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.
~By Tracy Chapman ~
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program.
~By David M. Brown ~
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.'
~By Kevin Costner ~
Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that's just got to be the name. That was in 1975.
~By Graham Russell ~
Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
~By Dan O'Brien ~
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.
~By John McCormack ~
A daydream is an evasion.
~By Thomas Merton ~
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.
~By Claude Nicollier ~
Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
~By Candice Bergen ~
Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
~By E. Y. Harburg ~
I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.
~By Brandon Routh ~
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
~By Robert Fulghum ~
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
~By John Thorn ~
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.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
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.
~By Bo Derek ~
Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.
~By Jane Roberts ~
Being a Victoria's Secret model, which was always my dream.
~By Heidi Klum ~
It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.
~By Gordon Getty ~
I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
~By Mike Tyson ~
I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
~By William H. Macy ~
It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
~By Warren Christopher ~
I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.
~By Milos Forman ~
Dreaming men are haunted men.
~By Stephen Vincent Benet ~
You have to dream dreams to live dreams.
~By Eric Lindros ~
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
~By Elias Canetti ~
If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
~By Billy Idol ~
As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.
~By Melissa Auf der Maur ~
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
~By W. H. Murray ~
That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.
~By Karl Urban ~
I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.
~By Deborah Cox ~
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
~By Rachel Corrie ~
Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.
~By Tony Oliva ~
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
~By Richard Wright ~
I really have the American dream licked.
~By Ted Nugent ~
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
~By John Barrymore ~
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.
~By Mark Victor Hansen ~
Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.
~By Kelly Rowland ~
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.
~By Judy Collins ~
Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.
~By Joy Page ~
The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.
~By Ed Smith ~
Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.
~By Chris Brown ~
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
~By Gian Carlo Menotti ~
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
~By Toni Morrison ~
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
~By Henryk Sienkiewicz ~
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
~By Shania Twain ~
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
~By John Grisham ~
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.
~By Ayumi Hamasaki ~
I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.
~By Mira Nair ~
Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.
~By Thomas Menino ~
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
~By Andrew Wiles ~
It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it.
~By Steven Gerrard ~
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.
~By Walt Disney ~
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
~By James A. Michener ~
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
~By Joseph Addison ~
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.
~By Ahmed Chalabi ~
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.
~By Rachel Griffiths ~
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.
~By Clara Hughes ~
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.
~By Bono ~
I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.
~By Woody Harrelson ~
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
~By William Blake ~
It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
~By Gary Sinise ~
My dream is to eventually open a children's theatre.
~By Moira Kelly ~
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
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.
~By Barbara Kingsolver ~
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.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.
~By Jeffrey Katzenberg ~
I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights.
~By John Hunter ~
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
~By Robert Conklin ~
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.
~By Ed Markey ~
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.
~By Brownie McGhee ~
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
~By James M. Barrie ~
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
~By Les Brown ~
I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
~By Bruce Dickinson ~
Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.
~By Arnold Rothstein ~
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.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
~By Adam Schiff ~
When I walk out on that stage, I just want America to know, that this is what I'm supposed to do. This is my dream.
~By Pia Toscano ~
My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself.
~By Carrie Snodgress ~
I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
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