Quotes about: dreams

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.
– Dick Cheney
The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.
– Christopher Alexander
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
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
– Oprah Winfrey
The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.
– Cleveland Abbe
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
– Elizabeth Bishop
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
That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.
– Sandra Bernhard
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
Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.
– Peter Arno
Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.
– Gael Garcia Bernal
Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
– Giotto di Bondone
Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.
– LL Cool J
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
– Armstrong Williams
Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'
– Karl Malone
Sometimes your dreams come true.
– Frank Bruno
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
– Black Elk
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
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
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
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
– Suze Orman
So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.
– Rick Baker
Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.
– John Malkovich
Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
– Pamela Stephenson
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
Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.
– Lois McMaster Bujold
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
– Victoria Woodhull
Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.
– Anna Benson
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.
– Jim Woodring
Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
– King Abdullah II
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
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.
– Rose Tremain
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
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 life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
– Victor Hugo
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
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 taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
– Clay Aiken
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
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