Rahul Dravid Quotes

I'm generally an optimist, but of course, when you've been with the UFC for a decade and still not had a title shot, there is a little part of you that wonders if it will ever happen.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

It is always disappointing when you miss a match.

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

Most times, I had to wait long for the roles that I really wanted to play.

She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.

A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

Hope is a dream deferred.

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

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?

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.

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

Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.