Claudius Quotes

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

I dream in fire but work in clay.

Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.

Odd as this might sound, I suppose I’m glad you’re here, Jacob. [Edward Cullen]

I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always had this feeling of wanting to be a comedian and wanting to be an actor.

We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can't see what we can see.

Vision without passion is a picture without possibilities.

How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought, in spite of all her pride in spite of herself? She believed that she could have borne the sense of Almighty displeasure, because He knew all, and could read her penitence, and hear her cries for help in time to come. But Mr.Thornton-why did she tremble, and hide her face in the pillow? What strong feeling had overtaking her at last?

My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

This is my inception, I'm writing my dreams.

Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.

No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

When you're a teenager, you don't want to bring your emotions to the surface and talk about them. You want to push them away.

Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.