Ice Cube Quotes

The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.

That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.

gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.

I'm happier than I would have been with the Beatles.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]