Quotes about: dreams

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
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
– Ashley Smith
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 takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
– Les Brown
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 better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
– Jim Carrey
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
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 comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.
– Hugh Hefner
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 sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.
– Mitch Hedberg
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 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 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
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