
“For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.”
Source: Lair of Dreams
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2000s, Promises to Keep (2008)
“For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.”
Source: Lair of Dreams
Upon winning the 1986 Academy Award for Best Actor, (in The Color of Money), after having being nominated seven times; quoted in Tom O'Neil, "Gold Derby," http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2006/09/an_oscar_finall.html, Los Angeles Times (2006-09-03)
“Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
---"On death”
Source: Complete Poems and Selected Letters
On the first public performances of some of the music from her album Actor in an interview for Billboard magazine (20 March 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w53ut9dzhI
“"When I sleep too much I don't score. That's the reason I like to go out a lot."”
Quando durmo muito, não faço gols, por isso gosto de ficar na noite.
Source: Veja Magazine; 1895 Edition. March 9th, 2005.
Context: Romário was seen in different night clubs during his carreer while being the top scorer in almost every major competition he played in.
“I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.”
Upon hearing that President Bush was "sleeping like a baby" on the eve of war with Iraq, as quoted in "The Tragedy of Colin Powell" (19 February 2004) http://slate.msn.com/id/2095756/.
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