Posts Tagged ‘Dreams’

January 22nd, 2012 Author Types, Authors, E, Poet No Comments »

Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Elizabeth Bishop

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.
Elizabeth Bishop

What childishness is it that while there’s breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
Elizabeth Bishop

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper – just running down the edges of different countries and continents, ‘looking for something’.
Elizabeth Bishop

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
Elizabeth Bishop

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
Elizabeth Bishop

 

January 18th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, J, Musician No Comments »

James Blunt

It’s taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that’s when everything started happening quickly but I think that’s always the way it is.
James Blunt

Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he’d had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.
James Blunt

Absolutely, it’s a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I’m in for a rollercoaster ride.
James Blunt

I guess if you’re stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
James Blunt

My life is brillant, My love is pure.
James Blunt

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.
James Blunt

You can’t break my spirit, it’s my dreams you take.
James Blunt

 

January 18th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, F, Scientist No Comments »

Felix Bloch

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.
Felix Bloch

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
Felix Bloch

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
Felix Bloch

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
Felix Bloch

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
Felix Bloch

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
Felix Bloch

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
Felix Bloch

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!
Felix Bloch

December 21st, 2011 Actress, Author Types, Authors, C No Comments »

Candice Bergen

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don’t have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
Candice Bergen

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
Candice Bergen

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it’s rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you’re just renting for a while.
Candice Bergen

But it was hard to leave because the show’s been so important in our lives.
Candice Bergen

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
Candice Bergen

Glamorized… am I glamorous?
Candice Bergen

Hollywood is like Picasso’s bathroom.
Candice Bergen

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
Candice Bergen

Were women meant to do everything – work and have babies?
Candice Bergen

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in – with a vengeance.
Candice Bergen

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don’t waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Candice Bergen

Not that we didn’t have close relationships with our parents – I’m very close to my mom – but parents didn’t think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
Candice Bergen

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
Candice Bergen

It’s not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
Candice Bergen

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
Candice Bergen

When are you going to realize that if it doesn’t apply to me it doesn’t matter?
Candice Bergen

December 6th, 2011 Actress, Author Types, Authors, S No Comments »

Sandra Bernhard

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.
Sandra Bernhard

Gayness is a non-issue.
Sandra Bernhard

I can’t tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.
Sandra Bernhard

Anything that has cynicism to it and that’s jaded is smutty.
Sandra Bernhard

When you’re constantly looking for things from other people, you’re not looking within yourself.
Sandra Bernhard

I don’t believe in karma.
Sandra Bernhard

Smut, if it’s really smut, there’s nothing backing it up. It’s the easy way out.
Sandra Bernhard

That disturbs people when they know they didn’t have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.
Sandra Bernhard

When you’re watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?
Sandra Bernhard

There are so few women in general who aren’t completely threatened and confused by other women’s success. It’s very disappointing.
Sandra Bernhard

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren’t coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.
Sandra Bernhard

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.
Sandra Bernhard

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It’s part of who you are and doesn’t need to be discussed anymore.
Sandra Bernhard

November 21st, 2011 A, Actress, Author Types, Authors No Comments »

Amber Benson

Maybe because she’s smaller than me she might look taller.
Amber Benson

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It’s like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.
Amber Benson

 

May 9th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Poet, T No Comments »

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
Thomas Lovell Beddoes

April 1st, 2011 Author Types, Authors, D, Novelist No Comments »

Djuna Barnes

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
Djuna Barnes

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle – the heart.
Djuna Barnes

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
Djuna Barnes

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
Djuna Barnes

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
Djuna Barnes

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.
Djuna Barnes

Well, isn’t Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else – and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
Djuna Barnes

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
Djuna Barnes

Life is painful, nasty and short… in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
Djuna Barnes

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
Djuna Barnes

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other’s bed, where the rival perfects the lover’s imperfections.
Djuna Barnes

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn’t the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life’s lived before it gets to the parlor door.
Djuna Barnes

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
Djuna Barnes

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Djuna Barnes

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
Djuna Barnes

After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat.
Djuna Barnes

March 31st, 2011 Author Types, Authors, C, Writer No Comments »

Clive Barker

Gather experience… Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.
Clive Barker

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else – but I’m absolutely nothing special.
Clive Barker

You can plan to be brave – it’s even better if you just try to be brave.
Clive Barker

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one’s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.
Clive Barker

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
Clive Barker

I’m a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die – it’s a major offence.
Clive Barker

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
Clive Barker

What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.
Clive Barker

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
Clive Barker

March 23rd, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Dramatist, P No Comments »

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Love that is not madness is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

‘Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven’s the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest
good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for
truth’s sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a
stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in
the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night’s arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca