The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
~By Anais Nin ~
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
~By Amy Lowell ~
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
~By Black Elk ~
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.
~By Amber Benson ~
When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
~By Friedensreich Hundertwasser ~
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.
~By Clive Barker ~
In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
~By Louise Brooks ~
My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.
~By Christina Ricci ~
For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
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.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
~By Brian Tracy ~
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
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.
~By Brad Henry ~
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
~By Barbara Bush ~
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
~By Ralph Lauren ~
Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score.
~By Ric Ocasek ~
All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
~By Amy Lowell ~
Don't let your dreams be dreams.
~By Jack Johnson ~
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
~By Charles Simmons ~
Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
~By Conor Oberst ~
My dream job has already happened.
~By Kathleen Quinlan ~
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
~By Joseph Heller ~
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 ~
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
~By Michael Jackson ~
I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
~By William H. Macy ~
For hope is but a dream for those that wake.
~By Matthew Prior ~
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
~By Stan Laurel ~
But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.
~By Robin Yount ~
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
~By Harper Lee ~
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.
~By Marc Morial ~
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
~By Ralph Hodgson ~
Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.
~By John H. Johnson ~
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
~By Thomas Lovell Beddoes ~
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.
~By Giorgio de Chirico ~
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
~By Joy Page ~
It may be those who do most, dream most.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
~By Yoko Ono ~
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
~By Robert Hass ~
I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.
~By Tommy Shaw ~
In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.
~By Shelley Duvall ~
I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.
~By Scott Patterson ~
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
I think the American Dream for most people is just survival.
~By Sandy Scholl ~
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.
~By Morris Dees ~
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 ~
I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.
~By Linda Lavin ~
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.
~By Karen Hughes ~
I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
~By Zinedine Zidane ~
Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.
~By Corin Nemec ~
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.
~By Jesse Owens ~
It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.
~By Michael Schenker ~
After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
~By Raquel Welch ~
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
~By Rosalia de Castro ~
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
~By Emma Thompson ~
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
~By Anatole France ~
Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.
~By Bobby Hull ~
I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth.
~By Sarah Michelle Gellar ~
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.
~By James Wolfensohn ~
These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
~By Mortimer Zuckerman ~
I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
~By Bob Dylan ~
I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!
~By George Clooney ~
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
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.
~By Sebastian Coe ~
I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.
~By Edie Falco ~
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
~By Nikita Khrushchev ~
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
~By Bill McCartney ~
I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.
~By Karrie Webb ~
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
~By Bill Cosby ~
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
~By John Locke ~
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
~By Georges Bataille ~
Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.
~By Joe Montana ~
Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
~By Jack Johnson ~
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.
~By Bo Bennett ~
It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
~By Paracelsus ~
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.
~By Brian Williams ~
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.
~By Tom Coburn ~
I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.
~By Sigourney Weaver ~
Isolation is a dream killer.
~By Barbara Sher ~
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.
~By James W. Black ~
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