Quotes and Sayings about Dream
"I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Dreams, Basketball, Kids)
"Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps."
- Peter Abrahams
(Related: Dream, Magic)
"With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books."
- Peter Abrahams
(Related: Dreams, Poetry, Books, Consciousness, Self, Shakespeare, World)
"I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Dreams, People, Writing)
"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Wife)
"All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle."
- Edie Adams
(Related: World)
"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Nature, Dream, Chaos, Law, Man, Order)
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Leader, Dream, Actions)
"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Dream, Hope, Act, Shadow)
"I know how men in exile feed on dreams."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Dreams, Men)
"My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Dreams, Divorce, School)
"It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Work, Dream, Friends, Hard work, Will)
"My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Power, Dreams, Mother, Courage)
"If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do."
- Carlos Alazraqui
(Related: Work, People, Disney, Name)
"Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Dreams, Senses)
"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Life, Power, Dream, Wishes)
"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor."
- Sholom Aleichem
(Related: Life, Dream, Comedy, Fool, Poor, Tragedy)
"That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Dream, Chance, Pleasure)
"The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more."
- Sherman Alexie
(Related: Dream)
"If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Dream)
"Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Dreams, American, Americans, Festivities, Generations, Hardship, Pursuit, Racism)
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."
- James Allen
(Related: Dreams, Vision, Day, Promise, Prophecy)
"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities."
- James Allen
(Related: Dreams, Time, Soul, Achievement, Vision, First, Oak, Waking)
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."
- James Lane Allen
(Related: Dreams, Vision, Day, Promise, Prophecy)
"Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand."
- Robert G. Allen
(Related: Dream, Wealth, Attention, Man, Opinions, Succeed)
"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?"
- Woody Allen
(Related: Dream, Nothing)
"I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic."
- Isabel Allende
(Related: Power, Dreams, Nature, Emotions, Magic, Mystery)
"But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Home, Dream, Being)
"Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?"
- John Amery
(Related: Dreams, War, Leader, Alliance, Being, Destruction, Fathers, Nothing, Seamen)
"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Music, Dream, Harmony, Heaven, Perfection)
"We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life."
- David Amram
(Related: Beauty, Dreams, Life, Love, Family, Country, Jazz, Language, Leading, Living)
"I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous."
- Elena Anaya
(Related: Dreams, Love, Mom, Day, Living, Old, Saying, Years)
"I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: History, Science, Geography, Regret)
"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live."
- Greg Anderson
(Related: Dreams, Love, Goals, Completion, Deep, Meaning, Needs)
"My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Dream)
"When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Dreams, Ideals)
"As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control."
- Michael P. Anderson
(Related: Dreams, Life, Control, Right)
"They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Fantasy, First, World)
"Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?"
- Dwayne Andreas
(Related: Government, Dream)
"I had to do something special coming in. I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true."
- Stuart Appleby
(Related: Dream, Winning)
"I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding."
- Nicole Appleton
(Related: Wedding, Beach, Pretty, Want)
"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself."
- Louis Aragon
(Related: Dreams, Now, Reason, State, Waking)
"When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject."
- Sergio Aragones
(Related: Time)
"Hope is a waking dream."
- Aristotle
(Related: Dream, Hope, Waking)
"Hope is the dream of a waking man."
- Aristotle
(Related: Dream, Hope, Man, Waking)
"Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Dreams, Idea, Fashion)
"Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number."
- Peter Arno
(Related: Dreams)
"Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair."
- Matthew Arnold
(Related: Dream, Despair)
"There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: Work, Idea, Dream, Career, Pressure, Tension, Wonder)
"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: Being, Night, Sound)
"Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end."
- Leon Askin
(Related: Dream, December, End, Theater, Washington)
"My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Dream, Acting, Actor)
"My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do."
- John Astin
(Related: Work, Dreams, People, Ideas, Actor, Encouragement)
"Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Art, Dream, Society, Popular)
"Learn from your dreams what you lack."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Dreams)
"It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake."
- Bille August
(Related: Life, Society, People, Dream)
"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it."
- Sai Baba
(Related: Life, Love, Sacrifice, Dream, Challenge, Play, Song)
"It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true."
- Roger Babson
(Related: Dream)
"David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does."
- Jillian Bach
(Related: Dream)
"The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams."
- Gaston Bachelard
(Related: Dreams, Poetry)
"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."
- Gaston Bachelard
(Related: Peace, Dream, Day, Name)
"I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy."
- Kevin Bacon
(Related: Car, Dreams, Action, Fun)
"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me."
- David Bailey
(Related: Dreams, Attitude, Positive)
"My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon."
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
(Related: Life, Time, Dreams, Earth, Fulfillment, Meaning, Privilege)
"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
(Related: Happiness, Dream, Excellence, Labor, Usefulness)
"My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel."
- Jim Bakker
(Related: Dream)
"Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer."
- Jim Bakker
"When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone. I would dream about a phone."
- Florence Ballard
(Related: Thought, Dream, Projects)
"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam."
- J. G. Ballard
(Related: Car, Dreams, American, Assassination, Vietnam, World)
"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality."
- Toni Cade Bambara
(Related: Dream, Failure, Friends)
"When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did."
- Toni Cade Bambara
(Related: Thought, Dream)
"There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Dreams, People, Goals)
"That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Order)
"I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Life, Dream, Cartoons)
"But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
(Related: Time, Truth, Dream, Friends, Gain)
"For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
(Related: Dreams, Life)
"For even in dreams a good deed is not lost."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
(Related: Dreams, Deed)
"What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
(Related: Dreams, Life, Illusion, Madness, Shadow)
"It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical."
- Clive Barker
(Related: Health, Dreams, Gods, Desire, Want, World)
"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."
- Joel A. Barker
(Related: Change, Time, Dream, Action, Vision, World)
"My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band."
- Travis Barker
(Related: Mom, Dream, Day, Play, School)
"Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact."
- Djuna Barnes
(Related: Dreams, Fact)
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
- James M. Barrie
(Related: Dreams, Life, Sacrifice, Will)
"I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone."
- Todd Barry
(Related: Dreams)
"I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to."
- Drew Barrymore
(Related: Love, Night)
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Dreams, Man, Old)
"It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic."
- Cecilia Bartoli
(Related: Music, Dream, Joy, Play)
"Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension."
- Cecilia Bartoli
(Related: Music, Dream)
"We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism."
- Billy Barty
(Related: History, Dreams, People, Faults)
"Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them."
- Georges Bataille
(Related: Dreams, Despair, Results, Violence, Weakness)
"Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality."
- John Battelle
(Related: Dreams, Reality, Want)
"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Love, Dream, Baby, End, May)
"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Dreams, Common sense, Earth, Reality)
"There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you."
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: Man, Nothing, Talking, Woman)
"Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment."
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: Dreams, Fulfillment, Statistics)
"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?"
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
(Related: Dreams)
"Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there."
- Kabir Bedi
(Related: Home, Dream)
"People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table."
- Max Beerbohm
(Related: Dreams, People)
"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans."
- Max Beerbohm
(Related: Dreams, American, Americans, Listening, Talking)
"Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable."
- Rand Beers
(Related: Extreme, Iraq)
"Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it."
- William Bell
(Related: Music, First, Growing up, Listening, Song)
"The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Dream, Actions, Being, Children, Laws, Needs)
"In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family."
- Monica Bellucci
(Related: Dreams, Family, Life, People)
"Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Dream, Actors, Famous, Solution, Want)
"Dreaming men are haunted men."
- Stephen Vincent Benet
(Related: Men)
"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
- Walter Benjamin
(Related: Experience, Dream, Boredom)
"Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Purpose, Visualization)
"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Dream, Achievement, Action, Goal)
"A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Dream, Goals, Future)
"I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up."
- Chester Bennington
(Related: Dream, Childhood)
"Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen."
- Amber Benson
(Related: Dreams, Acting, World)
"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: Life, Dream, Childhood)
"Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Dreams, Life)
"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open."
- John Berger
(Related: Dreams, Imagination, Difficulty, Living, Open, Philosophy, Practice)
"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."
- John Berger
(Related: Life, Time, Dream, Capitalism, Culture, Publicity)
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
- Ingmar Bergman
(Related: Art, Music, Feelings, Dream, Conscience, Deep, Film)
"Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace."
- John Desmond Bernal
(Related: Peace, Time, Sex, Dream, Existence, Humanity, Hunger, Present, Satisfaction, Sight)
"That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams."
- Sandra Bernhard
(Related: Dreams, People, Integrity)
"I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world."
- Bernardo Bertolucci
(Related: Change, Dream, Hope, Being, Future, Sense, Today, World, Youth)
"Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'"
- Barbara Billingsley
(Related: Dreams, Day)
"I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it."
- Juliette Binoche
(Related: Dream)
"The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing."
- Elizabeth Bishop
(Related: Dreams)
"Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years."
- James W. Black
(Related: Music, Mathematics, School, Study, Years)
"The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening."
- Richard Blackmore
(Related: Home, Flowers, Summer)
"Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them."
- Gary Ryan Blair
(Related: Dreams, Goals, Clarity, Memory, Mind)
"Travelers repose and dream among my leaves."
- William Blake
(Related: Dream)
"No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain."
- Yasmine Bleeth
(Related: People, Dream, Hollywood)
"Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!"
- Felix Bloch
(Related: Dreams, Life, Future, Luck, May, Saying, Want)
"A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Dreams, Friend, Girls, Teenage)
"This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Time, Dream, American)
"Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: War, Dreams, Freedom, Terror)
"It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: War, Dreams, Freedom, Terror)
"And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Dream, Will)
"You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take."
- James Blunt
(Related: Dreams, Spirit)
"For years I've kept a list of dream projects."
- Michael Bolton
(Related: Dream, Projects, Years)
"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Dreams, Courage)
"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Dreams, Time, Lonely)
"The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations."
- Kit Bond
(Related: Death, Family, Dream, Wealth, American, Tax, Generations)
"Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover."
- Giotto di Bondone
(Related: Dreams, Feelings, Heart, Pleasure, Principles)
"When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been my dream all along, and it came true."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Life, Dream)
"Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you."
- Henry Bonilla
(Related: Dream, American, Property)
"What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop."
- Bono
(Related: Age, Now, Song)
"You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong."
- Bono
(Related: Dream, Action, Idealism, World)
"Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky."
- Arna Bontemps
(Related: Dreams, Dance, Fathers, Jungle, Rain, Sky)
"Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream."
- Debby Boone
(Related: Dreams, Change, Nothing)
"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."
- Jorge Luis Borges
(Related: Dream, Nothing, Writing)
"The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals."
- Leonard Boswell
(Related: Education, Home, Success, Dream, Goals, American, Children, College, Job, Ownership)
"Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it."
- Caprice Bourret
(Related: Dream, Entertainment, World)
"I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Education, Dream, American, Democrats, Environment, Fight, Rights, Privacy, Public, Woman)
"Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens."
- Susan Boyle
(Related: Love, Dream, Queen, Royalty, Singing, Variety, Will)
"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
- Ray Bradbury
(Related: Dream, Eyes, Wonder, World)
"If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you."
- Ray Bradbury
(Related: Dreams, People, Myths, Want, Will)
"But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true."
- Milton Bradley
(Related: Dreams, Now)
"We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about."
- Sonia Braga
(Related: Dreams)
"I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element."
- Kenneth Branagh
(Related: Life, Dream, Night, Supernatural)
"I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer!"
- Jonathan Brandis
(Related: Future)
"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
(Related: Needs, World)
"I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory."
- Andre Breton
(Related: Dreams, Events, Importance, Man, Memory, Waking)
"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Dreams, Heart, Thoughts, Silence)
"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."
- Emily Bronte
(Related: Dreams, Life, Ideas, Mind, Water, Wine)
"America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams."
- David Brooks
(Related: Dreams, Politics, America, Aspirations, Culture, Democracy, Personality)
"You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams."
- Herb Brooks
(Related: Dreams)
"We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams."
- Herb Brooks
(Related: Dreams, Kids, Nation, Now)
"I'm a dreamer."
- Herb Brooks
"In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance."
- Louise Brooks
(Related: Dreams, Dance)
"Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Love, Time, Cancer, Man, Physics, Understanding, Will)
"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."
- Chris Brown
(Related: Time, People, Dream, Acting, Fun, Right)
"Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too."
- Chris Brown
(Related: Dreams, Fun)
"Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program."
- David M. Brown
(Related: Day, Space)
"Debbie Gibson and dog food. I've always dreamed of this."
- Julie Brown
(Related: Food)
"I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames."
- Les Brown
(Related: Dream, Running)
"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."
- Les Brown
(Related: Dreams, Help, Will)
"A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die."
- Les Brown
(Related: Dreams, People, Courage)
"You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality."
- Les Brown
(Related: Dream, Reality, Responsibility)
"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams."
- Les Brown
(Related: Design, Dreams, Life, Force)
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
- Les Brown
(Related: Dreams, Living)
"It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams."
- Les Brown
(Related: Dreams, Experience, Courage, Vision, Possibilities)
"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams."
- Les Brown
(Related: Dreams, Hunger, Responsibility, Will)
"A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence."
- Pam Brown
(Related: Dreams, Existence, Giving)
"What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Dream, Taste, Wine)
"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Dreams, God, Gifts, Man, Shame)
"One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Clouds, Fight, Right, Sleep, Wrong)
"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: People, Dream)
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success."
- Paul Bryant
(Related: Dreams, Success, Blood)
"I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream."
- Sergei Bubka
(Related: Sports, Dream)
"Death is the most blessed dream."
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Death, Dream)
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
- Buddha
(Related: Dream, Future, Mind, Past, Present)
"I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid."
- Jimmy Buffett
(Related: Opportunity, Job, Summer)
"Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Dreams)
"We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less."
- Ralph Bunche
(Related: Country, Fight, Fools, Idiots, Race, World)
"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Dream)
"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Food, Dream)
"The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line."
- Leo Burnett
(Related: Dreams, Work, Advertising, Deals, Needs)
"I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith."
- Mark Burnett
(Related: Dreams, Faith, Flies, Metaphor, Name, Wrong)
"I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams."
- Augusten Burroughs
(Related: Dreams, People, Alcohol, Childhood, Drugs, Feeling, Lonely)
"The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits."
- William S. Burroughs
(Related: Dreams, Care, Killing, Magic, Man, Nation, Spirits)
"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."
- William S. Burroughs
(Related: Society, People, Dream)
"It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality."
- Ellen Burstyn
(Related: Son, Dream, Character, Coffee, Hell, Reality, Television)
"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Life, Dream, Events, Man, Memory, Trifles)
"The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream."
- Barbara Bush
(Related: Society, Dream, First, Race, Will)
"A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Dream, Man, Property)
"Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Dreams, Prayer, Saying, World)
"I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement."
- John Byrne
(Related: Dream, Improvement, Reality, Waking)
"I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty."
- George Byron
(Related: Life, Beauty, Duty)
"I was a great dreamer of day dreams."
- Abraham Cahan
(Related: Dreams, Day)
"What is wealth? A dream of fools."
- Abraham Cahan
(Related: Dream, Wealth, Fools)
"I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure."
- Tim Cahill
(Related: Travel, Dream, Adventure, Living)
"My dreams are all follies."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Dreams)
"There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith."
- James Cameron
(Related: Dreams, Faith, Thought, People)
"Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult."
- Julia Cameron
(Related: Faith, Trust, Dream, Courage, Will)
"You can plant a dream."
- Anne Campbell
(Related: Dream)
"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."
- Joseph Campbell
(Related: Dreams, Myths, Public)
"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Art, Music, Dream, First, Reason, Will)
"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams."
- Elias Canetti
(Related: Dreams, Help)
"You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer."
- Nick Cannon
(Related: Dreams, People, Goals)
"In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work."
- Steve Carell
(Related: Dreams, Work, Thought)
"This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!"
- Mariah Carey
(Related: Dream)
"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that."
- George Carlin
(Related: Time, Work, People, Dream)
"We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Dream, Possibilities)
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Nature, Garden, Human nature, Living, Roses, Today, Windows)
"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Courage)
"IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere."
- Edward Carpenter
(Related: Dreams, Father, April, Land)
"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium."
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
(Related: Song)
"It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?"
- Jim Carrey
(Related: Death, Dreams, Risk, Surrender)
"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production."
- Angela Carter
(Related: Dream, Hollywood, Production, states, United)
"Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison."
- Angela Carter
(Related: Dream, Cinema, Strangers)
"It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing."
- Howard Carter
(Related: Sight)
"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Dreams, People, Beliefs)
"I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character."
- Dana Carvey
(Related: Life, Dream, Character, Celebrity, World)
"That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station."
- Johnny Cash
(Related: Dream, Force, Growing up, Right, Singing)
"I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!"
- Pat Cash
(Related: Winning)
"Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will."
- Michael N. Castle
(Related: Dream, Goal, Being, First, Meeting, State, Students, Teachers, University, Will)
"Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream."
- Rosalia de Castro
(Related: Happiness, Dream, Earth, Sky)
"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."
- Willa Cather
(Related: Dream, World)
"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions."
- Edgar Cayce
(Related: Dreams, Answers, Questions, Today, Tomorrow)
"My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life."
- Paul Cezanne
(Related: Age, Art, Health, Life, Dream, Will)
"And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now."
- Ahmed Chalabi
(Related: Men, Women, People, Dream, American, Chance, Democracy, Iraq, Now)
"But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action."
- Joshua Chamberlain
(Related: Dreams, Men, Action, Purpose, Thoughts, Ideals, May, Spirits, Will)
"Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive."
- Harry Chapin
(Related: Dreams)
"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."
- Charlie Chaplin
(Related: Romance, Adventure, Gentleman, Lonely)
"People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need."
- Tracy Chapman
(Related: Dreams, People, Want)
"I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it."
- Joan Chen
(Related: People, Want)
"The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us."
- Dick Cheney
(Related: Dreams)
"It's been like a bad dream I never woke from."
- Alex Chilton
(Related: Dream)
"Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life."
- Giorgio de Chirico
(Related: Life, Dream, Inexplicable, Mystery)
"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams."
- Giorgio de Chirico
(Related: Art, Dreams, Work, Childhood, Common sense, Logic, Visions, Will)
"I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football."
- Stephen Chow
(Related: Dream, Football, Poor)
"You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Dream, Commitment, Europe, President, Will)
"It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Dream, Europe, President)
"A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others."
- Chin-Ning Chu
(Related: Dreams, Life, Successful, Understanding)
"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams."
- Madonna Ciccone
(Related: Dreams, Expression, Freedom)
"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Dream, Sleep)
"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."
- Tom Clancy
(Related: Change, Dream, Nothing, Will, World)
"Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance."
- Albert Claude
(Related: Age, Life, Dreams, Earth, Facts, Inheritance, May, Ownership, Years)
"I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare."
- Eldridge Cleaver
(Related: Dream, American, Struggle)
"I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it."
- Roger Clemens
(Related: Love, Work, Dreams, Opportunity, College, Fact, Kids, Trying)
"Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream."
- Grover Cleveland
(Related: Dream, Eyes, Night, Wonder)
"For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: People, Dream, American, Athletes, Now, Sense, World)
"When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable."
- William J. Clinton
(Related: Dream, American, College)
"I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!"
- George Clooney
(Related: Time, Dream, Drinking, Play)
"I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren."
- Tom Coburn
(Related: Dream, American, Children, Promises, Security)
"One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Dream, Friends, Habits, Nothing, Regret, Strangers, Surprises)
"The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London."
- Sebastian Coe
(Related: Dreams, Athletes, Games, London, Will)
"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream."
- Paulo Coelho
(Related: Dream, Help, Universe)
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream."
- Paulo Coelho
(Related: Dream, Heart, Fear, Suffering)
"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself."
- Leonard Cohen
(Related: Dreams, People, Constitution, Land, Nation)
"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress."
- Leonard Cohen
(Related: Dreams, Truth, Absence)
"Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle."
- Sasha Cohen
(Related: Work, Dreams, Exercise, Practice, Variety)
"I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world."
- Steven Cojocaru
(Related: Dreams, Hollywood, World)
"A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Dream, Goal)
"If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Soul, Dream, Paradise, Man)
"As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Dreams, Life, Man)
"On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath."
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Related: Dream, Choice, First)
"Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!"
- Robert Collier
(Related: Work, Thought, Dream, Fact, Mind, Profit)
"I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing."
- Jackie Collins
(Related: American, Fans, Mind)
"If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do."
- Jackie Collins
(Related: Dreams, Want)
"I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence."
- Judy Collins
(Related: Dreams, Meetings, Months, Now, Past)
"I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs."
- Judy Collins
(Related: Dreams, Prose, Song, Songs, Will)
"Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present."
- Robert Conklin
(Related: Dreams, Excitement, Future, Present)
"In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier."
- Michael Connelly
(Related: Work, Hard work, Mind, Pretty)
"Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Life, Dream, Fear)
"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: People, Dream, Man, Sea)
"QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Business, Dream, Fact, Revolution, Succeed)
"I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying."
- Rita Coolidge
(Related: Dream)
"Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone."
- Tommy Cooper
(Related: Night)
"My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus."
- Robert Cormier
(Related: People, Dream, First, Rest, Writer)
"Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!"
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Quiet)
"O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!"
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Art, Life, Beauty, Dream)
"Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up."
- Rachel Corrie
(Related: Dreams)
"Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are."
- Julio Cortazar
(Related: Dreams, Poetry, Play)
"War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares."
- John Cory
(Related: Dreams, War, Eternity, Will)
"The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now."
- Bill Cosby
(Related: Dream, Future, Now, Past)
"Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life."
- Kevin Costner
(Related: Dreams, Life)
"I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'"
- Kevin Costner
(Related: Dreams, Life, People, First)
"It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see."
- Marion Cotillard
(Related: Love, Dream, Hope, Adventure, American)
"Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Dreams, Life, Flying, Right)
"Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Dreams, Age, Being, Past, Pretty)
"There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Dream)
"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."
- Norman Cousins
(Related: Dreams, People)
"I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent."
- Simon Cowell
(Related: Business, Family, Love, Talent, People, Dream, Opportunity, Values, American, Career, Chance, Common sense, Justice, Reality)
"I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap."
- Simon Cowell
(Related: Dream, College, Day, Night, Old, Years)
"It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome."
- Deborah Cox
(Related: Dream, Being, Eyes, Voice)
"We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business."
- Deborah Cox
(Related: Business, Dream, Mentors, Song)
"I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level."
- Deborah Cox
(Related: Thought, Dance, Dream, Acting, Artist, Being, Song, Theatre)
"I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot."
- Deborah Cox
(Related: Production)
"As Realtors, you live and breathe the American dream."
- Charlie Crist
(Related: Dream, American)
"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."
- e. e. cummings
(Related: God, Dream, Day, Infinite, Sky, Spirits, Trees)
"I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams."
- Kenny Cunningham
(Related: Dreams)
"Don't dream it, be it."
- Tim Curry
(Related: Dream)
"I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal."
- Jamie Lee Curtis
(Related: Dream, Being)
"At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: World)
"When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt."
- Clive Cussler
(Related: Time, Advertising, First, Fun, Heroes, Water, Writing)
"Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe."
- Georges Cuvier
(Related: Earth, Theory)
"I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams."
- Miley Cyrus
(Related: Dreams, Family, Hope, Daughters, Fans, Kids, Memories, Mothers, World)
"You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream."
- Miley Cyrus
(Related: Dream, Act, Night, Party)
"I got a chance to have my dream come true, and I wanted to make sure I made the decision as to when I dropped my last album. If I don't feel like this album is an incredible piece of work, then I'm cool with the albums I've done. I don't have to put out another album."
- Puff Daddy
(Related: Work, Dream, Decision, Chance)
"We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse."
- Puff Daddy
(Related: Dreams, Money, Fantasy, Now, Talk, Want)
"If you dream and you believe, you can do it."
- Puff Daddy
(Related: Dream)
"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."
- Salvador Dali
(Related: Dreams, Cause, Eyes, Man, Order, Television)
"My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Dream, Content, Years)
"You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Problems)
"As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel."
- Rick Danko
(Related: Time, Dream, American, Being, Greed, Selfishness)
"I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream."
- Blythe Danner
(Related: Dream, Fact, Favorite, Night, Shakespeare)
"I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles."
- Edwidge Danticat
(Related: Dreams, People, Growing up, Obstacles, Poor, Voice)
"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
- Bette Davis
(Related: Money, Life, Dream, Chance, Labor, Lonely)
"I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place."
- Donald Davis
(Related: Time, Dream, Hope, Fight, Learning)
"It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream."
- Geena Davis
(Related: Dream, Choices, Fantasy, President, Right)
"You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be."
- Geoff Davis
(Related: Government, Mom, Dream, American, First, Growing up, Help, Living, Proof)
"All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream."
- Taylor Dayne
(Related: Dream)
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
- James Dean
(Related: Dream, Today)
"She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public."
- Morris Dees
(Related: Dream, American, Being, Expectations, Job, Public)
"In our dreams we are always young."
- Sarah Louise Delany
(Related: Dreams)
"America was and is the immigrant's dream."
- Don DeLillo
(Related: Dream, America)
"Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Dreams, Trust, People, Acting, Being)
"I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife."
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: Dream, Example, states, Wildlife)
"I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses."
- Bo Derek
(Related: Dream, Horses)
"In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it."
- Jacques Derrida
(Related: Dream, Language, Literature, Philosophy, Writing)
"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."
- Rene Descartes
(Related: Dreams, Sleep)
"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."
- Gail Devers
(Related: Dreams, Faith, Work, Belief, Determination, Vision, Dedication, Hard work)
"So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is."
- Danny DeVito
(Related: Dreams, Man, Road, Woman)
"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen."
- Richard M. DeVos
(Related: Dream, Chance)
"I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams."
- Princess Diana
(Related: Dreams, People, Boys, Emotions, Understanding, Want)
"I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control."
- Bruce Dickinson
(Related: Work, Dreams, Control, Day, Expression, Years)
"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"
- Joan Didion
(Related: Thought, Writing)
"The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream."
- Joan Didion
(Related: Dream, Listening, Writer)
"If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure."
- Vin Diesel
(Related: Home, Dreams, Failure, Thinking)
"My dream is to save women from nature."
- Christian Dior
(Related: Nature, Women, Dream)
"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."
- Walt Disney
(Related: Design, People, Dream, Reality, World)
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
- Walt Disney
(Related: Dreams, Courage)
"All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them."
- Walt Disney
(Related: Dreams, Courage)
"I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true."
- Walt Disney
(Related: Dreams, Money, Life)
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
- Walt Disney
(Related: Dream)
"All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time."
- Otto Dix
(Related: Art, Dreams, Time, Chaos, Effort, Order, Painting, Visions)
"As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through."
- Otto Dix
(Related: Dreams, Houses, Man, Years)
"It's a dream part, running around with guns, being an agent."
- Lexa Doig
(Related: Dream, Being, Running)
"The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad."
- Thomas Dolby
(Related: Dreams, Man)
"I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be."
- Thomas Dolby
(Related: Dream, Reality, Running)
"Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real."
- Donald Wills Douglas
(Related: Dream, Magic)
"The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now."
- Rita Dove
(Related: People, Dream, American, Now)
"I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person."
- Rita Dove
(Related: God, Thought, Dream)
"I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!"
- Rita Dove
(Related: Dream)
"I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream."
- Rachel Dratch
(Related: Dream, Childhood)
"Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream."
- Julia Louis Dreyfus
(Related: Dream)
"Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got."
- Minnie Driver
(Related: Success, Dream, First, May, Singing)
"I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in."
- David Duchovny
(Related: Dream, Basketball, Being)
"I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay."
- Helen Dunmore
(Related: People)
"If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts."
- Adam Duritz
(Related: Dreams, Movies, Memories)
"Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned."
- Emile Durkheim
(Related: Dreams, Reality)
"Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Dream, Actor, Being)
"In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Thought, Kids, School)
"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Dreams)
"I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Nature, Dreams)
"My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer."
- Sheena Easton
(Related: Dream, Focus)
"I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!"
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Actor, First, Play)
"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."
- Umberto Eco
(Related: Dreams, Mistake, Being)
"Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame."
- Umberto Eco
(Related: Blame, Reality)
"A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams."
- Umberto Eco
(Related: Dreams, Nothing, Scripture)
"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Dreams, Rain, Right)
"Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Work, Dream, American, Career, Now, Production, Right)
"I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer."
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
(Related: Dream, Eyes, Mind, Will)
"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man."
- Pliny the Elder
(Related: Dream, Hope, Man, Waking, World)
"My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood."
- Kim Elizabeth
(Related: Imagination, Love, Dreams, Soul, Heart, Blood, Fantasy, Fire, Horror, Light)
"Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking."
- Black Elk
(Related: Dreams, Waking)
"And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me."
- Black Elk
(Related: People, Fear, Vision, Duty, Man, Memory)
"Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?"
- Henry Ellis
(Related: Dreams, Life)
"I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman."
- James Ellroy
(Related: Life, Marriage, People, Dream, Being, Career, Famous, Investigation, Man, Woman)
"I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women."
- Cary Elwes
(Related: Women, Dream, Envy, Will)
"I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever."
- Michael Emerson
(Related: Dreams)
"There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Dream, Illusion, Snow)
"The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Dream, Occupation, Youth)
"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Dreams, Life, Men, God, Man)
"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Dreams, Character)
"I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream."
- Eminem
(Related: Dream)
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
- Desiderius Erasmus
(Related: People, Dream, Reality, World)
"No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Design, Dream, Film, Wonder)
"The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Success, Dream, Disney, Land)
"A goal without a date is just a dream."
- Milton H. Erickson
(Related: Dream, Goal)
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough."
- M. C. Escher
(Related: Dreams, Drugs)
"You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream."
- Gloria Estefan
(Related: Dream)
"As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief."
- Gloria Estefan
(Related: Music, Dream, Successful, Belief, Artist)
"It's not the size of the dreamer, it's the size of the dream."
- Josh Ryan Evans
(Related: Dream)
"There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death."
- Stephen Evans
(Related: Death, Dream)
"I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university."
- Adam Faith
(Related: Dream, Limits, Now, Old, University, Years)
"I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life."
- Edie Falco
(Related: Life, Dream, Balance, Being, Fact)
"There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream."
- Frances Farmer
(Related: Dream, Reality)
"My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform."
- Mike Farrell
(Related: Dreams, Family, Work, People, Future, Rights, Human rights, Reform, Struggle)
"I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams."
- Mike Farrell
(Related: Dreams, Fun, Living)
"The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film."
- Rainer W. Fassbinder
(Related: Dream, Criticism, Film, Hollywood)
"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."
- William Faulkner
(Related: Wisdom, Dream, End)
"A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."
- William Faulkner
(Related: Dream, Gods, Conscience, Gain, Man, Order, Right)
"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."
- William Faulkner
(Related: Dreams, Failure, Perfection)
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
- William Faulkner
(Related: Dream)
"I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show."
- Freddy Fender
"Southern California, where the American Dream came too true."
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(Related: Dream, American)
"I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'"
- Tina Fey
(Related: Ending, Night, Thinking)
"Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again."
- Marsilio Ficino
(Related: Dreams, Books, Feet, Freedom)
"What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along."
- Leslie Fiedler
(Related: Dream, Water)
"The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Dreams, Old, Wind)
"Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing."
- Colin Firth
(Related: Dream, Actors, Will)
"To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature."
- Ernst Fischer
(Related: Dreams, Duty, Literature, Prosperity, Terror)
"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Related: Dream, Madness, Youth)
"We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion."
- Zelda Fitzgerald
(Related: Dreams, Advertising, American, Founding, Infinite, Mail, Play, Promise, Will)
"I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare."
- Ric Flair
(Related: Dream, Man, Woman)
"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Dream, Democracy, Stupidity)
"At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments."
- Mick Fleetwood
(Related: Dream)
"I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true."
- Louise Fletcher
(Related: Mother, Father, Dream, Teaching, Want)
"Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did."
- Curt Flood
(Related: Dream, American, Succeed)
"The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad."
- Scott Foley
(Related: Work, Kiss, Dream, Actor)
"When you cease to dream you cease to live."
- Malcolm Forbes
(Related: Dream)
"As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream."
- Steve Forbes
(Related: Government, People, Dream, American, Freedom, Loss)
"I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of."
- Glenn Ford
(Related: Money, Thought, Actor, Silly, Wind)
"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Business, Dream, Day, Man, Night)
"It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about."
- Richard Ford
(Related: Dream)
"Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream."
- George Foreman
(Related: Dream, Confidence)
"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne."
- Lee De Forest
(Related: Dream, Earth, Land, Man, Moon, Project)
"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."
- Guy Forget
(Related: Time, Dream, Want)
"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
- Milos Forman
(Related: Film, Hollywood)
"She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you."
- Jamie Foxx
(Related: Love, Dreams, Now, Sleep, Talk)
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
- Anatole France
(Related: Dream, Act)
"Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream."
- Anatole France
(Related: Dream, Existence)
"The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?"
- Brendan Francis
(Related: Success, Dream, Man)
"As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be."
- Ron Francis
(Related: Day, Fun, Growing up)
"It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Dream)
"Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love."
- Lucinda Franks
(Related: Love, Men, Baby, Christmas, Night)
"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Dreams, Being, Content, Evil, Impulses, Spirits)
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Dreams, Knowledge, Mind, Road, Unconscious)
"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Dreams)
"Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act."
- Dave Freudenthal
(Related: Dreams, Opportunity, Action, Envy, Will)
"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
- Erich Fromm
(Related: Dreams, Act, Nothing, Sleep)
"Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world."
- Erich Fromm
(Related: Dreams, Language, Myths, World)
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
- James Anthony Froude
(Related: Dream, Character)
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Death, Dreams, Imagination, Love, Experience, History, Knowledge, Hope, Cure, Facts, Grief, Laughter, Myth)
"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."
- Margaret Fuller
(Related: Truth, Waking)
"Whatever dreams I have wished have come true."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Dreams)
"Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream."
- Antoine Fuqua
(Related: Love, Movies, Dream, Being, Growing up, Influence)
"I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Music, Dream, Hope, Fun, Individuality, Want)
"I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Dream)
"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it."
- Neil Gaiman
(Related: Time, People, Ideas, Being, Difference, Writers)
"I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift."
- Mavis Gallant
(Related: Life, Father, Dream, Fear, Vocation, Writing)
"If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is."
- Greta Garbo
(Related: Dream, Hollywood)
"Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates."
- Marguerite Gardiner
(Related: Dreams, Fashion)
"Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see."
- John Gardner
(Related: Dreams, Talking, Words)
"We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality."
- Judy Garland
(Related: Death, Time, Dreams, Imagination, Illusion, Reality)
"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."
- Bill Gates
(Related: Dreams, Chance, Fact)
"We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be."
- Bill Gates
(Related: Dream)
"Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of."
- Gareth Gates
(Related: Travel, Being, First)
"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Dreams, Life, Being, Revenge)
"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her."
- Charles de Gaulle
(Related: Glory)
"I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth."
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
(Related: Love, Dream)
"I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying."
- Uri Geller
(Related: Dreams, Travel, Flying, Focus, Mind, Want)
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
- Jean Genet
(Related: Time, Dream, Act, Darkness, Man, Order)
"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."
- Jean Genet
(Related: Dreams, Youth)
"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt."
- Henry George
(Related: Imagination, Invention, Mankind, March)
"It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it."
- Steven Gerrard
(Related: Dream, Will)
"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."
- Louis Gerstner
(Related: Computers, Dreams, Love, Compassion, Machine, Spirit, Tools, Understanding)
"It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style."
- Gordon Getty
(Related: Business, Style)
"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Dream, Memory, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Trust, Dreams, Eternity)
"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?"
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Soul, Dream, Difference)
"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Dreams, Men, Gold)
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Dreams, Visions)
"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort."
- William Gibson
(Related: Dreams, Science, Job, Public, Writers)
"Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump."
- Kathie Lee Gifford
(Related: Mom, Dream, World)
"People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food."
- Dorothy Gilman
(Related: Food, Dreams, People)
"It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there."
- Greg Ginn
(Related: Music, Dream, Connection, First, Trying, Years)
"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives."
- Todd Gitlin
(Related: People, Dream, Care, Old)
"Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos."
- Jackie Gleason
(Related: Dreams, Power, Life, Creativity, Cosmos, Infinite, Spirit, Waking)
"In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare."
- Sharon Gless
(Related: Life, Time, Dream, Fear, Baby, Children, Fact, Want)
"And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams."
- Sharon Gless
(Related: Dreams, Thought, Writing)
"You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.'"
- Arthur Godfrey
(Related: Family, Dream, Goal, Being, Help, Memory, Now)
"Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language."
- Gail Godwin
(Related: Dreams, Language)
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Dreams, Men, Power)
"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."
- Vincent Van Gogh
(Related: Dream, Painting)
"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream."
- Vincent Van Gogh
(Related: Experience, Nature, Dream, Clarity, Moments)
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
- Vincent Van Gogh
(Related: Dream, Certainty, Nothing, Sight, Stars)
"I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Dream, American, Country, Want)
"When we can't dream any longer we die."
- Emma Goldman
(Related: Dream)
"As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job."
- Jane Goodall
(Related: Money, Mother, Dream, College, England, Job, School, University)
"I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth."
- Nelson Goodman
(Related: Earth, Heaven, Philosophy)
"Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people."
- Dexter Gordon
(Related: Music, Dreams, People, Feelings, Beginning, Jazz, Living)
"Isolation is a self-defeating dream."
- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
(Related: Dream, Isolation, Self)
"As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that."
- Lucas Grabeel
(Related: Dreams, Actor, Want)
"Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way."
- Baltasar Gracian
(Related: Dreams, Will)
"The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born."
- Benny Green
(Related: Time, Father, Dream, Day, First, Jazz, Listening)
"I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet."
- Eva Green
(Related: Living)
"Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans."
- Jeff Greenfield
(Related: Eyes, Public, Republicans, Spirit, Voice)
"We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future."
- Christine Gregoire
(Related: Work, Dream, Future, Help)
"There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance."
- Rachel Griffiths
(Related: Dreams, Chance, Nothing)
"It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams."
- Rachel Griffiths
(Related: Dreams, Time, People, Opportunity, Career, First)
"I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial."
- John Grisham
(Related: Being, Doubt, First, Writer)
"There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
(Related: Dreams, Eye, Mind)
"We control the content of our dreams."
- Thom Gunn
(Related: Dreams, Control, Content)
"If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package."
- Sammy Hagar
(Related: Career)
"You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room."
- Larry Hagman
(Related: Dream, Clothes, Hollywood, Years)
"I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true."
- Arsenio Hall
(Related: Dreams, Fear, Confidence, Deep)
"I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams."
- Ayumi Hamasaki
(Related: Dreams, People)
"I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream."
- Ayumi Hamasaki
(Related: Dreams)
"Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others."
- Laurell K. Hamilton
(Related: Dream, Fantasy, Horror, Question, Trying)
"I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write."
- Laurell K. Hamilton
(Related: People, Fun, Talking, Want, Writers, Writing)
"A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Age, Death, Dream, Youth)
"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."
- Dag Hammarskjold
(Related: Forgiveness, Dream)
"If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?"
- Oscar Hammerstein
(Related: Dream)
"You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?"
- Oscar Hammerstein II
(Related: Dream)
"They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women."
- Ruth Handler
(Related: Dreams, Women, Project)
"We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent."
- Ruth Handler
(Related: Dreams, Business, Talent)
"Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile."
- Lorraine Hansberry
(Related: Dreams, God, Children, Man, Nothing)
"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own."
- Mark Victor Hansen
(Related: Dreams, Control, Goals, Destiny, Future, Want)
"Follow the fellow who follows a dream."
- E. Y. Harburg
(Related: Dream)
"All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is."
- Marcia Gay Harden
(Related: Time, Dream, Being, Now, School, Waiting, Years)
"There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Finance, Government, People, Result)
"I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes."
- Shalom Harlow
(Related: Home)
"I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course."
- Woody Harrelson
(Related: Home, Dream, Disillusionment, Thinking)
"Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true."
- Lorenz Hart
(Related: Dreams)
"I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life."
- Phil Hartman
(Related: Dreams, Life, Fun)
"In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself."
- Robert Hass
(Related: Autumn, Day, Pain, Spring)
"My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream."
- David Hasselhoff
(Related: Dream, Ambition)
"As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: Dream, Illusion, Right)
"If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's."
- Mike Hawkins
(Related: Dreams, Will)
"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Related: Death, Dream, May, Waking)
"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Related: Happiness, May, Pursuit, World)
"I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Dream)
"Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older."
- Isaac Hayes
(Related: Dreams, Music, People, Fish, Fun, Water)
"We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams."
- Robin Hayes
(Related: Dreams, People, America, Jobs, Majority)
"So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world."
- Robin Hayes
(Related: People, Dream, America, American, Majority, Today, Will, World)
"No one could have ever dreamed about how well the show would do."
- Sean Hayes
"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."
- Roy Haynes
(Related: Heart, Day, Thinking, Will)
"I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony."
- Ben Hecht
(Related: Dream)
"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later."
- Mitch Hedberg
(Related: Dreams)
"Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare."
- Frederick Henry Hedge
(Related: Men, Imagination, Power, Act, Man, Shakespeare, Waking)
"Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream."
- Hugh Hefner
(Related: Life, Dream, Living)
"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Boredom, Reading)
"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."
- Joseph Heller
(Related: Dreams, Night, Nothing, Want)
"The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity."
- Arthur Henderson
(Related: War, Civilization, Mankind, Prosperity, Welfare, Will, World, World war)
"You have to give people something to dream on."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: People, Dream)
"What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed."
- Beth Henley
(Related: Acting, Class, Day)
"We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way."
- Brad Henry
(Related: Dream, Opportunity, American, Tools)
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
- Patrick Henry
(Related: Dreams, History, Future, Past)
"There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach."
- John S. Herrington
(Related: Dreams, Innovation)
"That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them."
- Kristin Hersh
(Related: Travel, People, Dream, Job, Mail, Songs, Trying, Want, World)
"Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting."
- Eva Herzigova
(Related: Acting)
"My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco."
- Eva Herzigova
(Related: Dream, Old)
"If you will it, it is no dream."
- Theodor Herzl
(Related: Dream, Will)
"Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are."
- Werner Herzog
(Related: Dreams, Technology, Years)
"Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality."
- James Hetfield
(Related: Dream, Friend, Reality, Sleep, Will)
"Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves."
- Bill Hicks
(Related: Imagination, Life, Dream)
"The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience."
- Tom Hiddleston
(Related: Dream, Mind)
"I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone."
- Patricia Highsmith
(Related: Dream, Want, Writers)
"Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue."
- Faith Hill
(Related: Business, Music, Television)
"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."
- Napolean Hill
(Related: Dreams, Soul, Children, Visions)
"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Dreams, Power, Thoughts, Man, Reality)
"A goal is a dream with a deadline."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Dream, Goal)
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Dreams, Soul, Children, Visions)
"I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy."
- Nicky Hilton
(Related: Dreams, Love, Famous, Kids, Name, Want)
"It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Dream, Animals, Babies, Kids)
"My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream."
- Gregory Hines
(Related: Anger, Dream, Character, Abuse, Alcohol, Depression, Now, Years)
"They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions."
- Ethan A. Hitchcock
(Related: Dreams, Nature, Truth, Being, Danger, Reality)
"Dreams are a scientific fact."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Dreams, Fact)
"I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Dreams, People, Behavior)
"You can't censor people's dreams."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Dreams, People)
"Did anyone ever have a boring dream?"
- Ralph Hodgson
(Related: Dream)
"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Dreams, Ruin)
"I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?"
- Alice Hoffman
(Related: Dreams, Love, Movies, Work, Culture, Loss, Popular, Writers)
"All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are."
- Alice Hoffman
(Related: Dreams, Books)
"Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country."
- Brad Holland
(Related: People, Dream, Artist, Country, Today, Years)
"We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true."
- Katie Holmes
(Related: Dreams)
"Keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die."
- Shannon Hoon
(Related: Time, Cause)
"I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Dream, Childhood)
"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
- Laurence Housman
(Related: Poems, World)
"When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay."
- Libby Houston
(Related: Dreams, Kindness)
"As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm."
- Terrence Howard
(Related: Dreams, Future, Trying)
"Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier."
- Terrence Howard
(Related: Dream, Job)
"If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank."
- William Dean Howells
(Related: Dream, Man)
"Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Dream, Events, May)
"But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid."
- Arianna Huffington
(Related: Dream)
"If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents."
- Clara Hughes
(Related: Dream)
"I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more."
- Clara Hughes
(Related: Love, Thought, Nothing)
"I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House."
- Karen Hughes
(Related: Work, Day)
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?"
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Dream, Sun)
"Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Life, Dreams)
"I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music."
- Sarah Hughes
(Related: Dreams, Music, End)
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Dream, Future, Nothing)
"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Life, Fact, Future, Man)
"Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Death, Dreams, Life, Utopia)
"Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle."
- Bobby Hull
(Related: Dad, Dream, Being, Career, Childhood, Right)
"When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality."
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
(Related: Dream, Beginning, Reality)
"All men of action are dreamers."
- James Huneker
(Related: Men, Action)
"I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights."
- John Hunter
(Related: Bugs, Country, Light, World)
"Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it."
- Rachel Hunter
(Related: Love, Men, Dreams, Marriage, Act, Woman)
"We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true."
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
(Related: Business, Dreams, Government, Aspirations, Generations, Responsibility, Sense)
"It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams."
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Related: Dreams, People, Blessings, Visions, World)
"At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again."
- King Hussein
(Related: Dream, End)
"Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams."
- John Huston
(Related: Dreams, Hollywood)
"Dream in a pragmatic way."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Dream)
"I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist."
- Jacques Ibert
(Related: Dream, Collaboration)
"If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can."
- Billy Idol
(Related: Dream, World)
"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: Dreams)
"Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream."
- Patricia Ireland
(Related: Women, Dream, Progress, Positive, Vision, Want)
"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."
- Jeremy Irons
(Related: Dreams, Time, Machines, Memories)
"Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write."
- Kazuo Ishiguro
(Related: Dreams, Travel, Books, Care, Friends, Journalism, Writer)
"This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league."
- Allen Iverson
(Related: Dream)
"American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams."
- Pico Iyer
(Related: Dreams, America, American)
"I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear."
- LL Cool J
(Related: Dreams, Fear, Past, Saying)
"The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education."
- Alphonso Jackson
(Related: Education, Work, Lie, Dream, Determination, Blame, Hard work, Lies)
"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams."
- Jesse Jackson
(Related: Dreams)
"Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories."
- Jesse Jackson
(Related: Dreams, Memories)
"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams."
- Jesse Jackson
(Related: Dreams, Government, Right, Surrender)
"I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future."
- LaToya Jackson
(Related: Family, Day, Future, Past, Talking, Understanding)
"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation."
- Michael Jackson
(Related: Love, Truth, Soul, Dream, Heart, Creation, Tomorrow)
"I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music."
- Victoria Jackson
(Related: Music, Being, Sound)
"In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words."
- Bianca Jagger
(Related: Equality, Dreams, Law, Liberty, Paris, Value, Words)
"Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Dreams, Mind)
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Dreams, History, Future, Past)
"My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Dream, Hope, Despair, Theory)
"My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas."
- Jerry B. Jenkins
(Related: Movies, Dream, Ideas, Fiction)
"Writers write. Dreamers talk about it."
- Jerry B. Jenkins
(Related: Talk, Writers)
"My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true."
- Derek Jeter
(Related: Dreams, Office, Yankee)
"My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me."
- Derek Jeter
(Related: Dreams, Lie, Future, Yankee)
"As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Society, Dream, American, Language)
"I just adored working with Woody. He was more than I could have ever dreamed of. I'd do it a million times over."
- Scarlett Johansson
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
- Pope John XXIII
(Related: Dreams, Concern, Potential)
"My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her."
- Amy Jo Johnson
(Related: Faith, Mom, Dreams)
"Some people are so afraid of getting to know themselves that they live and define their lives through the dreams and goals of others."
- Darren L. Johnson
(Related: Dreams, People, Goals)
"Whatever you do, never stop dreaming."
- Darren L. Johnson
"Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs."
- Jack Johnson
(Related: Dreams)
"Don't let your dreams be dreams."
- Jack Johnson
(Related: Dreams)
"Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals."
- John H. Johnson
(Related: Dreams, Goals, Confidence)
"I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way."
- Robert Johnson
(Related: Men, HusbDeep)
"The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Dreams, Man, World)
"A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author."
- Stephen C. Johnson
(Related: Successful)
"Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine."
- James Earl Jones
(Related: Dream, Creation)
"Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream."
- Jerry Jones
(Related: Dream, Marines, Will)
"In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it."
- Neil Jordan
(Related: Dreams)
"Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?"
- Jon Bon Jovi
(Related: Dreams, Love, Hell, Magic, Will)
"At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family."
- Milla Jovovich
(Related: Age, Family, Baby, Fun, Now, Right, Want, Years)
"I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests."
- Ashley Judd
(Related: Dream, Variety)
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Dreams, Heart, Vision, Will)
"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Dreams)
"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality."
- Frida Kahlo
(Related: Dreams, Reality)
"I'll see you in my dreams."
- Gus Kahn
(Related: Dreams)
"I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close."
- Henry J. Kaiser
(Related: Dream, Stars, Will)
"You have to dream before your dreams can come true."
- Abdul Kalam
(Related: Dreams)
"We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!"
- Abdul Kalam
(Related: People, Dream, Act, Nation)
"Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended."
- Abdul Kalam
(Related: Dreams)
"Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work."
- Abdul Kalam
(Related: Work, Dream, Sky, Universe)
"It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing."
- Paul Kane
(Related: Dream, Idea, Night, Waking, Writing)
"Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come true."
- Paul Kane
(Related: Dream)
"Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else."
- Alphonse Karr
(Related: Dreams, Happiness, Love)
"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."
- Alphonse Karr
(Related: Love, Marriage, Dream, Accomplishment, End)
"The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him."
- Garry Kasparov
(Related: Dream, President)
"Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: Nature, Creativity)
"A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: Company, Content, Creation)
"Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors."
- Herbert Kaufman
"Evangelism is selling a dream."
- Guy Kawasaki
(Related: Dream, Selling)
"As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me."
- Christine Keeler
(Related: Father)
"When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg."
- Toby Keith
(Related: Trouble)
"My dream is to eventually open a children's theatre."
- Moira Kelly
(Related: Dream, Children, Open, Theatre)
"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die."
- Edward Kennedy
(Related: Dreams, Work, Hope, Cause)
"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Men, Dream, Obvious, Problems, World)
"Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America."
- Mark Kennedy
(Related: Dream, America, American, Being, Challenge, Will, Youth)
"I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs."
- Mark Kennedy
(Related: Family, Dream, College, Concern, Kids, Now)
"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"
- Robert Kennedy
(Related: Dream)
"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Dream, Mankind)
"I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people."
- Hamad bin Isla Al Khalifi
(Related: People, Dream, Country)
"In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator."
- Pir Vilayat Khan
(Related: Experience, Dream, Consciousness, Wishing)
"Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?"
- Nikita Khrushchev
(Related: Will)
"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Age, Dreams, Old, Youth)
"Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist."
- Carole King
(Related: Dream)
"People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error."
- Florence King
(Related: Age, People, Dream, American, Error, Living, Right)
"The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States."
- Peter King
(Related: Dream, Liberal, President, Security, states, United, Utopia)
"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Dream, Day, Glory, Will)
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Dream, Character, Children, Content, Day, Nation, Skin, Will)
"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Dream, Brotherhood, Day, Sons, Will)
"Do noble things, not dream them all day long."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Dream, Day)
"People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around."
- Barbara Kingsolver
(Related: Dreams, Soul, People, Day, Will)
"I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Food, Dream, Hunger, Wishes)
"Actors, after all, dream."
- Nastassja Kinski
(Related: Dream, Actors)
"And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of."
- Nastassja Kinski
(Related: Dream)
"I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream."
- Mark Kirk
(Related: Dream, American, Danger, Debt, Now, Past)
"So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams."
- Sally Kirkland
(Related: Dreams, World)
"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way."
- Robert Kiyosaki
(Related: Success, Dream, Strength, Desire, Disappointment)
"In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel."
- Robert Klein
(Related: Dreams, Dogs, Woman)
"Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description."
- Alexander Kluge
(Related: People, Television)
"I like to dream, but I like to make things happen."
- Heidi Klum
(Related: Dream)
"Being a Victoria's Secret model, which was always my dream."
- Heidi Klum
(Related: Dream, Being)
"This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me."
- Shirley Knight
(Related: Dream, Gardens, Study)
"The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor."
- Alfred A. Knopf
(Related: Dream, Job, Sharing, Writer)
"The more you can dream, the more you can do."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Dream)
"The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King."
- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: Policy, Dream, Difference, Martin, Now, Pretty, Public, Public policy, Teaching)
"My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Dream)
"It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Music, Dream, Spain, Years)
"I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Dreams, Listening, Song)
"There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age."
- John Agyekum Kufuor
(Related: Age, Dreams, Chance, Children, Country, Nation, Old, Suffering)
"At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them."
- William Kunstler
(Related: People, Dream, Blush, First)
"Man is a genius when he is dreaming."
- Akira Kurosawa
(Related: Genius, Man)
"Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain."
- Ray Kurzweil
(Related: Wisdom, People, Dream)
"It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales."
- Jon Kyl
(Related: Dream, American, Example)
"All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream."
- Patti LaBelle
(Related: Dream, Heart)
"Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?"
- Stephen LaBerge
(Related: Dreams, Life, Sense, Sleep, Wonder)
"Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living."
- Stephen LaBerge
(Related: Dream, Living, Research, Sleep)
"If you don't follow your dream, who will?"
- Emeril Lagasse
(Related: Dream, Will)
"New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God."
- Tim LaHaye
(Related: God, People, Being, Fiction, Writers)
"Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that."
- R. D. Laing
(Related: Love, Imagination, Children, Curiosity)
"Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Travel, Dream, Job, Traveling, World)
"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Happiness, People, Dream, Opportunity, Children, Giving)
"I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Travel, Dream, Beginning, Fun, Today, Want)
"If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps."
- Edwin Land
(Related: Family, Work, Money, Dream, Worth)
"Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating."
- Michael Landon
(Related: Dream, Expectations, Mind, Self)
"My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors."
- Franklin Knight Lane
(Related: Dream, Stars)
"I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character."
- Jessica Lange
(Related: Dreams, Character, Singing, Voice)
"Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one."
- Harold Larwood
(Related: Cricket)
"I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep."
- Stan Laurel
(Related: Dream)
"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."
- Ralph Lauren
(Related: Design, Dreams, Clothes)
"People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams."
- Ralph Lauren
(Related: Dreams, People, Money, Class, Clothes)
"I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream."
- Linda Lavin
(Related: Dream, Forget, Pleasure)
"I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Dreams, Thoughts, Result)
"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Men, Sleep, World)
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: Dreams, Men, Act, Day, Eyes, May, Night, Open)
"It may be those who do most, dream most."
- Stephen Leacock
(Related: Dream, May)
"Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf."
- Harper Lee
(Related: Home, People, Dream, Coffee, Golf, Nothing, Right, Walking)
"It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything."
- Laurel Lee
(Related: Peace, Time, Dream, Discontent, Now, Open)
"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Dreams, Time, Computer)
"In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction."
- Janet Leigh
(Related: Truth, Dream, Facts, Fiction, Order, Reality)
"The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated."
- Janet Leigh
(Related: Time, Dream, Media)
"They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train."
- Charles Godfrey Leland
(Related: Dream)
"A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance."
- Stanislaw Lem
(Related: Dream, Chance, Reality, Will)
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
- John Lennon
(Related: Dream, Reality)
"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
- John Lennon
(Related: Dreams, Fairies, Mind, Myths, Now)
"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."
- John Lennon
(Related: Life, Peace, People, Hope, Living, May, Will, World)
"Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it."
- Sean Lennon
(Related: Work, Dream)
"I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream."
- Sean Lennon
(Related: Life, Dream, Film, Myth, Songs)
"I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams."
- Annie Lennox
(Related: Dreams, Life, Death, Expectations, Illness, Loss, Old, Separation, Years)
"Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities."
- Sugar Ray Leonard
(Related: Dreams, Aspirations)
"In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams."
- Sergio Leone
(Related: Dreams, Life, Religion, America, Americans, Childhood)
"A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician."
- Max Lerner
(Related: Dream, Being)
"We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed."
- Doris Lessing
(Related: Dreams, Parents)
"I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams."
- Joanna Noelle Levesque
(Related: Dreams, People, Succeed)
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Dream, Goal, Old)
"Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands."
- Jerry Lewis
(Related: Dream, Man, Woman)
"The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid."
- Juliette Lewis
(Related: Dreams)
"And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream."
- Daniel Libeskind
(Related: Dream, America, American, Liberty)
"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
(Related: Dreams, Man)
"New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Dream, Jazz, World)
"Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame."
- Gordon Lightfoot
(Related: Dream, Being, Blame, Living, Wonder)
"To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom."
- Maya Lin
(Related: Dream, American, Being, Freedom, Want)
"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
- Abraham Lincoln
(Related: Time, Dream, Hope, America, Earth, Will)
"Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream."
- Blanche Lincoln
(Related: Education, Dream, American, Americans)
"It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality."
- Blanche Lincoln
(Related: Dreams, Job, Reality)
"Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests."
- Charles Lindbergh
(Related: Dreams, Future, Living, Yesterday)
"You have to dream dreams to live dreams."
- Eric Lindros
(Related: Dreams)
"Everybody's a dreamer."
- John Lithgow
"Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary."
- Mario Vargas Llosa
(Related: Life, Lie, Dream, Circumstances, Illusion, Literary)
"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
- John Locke
(Related: Truth, Dream, Knowledge, Arguments, Nothing)
"Television is simply automated daydreaming."
- Lee Loevinger
(Related: Television)
"We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness."
- Bernard Loiseau
(Related: Happiness, Dreams, Selling)
"I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Idea, Being, Famous)
"The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Life, Dreams, Charity, Man, Service, Visions)
"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."
- Audre Lorde
(Related: Architecture, Poetry, Change, Dream, Vision, Future)
"But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?"
- H. P. Lovecraft
(Related: Dreams, Poets)
"Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time."
- H. P. Lovecraft
(Related: Dreams, Time, Memories, Mountains, Ocean)
"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams."
- H. P. Lovecraft
(Related: Business, Dreams, Thoughts, Man)
"I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream."
- Jon Lovitz
(Related: Love, Work, Dream, Actor)
"All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words."
- Amy Lowell
(Related: Dreams, Books, Words)
"Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils."
- Amy Lowell
(Related: Will)
"One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams."
- E. V. Lucas
(Related: Dreams, Bed)
"Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality."
- Derek Luke
(Related: Dreams, Actor, Challenge, Day, Reality)
"I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true."
- Derek Luke
(Related: Dreams)
"A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door."
- Joan Lunden
(Related: Life, Dreams)
"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield."
- Douglas MacArthur
(Related: Dreams)
"Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live."
- Douglas MacArthur
(Related: Dream, American, Americans, Country)
"If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us."
- Ernst Mach
(Related: Dreams, Importance)
"If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress."
- Arthur Machen
(Related: Dreams, Dress, Evening, Forgetfulness, Man, Sin, Sun)
"It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis."
- Arthur Machen
(Related: Dreams, Direction, May, Nonsense)
"Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science."
- Arthur Machen
(Related: Business, Dreams, Science, Now, Silly, Years)
"There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream."
- Archibald MacLeish
(Related: Dream, American, Freedom, Humanity, Mind, Nothing, Right, Will)
"There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream."
- Archibald MacLeish
(Related: Dream, American, Freedom, Humanity, Mind, Nothing, Right, Will)
"The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else."
- Elle Macpherson
(Related: Car, People, Dream, Dress, Night, Nothing)
"I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Dreams)
"Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams."
- Joel Madden
(Related: Dreams, Bed, Cute, Will)
"If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream."
- Rene Magritte
(Related: Life, Dream, Waking)
"The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."
- Ella Maillart
(Related: Dreams, Work, Confidence, University)
"Dreams have as much influence as actions."
- Stephane Mallarme
(Related: Dreams, Actions, Influence)
"Sirk was every woman's dream of a director."
- Dorothy Malone
(Related: Dream, Woman)
"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."
- David Mamet
(Related: Drama)
"I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses."
- Nelson Mandela
(Related: Dream, Leaders, Problems, Unity)
"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."
- Nelson Mandela
(Related: Peace, Dream)
"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."
- Nelson Mandela
(Related: Dreams, Forgiveness, Goal, Goodness)
"It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way."
- Camryn Manheim
(Related: Dreams, Play, Television)
"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Dreams, End, Expectation, Greed, Reality, Romantic)
"When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."
- Marilyn Manson
(Related: Dreams, Will, Wishes)
"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them."
- Franz Marc
(Related: Art, Life, Truth, Dream, Expression, Nothing, Questions, Surrender)
"But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of."
- Gabriel Marcel
(Related: Life, Music, Logic, Mathematics)
"My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Dreams, Life, Reality)
"There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become."
- Orison Swett Marden
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Men)
"Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Life, Action, Deep, Man)
"A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace."
- Walter de La Mare
(Related: Dream, Day, Light, May, Waking)
"I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano."
- Teena Marie
(Related: Music, Dream, Night, Passion)
"The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams."
- Ed Markey
(Related: Dreams, Education, Quality, Opportunity, Decision, Skin)
"Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!"
- Edwin Markham
(Related: Life, Dream, End, Fight, Youth)
"My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people."
- Ziggy Marley
(Related: Life, Peace, God, People, Dream, Being)
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Dreams, People, Old)
"Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really."
- George Martin
(Related: Dream, Butterflies, Film, Land, World)
"Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Life, Dream, American, Fulfillment, Nation, Public)
"Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Life, Dream, America, American, Mind, Years)
"I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Time, Truth, Dream, Want)
"It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Dreams, Imagination, Time, People, Vision, Want)
"My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach."
- Harry Mathews
(Related: Dream, Coach, Football, School, Study)
"I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language."
- Harry Mathews
(Related: Dream, Being, Fantasy, France, Italy, Language)
"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."
- Henri Matisse
(Related: Art, Dream, Balance, Fatigue, Influence, Mind, Purity, Relaxation, Serenity)
"Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything."
- Dave Matthews
(Related: Dreams)
"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been."
- Dave Matthews
(Related: Lie, Living)
"As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth."
- Melissa Auf der Maur
(Related: Dreams, Truth, Blood, Old, Reality, World)
"People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true."
- Mary McAleese
(Related: Dreams, People)
"NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Public, School, Space)
"As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate."
- John McCain
(Related: Dream, Honesty, Decency, Rest)
"Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness."
- Bill McCartney
(Related: Dreams, Men, Greatness, Magic)
"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Peace, Fire, Growing up, Open)
"I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung."
- John McCormack
(Related: Success, Dream, Career, Irish, Night, Now, Old, Songs)
"My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and."
- Karen McDougal
(Related: Dream, Man, Paris, Will, Wine)
"I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever."
- Brownie McGhee
(Related: Dream, Care, Future, Past)
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
- George McGovern
(Related: Men, Old)
"If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams."
- Joel McHale
(Related: Dreams, Lie)
"For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Fathers, Founding, Freedom, Pursuit, Reality, Today, World)
"It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'"
- Jacqueline McKenzie
(Related: Work, Dream, Hell)
"Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have."
- Brian McKnight
(Related: Dream, Aspirations, Basketball, Being, Court, Job)
"To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves."
- Peter McWilliams
(Related: Dreams, Control, Comfort, Living, Zone)
"Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream."
- Peter McWilliams
(Related: Dream, Being, Living, May)
"I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream."
- Thomas Francis Meagher
(Related: Intelligence, Dream, Death, Birth, Country, Freedom, Now)
"If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education."
- Ken Mehlman
(Related: Education, History, Quality, Dream, American, Decisions, Key)
"I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Work, Dream, Acting, Actor, Job)
"This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Work, Dream, Actor)
"I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Love, Dream, Building, Day)
"What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream."
- Mike Melville
(Related: Dream, Want)
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Democracy, Heaven, Santa claus)
"Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Dreams, People, Boston, Children)
"Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed."
- Gian Carlo Menotti
(Related: Life, Dream, Waiting)
"At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw."
- James Merrill
(Related: Dream, College, Thinking)
"A daydream is an evasion."
- Thomas Merton
"Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself."
- Gustave Meyrink
(Related: Dreams, Man, Reality, Sleep)
"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."
- James A. Michener
(Related: Dreams, Life, Defeat, Reality, Temptation)
"Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them."
- James A. Michener
(Related: Dream, Scientists)
"Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary."
- Thomas Middleton
(Related: Dreams)
"College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families."
- Barbara Mikulski
(Related: Dream, Financial, American, College)
"I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door."
- Arthur Miller
(Related: Dream, Sleep)
"In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams."
- Laura Miller
(Related: Dreams, Money, Being, Interest, Open, Waste)
"The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime."
- Laura Miller
(Related: Family, Sacrifice, Dream, Waste)
"You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Work, Dream, First, Want)
"I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Dreams, Mother, Father, Future)
"Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream."
- Liza Minnelli
(Related: Dream, Mind, Possibilities)
"Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Life, Time, Dream, Old, Will)
"I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Dream, Care, Country, May)
"No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Dreams, Food, Blind, Eye, Man)
"Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Dreams, Day, Ending, Spirit, Summer, Youth)
"Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at."
- Joni Mitchell
(Related: People, Dream, Duty)
"This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting."
- Radha Mitchell
(Related: Dreams, Acting, Will)
"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Being)
"We must not let our passions destroy our dreams."
- Thomas S. Monson
(Related: Dreams)
"Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Life, Dream, Right, Sleep, Waking)
"Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Love, Soul, Dream, Life, Eyes, World)
"Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live."
- Joe Montana
(Related: Dreams, Heart, First, Want)
"To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!"
- Alfred A. Montapert
(Related: Dream, First)
"I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice."
- Edward Moore
(Related: Dreams)
"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"
- George A. Moore
(Related: Dream, Reality)
"Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting."
- Shemar Moore
(Related: Dream, Acting, Baseball)
"No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream."
- Thomas Moore
(Related: Life, Dream, Love, Nothing)
"No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream."
- Gustave Moreau
(Related: Faith, Work, Dream, Importance, Man, Nothing, World)
"Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?"
- Jeanne Moreau
(Related: Being, Man, Woman)
"We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us."
- Marc Morial
(Related: Action, Challenge, Man)
"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."
- Toni Morrison
(Related: Trust, Power, Dream)
"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith."
- Mary Manin Morrissey
(Related: Faith, Dream, Fear)
"I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show."
- Emily Mortimer
(Related: People, Drinking, Friends, School, Sense)
"I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl."
- Emily Mortimer
(Related: Life, Being, Dancing, Fantasy)
"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Dream, Freedom, Secrecy)
"It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Dreams, People, Reality)
"The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."
- Lewis Mumford
(Related: People, Dream, Cities)
"I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company."
- Graeme Murphy
(Related: Dreams, Company)
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
- W. H. Murray
(Related: Power, Genius, Dream, Boldness, Magic)
"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."
- Joyce A. Myers
(Related: Dream)
"It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
- Vladimir Nabokov
(Related: Dreams, Genius, African, Pity, Snow)
"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
- Vladimir Nabokov
(Related: Dreams, Genius, African, Snow)
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Power, Leader, Dream, Vision, Conviction, Energy)
"If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good."
- Parminder Nagra
(Related: Dream, Positive)
"Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that."
- Parminder Nagra
(Related: Dream, Heart, Deep, Football, Obstacles, Passion)
"I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession."
- Parminder Nagra
(Related: Dream, Acting, Profession)
"I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world."
- Mira Nair
(Related: World)
"I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis."
- Mira Nair
(Related: Dream, Nostalgia)
"But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning."
- Anna Neagle
(Related: Enjoyment, Planning, Solitude)
"Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Dreams, Peace)
"Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Dreams, Idea, Being)
"Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen."
- Corin Nemec
(Related: Dreams, Life, Ability)
"Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world."
- Gerard De Nerval
(Related: Dreams, Life, World)
"When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation."
- Gerard De Nerval
(Related: Life, Soul, Thought, Dream, Disorder, Mind, Reflection, Religious)
"I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream."
- Michael Nesmith
(Related: Dream, Day, Word)
"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Age, Religion, Dream, Idea, Sentiment)
"Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out."
- Marc Newson
(Related: Work, Dream, Months, Play)
"Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness."
- Ben Nicholson
(Related: Dreams, Happiness, Politics, People, Community)
"You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility."
- Stevie Nicks
(Related: Dreams, Girlfriend, Possibility, Man, Romantic, Tomorrow)
"Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also."
- Claude Nicollier
(Related: Dream)
"My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas."
- Claude Nicollier
(Related: Dream, First)
"I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream."
- Lennart Nilsson
(Related: Technology, Dream, Ideas, Computer)
"My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture."
- Leonard Nimoy
(Related: Dream, Trying)
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
- Anais Nin
(Related: Dreams, Life, Love, Friend, Country, Space, Will)
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."
- Anais Nin
(Related: Dream, Running)
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
- Anais Nin
(Related: Life, Dreams, Action, Connection, Unconscious)
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."
- Anais Nin
(Related: Dreams, Action, Actions, Living, Reality)
"Dreams are necessary to life."
- Anais Nin
(Related: Dreams, Life)
"Everything starts as somebody's daydream."
- Larry Niven
"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."
- Marsha Norman
(Related: Dreams, Soul, Writing)
"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming."
- Novalis
(Related: Dream, Waking)
"I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer."
- Ivor Novello
(Related: Dreams, Career)
"I really have the American dream licked."
- Ted Nugent
(Related: Dream, American)
"If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things."
- Gary Numan
(Related: Dreams, Thought, Struggle)
"Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness."
- Conor Oberst
(Related: Happiness, Dream, Bed, Flowers, Lovers, Now, Sleep)
"Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?"
- Conor Oberst
(Related: God, Dream, Salvation, Want)
"Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics."
- Dan O'Brien
(Related: Dream, Winning, Gold, World)
"Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score."
- Ric Ocasek
(Related: Dream, Want)
"You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones."
- Ben Okri
(Related: Dream, Kids)
"It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream."
- Tony Oliva
(Related: Dream, Opportunity, Feeling, Kids)
"Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!"
- Mary-Kate Olsen
(Related: Travel, People, Dream, Act, Career, World)
"The smaller the head, the bigger the dream."
- Austin O'Malley
(Related: Dream)
"I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me."
- Tatum O'Neal
(Related: Acting, Actors, Film)
"The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll."
- Jerry Only
(Related: Dream, Childhood, Punk, Songs)
"We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children."
- Yoko Ono
(Related: Children, World)
"I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you."
- Roy Orbison
(Related: Dreams, Eyes, Magic, Night, Prayer)
"For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue."
- Solomon Ortiz
(Related: Home, Time, Work, Dream, American, Tax, Hard work, Years)
"We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream."
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
(Related: Music, Dream)
"Do all you can to make your dreams come true."
- Joel Osteen
(Related: Dreams)
"Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit."
- Bill Owens
(Related: People, Dream, American, Generations, Worry)
"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done."
- Buck Owens
(Related: Mother, Dream)
"That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life."
- Buck Owens
(Related: Life, Dream)
"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."
- Jesse Owens
(Related: Dreams, Determination, Dedication, Effort, Order, Reality, Self)
"Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be."
- Joy Page
(Related: Soul, Dream, Beliefs)
"Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be."
- Joy Page
(Related: Dream)
"You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it."
- Joy Page
(Related: Dream, Identity, Order)
"I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream."
- Carl Paladino
(Related: Dream, American)
"That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time."
- Brian De Palma
(Related: Dreams, Time, Being)
"I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie."
- Brian De Palma
(Related: Dream)
"Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true."
- Paracelsus
(Related: Dreams)
"However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream."
- Paracelsus
(Related: Dream)
"From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them."
- Paracelsus
(Related: Time, Dreams, Artists, Sleep)
"Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration."
- Paracelsus
(Related: Dreams, Inspiration, Fantasy, May, Meaning)
"The interpretation of dreams is a great art."
- Paracelsus
(Related: Art, Dreams)
"The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament."
- Paracelsus
(Related: Dreams, God, Angels, Nothing, Promises, Spirits, Supernatural)
"I'm a daydreamer."
- Sara Paretsky
"We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families."
- George E. Pataki
(Related: People, Dream, Future)
"My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on."
- Mandy Patinkin
(Related: Dream, Now)
"I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can."
- Carly Patterson
(Related: Dream, Goal, Chance, Want)
"I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache."
- Scott Patterson
(Related: Dreams, Actor, Feet, Mountains)
"Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end."
- Jean Paul
(Related: Life, Dream, End, Reason)
"Deserve your dream."
- Octavio Paz
(Related: Dream)
"Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality."
- Lester B. Pearson
(Related: Dreams, Faith, Peace, Day, May, Reality, Today, World)
"Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits."
- Frank Perdue
(Related: Dream, Baseball)
"After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it."
- Carl Perkins
(Related: Dreams, Day, Gold, Wood)
"Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality."
- Ross Perot
(Related: Dreams, Jobs, Reality, Will)
"I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream."
- Rick Perry
(Related: Dream, American, Conservative, Nation, Republican, Today, United)
"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
- Michael Phelps
(Related: Dream)
"Christianity is a battle not a dream."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Dream, Christianity, Battle)
"Never let your dreams go away."
- Mike Piazza
(Related: Dreams)
"It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great."
- Rosamund Pike
(Related: Dream, Friend, Film, Teenage, Theatre, Writer, Years, Youth)
"I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return."
- Zebulon Pike
"Men are the dreams of a shadow."
- Pindar
(Related: Dreams, Men, Shadow)
"I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true."
- Luigi Pirandello
(Related: Dreams, Love, Time, Art, Heart, Soul, Mind, Writing)
"In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream."
- Luigi Pirandello
(Related: Love, Dream, Bed, Sleep)
"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"
- Plato
(Related: Dream, Thoughts, State, Talking, Waking)
"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true."
- Edgar Allan Poe
(Related: Dreams, Hope, Content, Man, World)
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
- Edgar Allan Poe
(Related: Dream, Day, Night)
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
- Edgar Allan Poe
(Related: Dream, Day, Night)
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
- Edgar Allan Poe
(Related: Dream)
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
- Edgar Allan Poe
(Related: Dreams, Darkness, Deep)
"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
- Edgar Allan Poe
(Related: Dream, Existence, Fancy, Future, Present)
"I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler."
- Amy Poehler
(Related: Growing up)
"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
- John Charles Polanyi
(Related: Scientists)
"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Dream, Courtship)
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself."
- Ferdinand Porsche
(Related: Car, Sports, Dreams)
"I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show."
- Natalie Portman
(Related: Dream, Dancing)
"I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year."
- Natalie Portman
(Related: Dream, Visit)
"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
- Colin Powell
(Related: Work, Dream, Determination, Hard work, Magic, Reality)
"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages."
- Terry Pratchett
(Related: Dreams, Time, Rest, Wages)
"He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end."
- Hugo Pratt
(Related: Dreams, End, Eyes, Open)
"When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach."
- Victoria Pratt
(Related: Dream, Coach, School, University)
"When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Movies, Dream, Books)
"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Dream, Ambition)
"I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Thought, People, Childhood)
"I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream."
- Victoria Principal
(Related: Car, Money, Dream, Girls, Job)
"Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Dreams)
"Hope is but the dream of those who wake."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Dream, Hope)
"For hope is but a dream for those that wake."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Dream, Hope)
"Dreams grow holy put in action."
- Adelaide Anne Procter
(Related: Dreams, Action)
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
- Marcel Proust
(Related: Time, Dream, Cure)
"What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?"
- Manuel Puig
(Related: Dreams)
"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
- Manuel Puig
(Related: Dreams, Cinema, Reality)
"In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life."
- Salvatore Quasimodo
(Related: Life, Dreams, Acceptance, Illness, Man, Misery, Opposition, Poverty)
"My dream job has already happened."
- Kathleen Quinlan
(Related: Dream, Job)
"Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake."
- Marcus Fabius Quintilian
(Related: Dreams)
"Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily."
- Gilda Radner
(Related: Dreams)
"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth."
- Ayn Rand
(Related: Dream, Greatness, Earth, Heaven, Now, Waiting)
"Art is life's dream interpretation."
- Otto Rank
(Related: Art, Dream, Life)
"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth"."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Dream)
"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them."
- Man Ray
(Related: Dreams, Determination)
"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive."
- Man Ray
(Related: Imagination, Dreams, Unconscious)
"Strivers achieve what dreamers believe."
- Usher Raymond
"Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow."
- Leon Redbone
(Related: Dreams, Day, Joy, Sorrow, Tomorrow)
"The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Dreams, People, Problems)
"There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind."
- Henry Reed
(Related: People, Dream, Effort, Lying, Mind, Skill, Writing)
"When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Time, Dream)
"People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Dreams, People, Hearing, Learning, Public, Reality, Tension)
"It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Dreams, Life, Reason)
"If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Parenting, Power, Truth, Press)
"I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Dreams, People, First, Psychology, Study)
"Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Son, Dream, Saying)
"People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Dreams, People, Value)
"Dreams seem to have a will of their own."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Dreams, Will)
"Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Dreams)
"Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Dreams, Reality, Understanding)
"Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Dreams, Culture, Study, World)
"At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable."
- Christopher Reeve
(Related: Dreams, First)
"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
- Christopher Reeve
(Related: Dreams, First, Will)
"And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true."
- Keanu Reeves
(Related: Work, Dream)
"I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality."
- Martha Reeves
(Related: Dreams, God, Reality)
"I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true."
- Martha Reeves
(Related: Dreams)
"The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner."
- Martha Reeves
(Related: Graduation, Dream, College, Hunting, Job)
"Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality."
- Theodor Reik
(Related: Change, Love, Dream, Reality, World)
"Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time."
- Paul Reiser
(Related: Dreams, Time, People, Theater)
"Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for."
- Mary Lou Retton
(Related: Dream, Famous)
"My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic."
- Christina Ricci
(Related: Love, Movies, Life, Dream, Being, Romantic)
"We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel."
- Tim Rice
(Related: Dream, Want)
"Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance."
- Adam Rich
(Related: Selling, Friends, Guidance, Respect)
"Acting is the ability to dream on cue."
- Ralph Richardson
(Related: Dream, Ability, Acting)
"It's every girl's dream to be a cover girl!"
- Rihanna
(Related: Dream)
"It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it."
- Rihanna
(Related: Music, People, Dream, Difference, Play, World)