Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Capaldi

Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay, but the whole thing was awkward.

Dana Gleason

Our packs are for people who truly use the gear and don't just read the magazines and dream about it. And it will last 15 to 17 years. The material has a lifetime guarantee.

Harry Aleo

People love the horse, and that's what it is all about. This is something that money can't buy. I've owned horses for 27 years, and you dream of something like this. But I never dreamed that I'd have the wonder horse.

William Shakespeare

Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown, But sound the trumpets, and about our task

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

Ed Howell

Stanford has always been my dream. Being able to play volleyball at the next level is a dream come true.

George Bernard Shaw

Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''

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.

Angela Carter

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

Georges Clemenceau

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Francis Picabia

Only useless things are indispensable.

George Eliot

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

Mo Rocca

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Frances Farmer

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Henry Ford

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Henry Ford

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Romola Garai

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

Michael Hagan

Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.

Abbie Hoffman

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

Andrei Codrescu

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

James Wolcott

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Demetri Martin

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

Charlie Chaplin

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

Georges Bernanos

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Jasper Fforde

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Simone Signoret

Nostalgia is not what it used to be (La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle etait)