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?
~By Stephen LaBerge ~
In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.
~By Neil Jordan ~
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
~By Ernst Mach ~
Some people are so afraid of getting to know themselves that they live and define their lives through the dreams and goals of others.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
~By Paracelsus ~
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 ~
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
~By Princess Diana ~
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Dreams seem to have a will of their own.
~By Henry Reed ~
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
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 ~
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.
~By Uri Geller ~
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
~By Marsha Norman ~
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
~By Anais Nin ~
Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.
~By Peter Arno ~
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 ~
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
~By Logan Pearsall Smith ~
I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.
~By Nicky Hilton ~
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 ~
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
~By Tupac Shakur ~
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?
~By John Lennon ~
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
~By Norman Cousins ~
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.
~By Otto Dix ~
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Dreams grow holy put in action.
~By Adelaide Anne Procter ~
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 ~
Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.
~By Jane Roberts ~
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.
~By Miley Cyrus ~
This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
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.
~By Pedro Calderon de la Barca ~
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
~By John Barrymore ~
In dreams begins responsibility.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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.
~By Joan Lunden ~
I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.
~By Henry Reed ~
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.
~By Michael Emerson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Gerard De Nerval ~
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
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 ~
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
~By Manuel Puig ~
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
~By Rachel Corrie ~
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
~By Ella Maillart ~
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
~By Eugene Ionesco ~
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
~By Isabel Allende ~
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
~By E. V. Lucas ~
My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.
~By Amy Jo Johnson ~
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
~By Henry Reed ~
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.
~By Peter Abrahams ~
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
~By Lorraine Hansberry ~
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~By Ashley Smith ~
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
~By Manuel Puig ~
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
~By Allen Tate ~
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
~By Arthur Machen ~
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.
~By Stevie Nicks ~
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
~By Frida Kahlo ~
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.
~By Leonard Cohen ~
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
~By W. H. Auden ~
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.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
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.
~By James Cameron ~
It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
~By Sergio Leone ~
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.
~By T. E. Lawrence ~
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
~By Les Brown ~
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
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.
~By Puff Daddy ~
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.
~By Hugo Pratt ~
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
~By Dexter Gordon ~
I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.
~By Mike Farrell ~
Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
~By Bram Stoker ~
Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.
~By Joel Madden ~
Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.
~By Elijah Wood ~
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.
~By John Battelle ~
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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.
~By Judy Collins ~
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
~By David Bailey ~
I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.
~By Roger Clemens ~
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.
~By Robert Klein ~
The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.
~By Henry Reed ~
I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.
~By Ayumi Hamasaki ~
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
~By Arna Bontemps ~
And our dreams are who we are.
~By Barbara Sher ~
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
~By M. C. Escher ~
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