Dreams Quotes

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
– Max Beerbohm
People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.
– Kirsty Coventry
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
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
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
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
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
– Paul Wellstone
Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
– Olive Schreiner
Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
– Jack Johnson
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
– Jesse Jackson
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
One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.
– Jennifer Carpenter
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
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
– A. B. Yehoshua
One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.
– Picabo Street
One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.
– Brandy Norwood
Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
– Jim Bakker
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
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
– H. P. Lovecraft
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
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
No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.
– LeRoy Neiman
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
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
– Elie Wiesel
No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.
– Elizabeth Berkley
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
– W. Clement Stone
No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.
– Donald G. Mitchell
Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!
– Paula Radcliffe
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
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.
– Giorgio Armani
My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
– John Astin
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
– Theodore Sturgeon
My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
– Dane Cook
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.
– Maria de Villota
My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.
– Diane Keaton
My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.
– Puff Daddy
My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.
– Liza Minnelli
My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.
– Julian Castro
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
My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
– Anthony Hopkins
My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.
– Derek Jeter
My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'
– John Mayer
My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
– Ziggy Marley
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
– Imelda Marcos
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
– Imelda Marcos
My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.
– Siouxsie Sioux
My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.
– Karlie Kloss
My dreams are all follies.
– Taylor Caldwell
My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer.
– Brittany Murphy
My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
– Carla Bruni
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
– Peter Diamandis
My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.
– Ricky Schroder
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
– Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
Most of my actor friends don't believe it's possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.
– Genie Francis
Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.
– Hal Sparks
Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.
– Marco Rubio
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
– William Graham Sumner
Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.
– Steve Harvey
Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
– Rachel Hunter
Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.
– Michael Zaslow
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
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
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
– Akira Kurosawa
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
– Mick Jagger
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
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
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
– Antonio Tabucchi
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
– Jean Baudrillard
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.
– Russell Baker
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.
– Ryunosuke Satoro
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
– Arna Bontemps
Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.
– Concha Buika
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
– Friedrich Schiller
Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.
– Luke Bryan
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
It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.
– Josh Gad
It's surreal to know my dreams are coming true.
– Mario Vazquez
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
It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.
– Christine Taylor
It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal.
– Angie Harmon
It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.
– Michael Chang
It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
– Vin Diesel
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
It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.
– Ethan Hawke
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
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
It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
– Forest Whitaker
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
– Zora Neale Hurston
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
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
It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.
– Picabo Street
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
It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
– Spike Lee