Quotes on dreams

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.

Author: Cleveland Abbe

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Author: Peter Abrahams

Life is a canvas waiting to be painted with the vibrant colors of your dreams.

Author: Sophia Rivera

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.

Author: Kathy Acker

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Author: Aeschylus

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

Author: Christina Aguilera

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Author: Amos Alcott

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.

Author: Lucille Allard

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Author: James Allen

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Author: James Allen

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?

Author: John Amery

I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

Author: Elena Anaya

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

Author: Greg Anderson

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Author: Marian Anderson

As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.

Author: Michael Anderson

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

Author: Louis Aragon

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.

Author: Giorgio Armani

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

Author: Peter Arno

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Author: W. Auden

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Author: Gaston Bachelard

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

Author: David Bailey

There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.

Author: Tyra Banks

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Author: Pedro Barca

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

Author: Pedro Barca

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Author: Pedro Barca

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Author: Djuna Barnes

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Author: James Barrie

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

Author: Todd Barry

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Author: John Barrymore

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.

Author: John Battelle

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Author: Jean Baudrillard

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

Author: Thomas Beddoes

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Author: Max Beerbohm

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Author: Max Beerbohm

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

Author: Monica Bellucci

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

Author: Amber Benson

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

Author: Candice Bergen

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Author: John Berger

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

Author: Sandra Bernhard

Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'

Author: Barbara Billingsley

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

Author: Elizabeth Bishop

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Author: Gary Blair

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!

Author: Felix Bloch

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

Author: Orlando Bloom

You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.

Author: James Blunt

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Author: Erma Bombeck

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Author: Erma Bombeck

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

Author: Giotto Bondone

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

Author: Arna Bontemps

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

Author: Debby Boone

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Author: Ray Bradbury

But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.

Author: Milton Bradley

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

Author: Sonia Braga

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

Author: Andre Breton

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Author: Charlotte Bronte

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Author: Emily Bronte

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

Author: David Brooks

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

Author: Herb Brooks

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

Author: Herb Brooks

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

Author: Louise Brooks

Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.

Author: Chris Brown

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

Author: Les Brown

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Author: Les Brown

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Author: Les Brown

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Author: Les Brown

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Author: Les Brown

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

Author: Pam Brown

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Author: Elizabeth Browning

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Author: Paul Bryant

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

Author: Leo Burnett

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

Author: Mark Burnett

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Author: Augusten Burroughs

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.

Author: Samuel Butler

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Author: Abraham Cahan

My dreams are all follies.

Author: Taylor Caldwell

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

Author: James Cameron

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Author: Joseph Campbell

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Author: Elias Canetti

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

Author: Nick Cannon

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

Author: Steve Carell

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Author: Edward Carpenter

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Author: Jimmy Carter

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Author: Edgar Cayce

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

Author: Joshua Chamberlain

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.

Author: Harry Chapin

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.

Author: Tracy Chapman

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

Author: Dick Cheney

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

Author: Chin-Ning Chu

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Author: Madonna Ciccone

The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.

Author: Sebastian Coe

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

Author: Leonard Cohen

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

Author: Leonard Cohen

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.

Author: Steven Cojocaru

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

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.

Author: Jackie Collins

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.

Author: Judy Collins

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.

Author: Judy Collins

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.

Author: Robert Conklin

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

Author: Rachel Corrie

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.

Author: Julio Cortazar

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.

Author: John Cory

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

Author: Kevin Costner

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.'

Author: Kevin Costner

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

Author: Doug Coupland

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Author: Doug Coupland

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Author: Norman Cousins

I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

Author: Kenny Cunningham

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.

Author: Miley Cyrus

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

Author: Puff Daddy

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Author: Salvador Dali

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Author: Edwidge Danticat

In our dreams we are always young.

Author: Sarah Delany

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Author: Rene Descartes

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Author: Gail Devers

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.

Author: Danny DeVito

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

Author: Princess Diana

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Author: Walt Disney

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

Author: Walt Disney

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

Author: Walt Disney

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

Author: Otto Dix

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

Author: Thomas Dolby

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

Author: Adam Duritz

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Author: Emile Durkheim

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Author: Bob Dylan

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Author: Umberto Eco

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Author: Umberto Eco

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Author: Marian Edelman

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Author: Black Elk

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Author: Henry Ellis

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

Author: Michael Emerson

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Author: Ralph Emerson

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Author: Ralph Emerson

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

Author: M. Escher

Chase your dreams with passion, for they are the whispers of your soul waiting to be heard.

Author: Sarah Williams

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.

Author: Mike Farrell

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

Author: Mike Farrell

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Author: William Faulkner

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Author: Marsilio Ficino

The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.

Author: Suzanne Fields

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Author: Ernst Fischer

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

Author: Zelda Fitzgerald

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Author: Sigmund Freud

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Author: Sigmund Freud

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Author: Sigmund Freud

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

Author: Dave Freudenthal

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Author: Erich Fromm