I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design when I couldn't afford to have a team and I didn't want to look like I was indie. I wanted to give fans the visual.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

You have to keep going and pursue your dreams.

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

If you're following your dreams, you're doing something you love and that you believe in yourself for.

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

We all have so much more power to make our dreams a reality - and love life along the way - than we think we do!

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

Believe in and follow your dreams.

A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'

I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.

'Fast Life' is just about going out with your friends and having a good time - I think it's one of those songs that people can relate with and like.

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can't believe that I'm an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.

I see travelling as a great learning process, and my biggest dream is to travel the world.

I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

How sweet it is!

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.