Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christine Sinclair

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

Dorothy Hamill

When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.

When I was younger, I also dreamed of being an opera singer, simply because of Maria Callas.

Rick Astley

When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.

Kurt Vonnegut

The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to include such a dream among its fundamental legal documents. I defend it because it has been so successful for two centuries in preserving our freedom and increasing our vitality, knowing that all arguments in support of it are certain to sound absurd.

Kurt Vonnegut

I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.

Kurt Vonnegut

I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.

Kurt Vonnegut

Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.

Baz Luhrmann

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

William Shakespeare

Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?

William Shakespeare

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

William Shakespeare

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.

William Shakespeare

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

William Shakespeare

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor mortals mad!

William Shakespeare

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

William Shakespeare

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

The reason we won was because we were a team -- Team Connecticut was the dream team,

Louis C. K.

I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school ... Technical high school, that's where dreams are narrowed down. We tell our children, "You can do anything you want." Their whole lives. "You can do anything!" But this place, we take kids - they're 15, they're young - and we tell them, "You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you."

Coleman Young

We need to dream big dreams, propose grandiose means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.

We thought the dream would be over at a quarter to six last night. The dream lives on. It's fantastic.

We thought it was going to happen, we've been dreaming it for 32 years,

Madeleine Albright

The American Dream means being part of a society that allows you to be or do whatever you want, and to have a sense that your individual optimism and hard work will be rewarded. It exists outside of the U.S. as well as inside. People continue to come here because they want to improve their lives, they want to be able to support themselves and they want to live in freedom. A lot of people who criticize this country still send their children here to study.

William Shakespeare

Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

William Shakespeare

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.

Michael Campbell

I remember watching this (event) when I was a youngster and I wanted to be a part of the World Match Play. And finally, I am a finalist. It's always been one of my dreams to fulfil.

James Farrior

Our goal is to try and get our offense a few extra possessions ? we did that today. It's a dream come true, but it's not over yet ?we've still got one more game.

Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It’s so real." "Most dreams are. It isn't until you wake up that you see all the plot holes.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’re not going to drive me home?” I asked. A waste of breath, since I knew her answer. “There’s fog.” “Patchy fog.” Vee grinned. “Oh, boy. He is so on your mind. Not that I blame you. Personally, I’m hoping I dream about him tonight.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Biggest dream?” I was proud of this one because I knew it would stump him. It required forethought. “Kiss you.” “That’s not funny,” I said, holding his eyes, grateful I didn’t stutter. “No, but it made you blush.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your biggest dream? - Nora Grey Kiss you. - Patch Cipriano

Barry Lopez

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.