Mary Roach Quotes

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.

It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.

I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.

We're all dreamers.

'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point? I'm not really gonna do that, am I?

But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

When you wish upon a star, you just might become one.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Everybody's a dreamer.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.