Christina Rossetti Quotes
I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
Quotes to Explore
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.
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As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
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Competing in London would be a dream come true.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
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I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.
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I'm like this wiry freak they pulled out of a bar two months ago and said, 'Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.'
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The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it's funny.
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I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
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An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.
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I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
