Dreams Quotes

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
I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.
– Tom Hooper
I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.
– Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
I married the man of my dreams in 1998.
– Cindy Margolis
I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
– Florence Griffith Joyner
I love watching people's dreams come true.
– Jessica Simpson
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
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
– Irvin Kershner
I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.
– Joanna Noelle Levesque
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
– Thomas Jefferson
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
– Wallace Shawn
I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.
– Enrique Iglesias
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
– Lana Del Rey
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
– J. K. Rowling
I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
– Natalie du Toit
I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
– Dolly Parton
I have those dreams that you can't put into words.
– Harry Connick, Jr.
I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.
– Celine Dion
I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.
– Chaske Spencer
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
– Jonas Salk
I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
– Christopher Nolan
I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.
– Tom Perrotta
I have absurdly vivid dreams.
– Erin Morgenstern
I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
– Karlie Kloss
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
I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.
– Greta Gerwig
I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.
– Robin Yount
I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.
– AnnaLynne McCord
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
I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
– Jane Pauley
I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
– Gary Ross
I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.
– Jayma Mays
I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
– Jean Paul Gaultier
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
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
– Zhuangzi
I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.
– Alanis Morissette
I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.
– Julian Castro
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
I challenge you to be dreamers I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.
– Brian Schweitzer
I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.
– Gabrielle Reece
I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
– Samantha Barks
I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.
– Mike Farrell
I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
– Oscar Pistorius
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.
– David Talbot
I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.
– Jon Meacham
I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.
– Miguel Jontel Pimentel
I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
– Ivor Novello
I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.
– Victor Ortiz
I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.
– Jean Paul Gaultier
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
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
– Allen Tate
I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
– Arsenio Hall
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
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
I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.
– Eric Burdon
I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction,' we all knew.
– Steven Adler
I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
– Patrick Roy
I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.
– Graeme Murphy
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
– Oscar Niemeyer
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
– Bram Stoker
Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.
– Cassandra Peterson
Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.
– Roy Keane
Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.
– Amy Heckerling
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
– Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
– Langston Hughes
High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
– Robert H. Schuller
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
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
– Marguerite Gardiner
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
– Les Brown
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
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
– Douglas Adams
Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.
– Kristi Yamaguchi
Happiness is making your dreams come true.
– Jourdan Dunn
Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary.
– Thomas Middleton
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
– Abdul Kalam
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'
– Sue Monk Kidd
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
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
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.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
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
Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.
– Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.
– Chris Brown
Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.
– Donovan Bailey
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
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
– Rachel Corrie
Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
– Doug Coupland
Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
– Kevin Costner
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
Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
– Samantha Morton
Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta they go too low.
– Sylvia Browne
Everybody's a dreamer.
– John Lithgow
Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.
– NeNe Leakes
Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.
– Conan O'Brien
Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.
– Liam McIntyre
Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.
– Kelly Rowland
Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.
– Chloe Sevigny
Each has its lesson for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
– Henry Timrod
Dreams seem to have a will of their own.
– Henry Reed
Dreams sometimes foretell the future.
– Mickey Hart