Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikos Kazantzakis

When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?

Nikos Kazantzakis

Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies, wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream.

Nikos Kazantzakis

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?

Nikos Kazantzakis

Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggles.

Nikos Kazantzakis

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

Nicole Kidman

I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.

Neil Gaiman

A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.

Neil Gaiman

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Nastia Liukin

At the 2012 Olympic Trials, I wanted to make a second Olympic team. I fell face first, and in a blink of an eye, my dreams of competing in a second Olympics were over. Even so, I got up, finished my routine, and saw twenty thousand people cheering. It was my first standing ovation.

Nastia Liukin

I've had to learn through experiences not to be afraid to fail. You don't know what the future holds for you. You can hope your dreams come true, but you have to be fearless. I don't want to look back and think, What if?

Nastia Liukin

Set daily, monthly and long term goals and dreams. Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it.

Nastassja Kinski

Actors, after all, dream.

Nastassja Kinski

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

Nas

At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.

N. Scott Momaday

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

Myrtle Reed

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

Myrtle Reed

Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.

Myrtle Reed

Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.

N. T. Wright

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

Monica Raymund

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

Miranda Hart

No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.

Miranda Hart

I think it's sad when people stop dreaming, or start losing hope. Because holding onto the bonkers dream might just turn out to be the most marvellous thing you ever did.

Miranda Hart

Live in hope. Because things do happen. Things do change. Worry really is futile. Don't fear the future. Dreams do come true.

Miranda Kerr

Focus your intention on your dreams, you can wave magic when you set your heart and mind to it

Miranda July

I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.

Miranda July

Live the dream, Potato.

Miranda July

This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.

Miranda July

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

Miley Cyrus

The dreams that you hold for your future are what you dream about at night. They’re always at the back of your mind. They’re what your heart desires. They keep you going. Accept reality and have a backup plan, but always follow your dreams no matter what.

Miley Cyrus

I like Kurt Cobain. [He] is like my dream boyfriend.

Miley Cyrus

Little moments attach themselves to other little moments and collect into big dreams. We become what we experience.