Quotes on Dream

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

Author: Peter Abrahams

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

Author: Jean Alesi

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

Author: Sherman Alexie

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

Author: Muhammad Ali

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

Author: Robert Allen

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?

Author: Woody Allen

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

Author: Laurie Anderson

I had to do something special coming in. I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true.

Author: Stuart Appleby

Hope is a waking dream.

Author: Aristotle

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Author: Aristotle

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

Author: Matthew Arnold

Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.

Author: Leon Askin

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

Author: Armand Assante

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

Author: Roger Babson

David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does.

Author: Jillian Bach

My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.

Author: Jim Bakker

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Author: Toni Bambara

The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.

Author: Carol Bellamy

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

Author: Dirk Benedict

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

Author: Bo Bennett

A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.

Author: Bo Bennett

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

Author: Chester Bennington

I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

Author: Juliette Binoche

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

Author: William Blake

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

For years I've kept a list of dream projects.

Author: Michael Bolton

Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.

Author: Henry Bonilla

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

Author: Bono

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Author: Jorge Borges

Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.

Author: Caprice Bourret

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Author: Ray Bradbury

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Author: Les Brown

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Author: Les Brown

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

Author: Elizabeth Browning

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Author: Buddha

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

Author: Carol Burnett

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Author: Samuel Butler

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

Author: John Byrne

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Author: Abraham Cahan

You can plant a dream.

Author: Anne Campbell

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

Author: Mariah Carey

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Author: Dale Carnegie

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

Author: Angela Carter

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

Author: Angela Carter

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

Author: Johnny Cash

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.

Author: Michael Castle

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Author: Willa Cather

It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.

Author: Alex Chilton

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

Author: Stephen Chow

You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment.

Author: Warren Christopher

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

Author: Warren Christopher

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

Author: Emile Cioran

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

Author: Eldridge Cleaver

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

Author: Grover Cleveland

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

Author: William Clinton

I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.

Author: Tom Coburn

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Author: Jean Cocteau

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Author: Paulo Coelho

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Author: Paulo Coelho

A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written.

Author: Edwin Cole

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

Author: Sidonie Colette

I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.

Author: Rita Coolidge

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

Author: Bill Cosby

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

Author: Doug Coupland

I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.

Author: Simon Cowell

It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.

Author: Deborah Cox

As Realtors, you live and breathe the American dream.

Author: Charlie Crist

Don't dream it, be it.

Author: Tim Curry

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

Author: Jamie Curtis

You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream.

Author: Miley Cyrus

If you dream and you believe, you can do it.

Author: Puff Daddy

My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

Author: Evan Dando

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Author: Blythe Danner

It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.

Author: Geena Davis

All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

Author: Taylor Dayne

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Author: James Dean

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.

Author: Morris Dees

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

Author: Don DeLillo

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

Author: Nigel Dennis

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

Author: Bo Derek

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Author: Jacques Derrida

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

Author: Richard DeVos

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

Author: Joan Didion

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Author: Walt Disney

It's a dream part, running around with guns, being an agent.

Author: Lexa Doig

I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.

Author: Thomas Dolby

Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.

Author: Donald Douglas

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

Author: Rita Dove

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

Author: Rachel Dratch

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream.

Author: Julia Dreyfus

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

Author: David Duchovny

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

Author: Robert Duvall

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

Author: Sheena Easton

I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

Author: Alfred Eisenstaedt

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Author: Pliny Elder

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Author: Ralph Emerson

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Author: Eminem

A goal without a date is just a dream.

Author: Milton Erickson

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Author: Gloria Estefan

It's not the size of the dreamer, it's the size of the dream.

Author: Josh Evans

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

Author: Adam Faith

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

Author: Frances Farmer

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

Author: Rainer Fassbinder

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Author: William Faulkner

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Author: William Faulkner

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.

Author: Leslie Fiedler

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.

Author: Colin Firth

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Author: F. Fitzgerald

I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.

Author: Ric Flair

At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.

Author: Mick Fleetwood

Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.

Author: Curt Flood

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Author: Malcolm Forbes

It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.

Author: Richard Ford

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

Author: George Foreman

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.

Author: Lee Forest

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Author: Anatole France

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

Author: Anatole France

It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.

Author: Hans Frank

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Author: James Froude

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Author: Lady Gaga

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

Author: Greta Garbo

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Author: Bill Gates

It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it.

Author: Steven Gerrard

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Author: Khalil Gibran

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Author: Vincent Gogh

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Author: Vincent Gogh

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

Author: Whoopi Goldberg

When we can't dream any longer we die.

Author: Emma Goldman

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

Author: Carlos Gortari

You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

Author: Larry Hagman

Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.

Author: Laurell Hamilton

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

Author: Oscar Hammerstein

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

Author: Oscar Hammerstein II

Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

Author: E. Harburg

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

Author: David Hasselhoff

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

Author: John Hawkes

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

Author: Helen Hayes

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Author: Ben Hecht

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.

Author: Brad Henry

My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco.

Author: Eva Herzigova

If you will it, it is no dream.

Author: Theodor Herzl

Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.

Author: James Hetfield

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

Author: Tom Hiddleston

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

Author: Patricia Highsmith

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Author: Napoleon Hill

It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.

Author: Paris Hilton

Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

Author: Ralph Hodgson

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Author: Anthony Hopkins

Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier.

Author: Terrence Howard