Nora Ephron Quotes

Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.

A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

I think anything is possible to anyone who dreams, dares, works and never gives up.

Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Always dream. Never give up!

The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...

Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.

I am a dreamer but when I wake, you can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

Dreams die hard. And sometimes they don't have to die at all.

"Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"

Just because I'm 77 doesn't mean I don't have a dream.

So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.