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 ~
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
~By Umberto Eco ~
I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.
~By Todd Barry ~
Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.
~By Henry Reed ~
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
~By Bill Gates ~
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.
~By Derek Luke ~
Dreams are necessary to life.
~By Anais Nin ~
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
~By Candice Bergen ~
We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.
~By Steve Carell ~
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 ~
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
~By Marsilio Ficino ~
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
~By Rachel Griffiths ~
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
~By Wilma Rudolph ~
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
~By Henry Norris Russell ~
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
~By Ethan A. Hitchcock ~
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
~By Mick Jagger ~
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 ~
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.
~By Leo Burnett ~
Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
~By Pamela Stephenson ~
Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.
~By Arthur Machen ~
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.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
~By Susan Taylor ~
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.
~By Rose Tremain ~
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.
~By James Allen ~
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
~By Brian De Palma ~
Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.
~By Annette Funicello ~
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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 ~
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
~By Les Brown ~
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 ~
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.
~By Louis Aragon ~
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
~By Paracelsus ~
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
~By Carl Jung ~
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
~By Rachel Corrie ~
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
~By Jonas Salk ~
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.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
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 ~
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.
~By Pico Iyer ~
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 Allen ~
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 ~
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 ~
I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
~By Ferdinand Porsche ~
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
~By Aeschylus ~
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
~By Gail Godwin ~
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 ~
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
~By Rene Descartes ~
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
~By Pindar ~
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
I'll see you in my dreams.
~By Gus Kahn ~
Dreams have as much influence as actions.
~By Stephane Mallarme ~
We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.
~By Robin Hayes ~
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 ~
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
~By Man Ray ~
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.
~By Elijah Wood ~
All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
~By Isabel Allende ~
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 ~
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
~By Paracelsus ~
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 ~
There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
~By Paul Bryant ~
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
~By Edgar Cayce ~
In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.
~By Loretta Young ~
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 ~
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 ~
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
~By Tupac Shakur ~
Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.
~By Peter Arno ~
And our dreams are who we are.
~By Barbara Sher ~
My dreams are all follies.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
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 ~
The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.
~By Juliette Lewis ~
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
~By Doris Lessing ~
I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.
~By Robin Yount ~
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
~By Ernst Fischer ~
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
~By Otto Dix ~
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 ~
I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
~By Jessica Lange ~
Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.
~By Leon Redbone ~
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 ~
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
~By Tim Berners Lee ~
No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
~By Forest Whitaker ~
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 ~
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 ~
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
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