Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.
~By Steve Winwood ~
For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.
~By Pedro Calderon de la Barca ~
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
~By Walter Scott ~
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.
~By Emily Bronte ~
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
~By Isaac Hayes ~
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.
~By Ruth Handler ~
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.
~By James Lane Allen ~
I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
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 ~
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
~By Elias Canetti ~
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
~By Christopher Reeve ~
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
~By Marsha Norman ~
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
~By Kim Elizabeth ~
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 ~
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
~By Carl Perkins ~
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
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 ~
I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.
~By Kenny Cunningham ~
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
~By Anais Nin ~
Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
~By Kevin Costner ~
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
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 ~
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 ~
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
~By Susan Sontag ~
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.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.
~By Henry Reed ~
My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
~By John Astin ~
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
~By Paul Gauguin ~
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.
~By Judd Nelson ~
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 ~
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.
~By Joel McHale ~
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
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.
~By Mike Farrell ~
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
~By Mary Webb ~
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 ~
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
~By Henry Timrod ~
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.
~By Jackie Collins ~
I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
~By Liza Minelli ~
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
~By Carl Jung ~
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
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 ~
Never let your dreams go away.
~By Mike Piazza ~
There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.
~By John S. Herrington ~
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.
~By Cleveland Abbe ~
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
~By Henry Reed ~
You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.
~By James Blunt ~
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
~By Pope John XXIII ~
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 ~
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
~By Napolean Hill ~
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
~By Louis Gerstner ~
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 ~
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 ~
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
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 ~
Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
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 ~
As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.
~By Lucas Grabeel ~
There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
~By John Agyekum Kufuor ~
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
~By Les Brown ~
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
I'll see you in my dreams.
~By Gus Kahn ~
American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.
~By Pico Iyer ~
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
~By Bob Dylan ~
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
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 ~
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
~By Giotto di Bondone ~
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 ~
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 ~
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.
~By Sarah Hughes ~
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.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
~By Djuna Barnes ~
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 ~
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 ~
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
~By Robert A. M. Stern ~
Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.
~By Paul Reiser ~
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
~By Walt Disney ~
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
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.
~By Mark Burnett ~
My dreams are all follies.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
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