Quotes about: dreams

The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, the brooks for the fishes of song.
– Sam Walter Foss
She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.
– Jamie Foxx
Our memories are an untidy family album crammed with images and dreams, scattered and uncatalogued, and their sudden recurrence is wholly unpredictable.
– Don Freeman
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
– John Gardner
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
– Judy Garland
I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.
– Uri Geller
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
– Kahlil Gibran
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
– William Gibson
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
– Jackie Gleason
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
– Gail Godwin
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
– Baltasar Gracian
I was never a bookworm. I remember reading Dr. Seuss, the Hardy Boys, Emil and the Detectives, Chip Hilton, and lots of Mark Twain and Dickens. My athletic ability did nothing but invite taunts. I was an indifferent student and an athlete with delusions of adequacy, dreams of adulation.
– John Grisham
I read a lot. And both of my parents, I think, would have wanted to be writers. It's funny how one ends up doing the things that-that parents-perhaps, the dreams that parents couldn't fulfill. I know that my mother would have been beyond herself to have had a story published in The New Yorker.
– Alma Guillermoprieto
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Your eyes were dim with distant dreams, you tended, no more with care the holy fief and knew, in every space the breath of living ended -Now lift your head for joy has come to you.
– Stefan George
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
– Louis Gerstner
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
– Dorothy Gilman
I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
– Alex Haley
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
– Werner Herzog
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
– Napoleon Hill
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
– Eric Hoffer
I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.
– Sarah Hughes
Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.
– John Huston
Let us always remember that our homeland needs people who would tackle its problems and concerns in a rational and realistic fashion as well as in a creative and balanced way, and not those who would take it to the level of dreams and unrealistic imagination in a world of illusions and sloganism.
– King Hussein
I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.
– Ayumi Hamasaki
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
– Mark Victor Hansen
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
– Isaac Hayes
Once again, this nation has said there are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.
– John S. Herrington
You can get caught up in the visceral charge of its engines, sing along with its chunky tunes and dream its romantic dreams and still feel the cold wind of the history blowing through its pages.
– Stephen Holden
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
– Libby Houston
I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
– Eugene Ionesco
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
– Jeremy Irons
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
– Derek Jeter
The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.
– Jill Johnston
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
– Alphonse Karr
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
– Edward Kennedy
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
– Soren Kierkegaard
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
– Soren Kierkegaard
It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it.
– Barbara Kingsolver
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
– Barbara Kingsolver
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
– Roger Kahn
Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.
– Robert J. Kibbee
There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
– John Agyekum Kufuor
Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
– Ann Landers
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
– David Herbert Lawrence
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
– Thomas E. Lawrence
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
– John Lennon
I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.
– Annie Lennox
This consumeristic society we all live in is very complex. We all have very high expectations - we want the big house or the car and the 2.5 kids - but we don't know whether it really brings us happiness and fulfilment because sometimes those dreams burst.
– Annie Lennox
Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the President of the United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, is bitterly disappointed. He is crushed. There go his dreams of becoming a two-impeachment family.
– David Letterman
The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.
– Juliette Lewis
It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.
– Blanche Lincoln
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
– Charles Lindbergh
All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
– Amy Lowell
Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?
– Stephen LaBerge
I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
– Ralph Lauren
I thank God I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure is sometimes the first step to success, and where success is only another form of failure if we forget where our priorities should be.
– Harry Lloyd
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
– Haniel Long
A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.
– Joan Lunden
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
– General Douglas MacArthur
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
– Nelson Mandela
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
– Og Mandino
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
– Marilyn Manson
Everyone has secret ambitions; mine was to be a rock singer. I thought I could sing. But when you sing in the shower, or with headphones, what sounds good to you doesn't always sound so great to others. My parents demanded I close all our windows when I acted out my rock dreams.
– Dan Marino
Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.
– Dave Matthews
People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.
– Mary McAleese
As I ponder and pray in the stillness, I dream as a dreamer of dreams. A steepled church stands before me-a church with open doors. Within it I see the preacher stand; hear his voice in earnest call. But 'tis the throng that flows through the street outside that holds my anxious gaze.
– Aimee Semple McPherson
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
– Peter McWilliams
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
– Herman Melville
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
– James A. Michener
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
– Edward Moore
When I slept, armies of footnotes marched across my dreams in close-order drill.
– Ted Morgan
Hopefully my book will do very well. I'm not in it to sell a million books. I want to get my story out. I want people to know that things have not come easy to me and that I've had to work hard to get where I am. Hopefully this book will inspire other people to follow their dreams.
– Rita Mero
The warehouse with all those crates, thousands of them, stretching out as far as the eye can see. 227 metric tons of fish from around the world-fish with muscular tails wide as a weight lifter's chest, fish with big, open mouths and shining eyes, fish from deep places and deep dreams.
– David Michaelis
If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end of our dreams.
– Archie Lee Moore
I had two dreams when I was a young fella. I wanted to be a policeman and a cowboy.
– Clayton Moore
I realized a dream I'd had since I was three. But I wanted to spend more time with my kids, and help them pursue their dreams.
– Jim Morris
We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.
– Billy Barty
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
– Vladimir Nabokov
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
– Gerard De Nerval
You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
– Stevie Nicks
Dreams are necessary to life.
– Anais Nin
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
– Anais Nin
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
– Anais Nin
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
– Marsha Norman
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
– Jesse Owens
After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
– Carl Perkins
Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
– Ross Perot
God wills, Man dreams, the Work is born.
– Fernando Pessoa
Never let your dreams go away.
– Mike Piazza
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
– Pindar
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
– Luigi Pirandello
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
– Terry Pratchett
Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
– Matthew Prior
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, but where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
– Adelaide Anne Procter
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
– Marcus Fabius Quintilian
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
– Man Ray
Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.
– Jane Roberts