Joseph Conrad Quotes

The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.

But what is to be done? Is it possible to infect ourselves on purpose just in order to have the satisfaction of dying beautifully and tranquilly? No! What is to be done? We must live while we are alive, eat dry bread if there is no roast beef, know many women if it is not possible to love a woman, and, in general, we must not dream about orange trees and palms, when under foot are snowdrifts and the cold tundra.

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

A big city is a big ocean; the one who doesn’t know how to swim finds himself at its bottom!

When you bottom out, you have to stand up and get going again.

I was thrust into the spotlight and didn't really know what I was doing. The opportunity was amazing but I wasn't ready for any of it.

If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.

You are living in a dream of your own creation. Let it be the dream of a lifetime, for that is exactly what it is.

I can honestly say from my experience, my family and I had to start from scratch. We left Venezuela back in 1998 and sold the few things we had to come to America in search of the American dream. We went through really tough times. There were moments where we were wondering are we going to make it.

I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

Nobody drowns by falling in the water...but by staying there.

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.

What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.

The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.