Dreams Quotes

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
– J. K. Rowling
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
Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
– Jodi Picoult
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
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
In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.
– Tom Hiddleston
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
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
In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.
– Steve Carell
In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
– Hugh Hefner
In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I've seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.
– Nigel Lythgoe
In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
– Louise Brooks
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
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
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
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
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
If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.
– Billy Campbell
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
If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.
– Joel McHale
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
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
– Booker T. Washington
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
– Romain Rolland
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
– Ernst Mach
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
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
– Adam Duritz
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
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
I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.
– Phil Hartman
I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
– R. L. Stine
I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
– Danica Patrick
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
– Brian Eno
I've had dreams about tricks.
– Shaun White
I've got heaps of dreams.
– Abbie Cornish
I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.
– Christopher Nolan
I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.
– Michael Emerson
I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.
– Joe Jonas
I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.
– Alex Pettyfer
I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.
– Chanel Iman
I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
– William H. Macy
I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.
– Todd Barry
I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
– Jon Stewart
I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
– Sam Raimi
I'm living out my dreams and I love what I do.
– Ashley Tisdale
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
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
– Isabel Allende
I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.
– William Sanderson
I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
– Mike Tyson
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
I'll see you in my dreams.
– Gus Kahn
I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.
– Drew Barrymore
I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.
– Sergey Brin
I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.
– Jeff Mangum
I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.
– Joe Cornish
I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.
– Martha Reeves
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
I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.
– Tina Fey
I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.
– Giuliana Rancic
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
I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.
– George Hickenlooper
I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn't have to worry about that aspect. I could just pursue my dreams.
– Cam Gigandet
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
– Susan Sontag
I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.
– Michelle Bachelet
I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.
– Julie Walters
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
– Charley Pride
I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
– Octavia Spencer
I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
– Abraham Cahan
I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.
– Fantasia Barrino
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
– Joseph Heller
I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.
– Novak Djokovic
I want to find someone who's really into something like I'm really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.
– Hunter Hayes
I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.
– Ayumi Hamasaki
I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
– David Copperfield
I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.
– Nicole Kidman
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
– LL Cool J
I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
– Tori Amos
I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.
– Sue Monk Kidd
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
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
I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal.
– Nicholson Baker
I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.
– Lance Bass
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
– Patrick Dempsey
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
– Manuel Puig
I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.
– Jarvis Cocker
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
I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'
– Michael Clarke Duncan
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.
– Martha Reeves
I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
– Nancy Pelosi
I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.
– Alison Sweeney
I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.
– Joel Kinnaman
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
I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.
– Krista Allen
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
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
– Khalil Gibran
I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.
– Vicente Fox
I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.
– Ben Barnes
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
– Frida Kahlo
I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.
– Alison Krauss
I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.
– Kenny Cunningham