the dream of America-families in the country, weathered trucks and farmhouses; sailing off the coast of Maine; following dirt roads in an old wood-paneled station wagon; a convertible filled with young college kids sporting crew cuts and sweatshirts and frayed sneakers.

Ralph Lauren

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Ralph Lauren

My dreams are my work. I design out of the things that I love.

Eric Hoffer

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

Eric Hoffer

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

Eric Bentley

Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

Enric Sala

I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

I think the dream role is getting the opportunity to really sink my teeth into something and transform in the role.

Emmitt Smith

I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for.

Emmitt Smith

Vision gets the dreams started.

Emmitt Smith

Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

Emmy Rossum

That's my dream to be old enough and mature enough that I won't be considered an "old lady" if I have a house with a barn. Because I already do needlepoint.

James Franco

Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.