"London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it."

Aspiration, Hope, Optimism, Observation, Truth

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"London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it."

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"I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Aspiration, Dream, Land, Poverty, Books

"A dream is always risky, for there is a price to pay."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Aspiration, Dream, Risk, Hope, Fear

"Life is beautiful dream."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Aspiration, Dream, Beautiful, Life, Hope

"The moment you choose your vision, great confliction comes along. You have confliction even if you don't choose the vision. Our soul grows not by living life within a small confliction, but rather living with big conflictions inside a big vision. A soul with a vision can succeed."

Ilchi Lee, South Korean Author

Aspiration, Vision, Conflict, Growth, Soul

"Life is a dream so dream big!"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Aspiration, Life, Dream, Big

"Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet."

J.R. Rim, American Author

Aspiration, Dream, Faith, Action, Flight

"To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path."

Tahir Shah, British Author

Aspiration, Success, Imagination, Vision

"My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Aspiration, Imagination, Wealth, Desire, Creativity

"As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Aspiration, Imagination, Curiosity, Adventure

"My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university."

Paul Nurse, British Scientist

Aspiration, Aspirations, Parents, School, University

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"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires."

Family

"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."

Psychology

"Ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.Three be the things I shall have till I die:Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."

Philosophy

"But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous."

Philosophy

"Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching."

Psychology

"If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised."

Humor

"And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word."

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"A dream is always risky, for there is a price to pay."

"Life is beautiful dream."

"The moment you choose your vision, great confliction comes along. You have confliction even if you don't choose the vision. Our soul grows not by living life within a small confliction, but rather living with big conflictions inside a big vision. A soul with a vision can succeed."

"Life is a dream so dream big!"

"Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet."

"To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path."

"My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty."

"My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university."

Explore more quotes by Dorothy Parker

"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires."

"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."

"But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous."

"Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching."

"If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised."

"They sicken of calm who know the storm."

"Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life."

"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."

"And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word."