If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
- Adyashanti
Alone because love was
one of those feelings that you could never have control of. And she needed
to be in control. She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was
to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what
it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud.
- Cecelia Ahern
She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud. Having to take care of her sister's child had sent her love away and there had been no one since. She had learned not to lose control of her feelings again.
- Cecelia Ahern
It's [your Personal Legend] what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.
- Paulo Coelho
At that point in their lives, everything is clear an everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But , as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.
- Paulo Coelho
Graduates leave university and can't find a job. Old people reach retirement and have almost nothing to live on. Grown-ups have no time to dream, struggling from nine to five to support their families and pay for their children's education, always bumping up against the thing we all know as harsh reality.
- Paulo Coelho
The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.
- Paulo Coelho
That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.
- Jodi Picoult
I don't know. But I do know that I'm at the stage of my life where I want forever, not right now.
I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.
And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen.
- Jodi Picoult
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
- Louisa May Alcott
You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.
- Bess Streeter Aldrich
And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either.
We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly:
- Sherman Alexie
You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
- Ernest Hemingway
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
- Alexandre Dumas
He was serious. He didn't want her to hold him close. He didn't want to pretend she was his mother. He didn't want to imagine going home in her car to pet her black labs. He didn't want to dream about sitting down to a home-cooked spaghetti dinner at her kitchen table with her family. Those things would never be his. He watched her eyes switch from hazel to green.
- Debra Anastasia
You must try to forget all you have learned," said the old man. "You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.
- Sherwood Anderson
A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.
- Maya Angelou
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
- Thomas Jefferson
Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated. She deserves a husband who will cherish her for everything she is, and who will protect her from the harsher realities of the world. A husband who will allow her to dream.
-Westcliff
- Lisa Kleypas
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
- Sholem Asch
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
- Gaston Bachelard
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
- Gaston Bachelard
We all possess the need to dream.
- David Copperfield
There is an unknown land full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous.
- Oscar Wilde
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde
To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
- Clive Barker
Twin, I think you should not have dreamt that, for I didn't, and Peter may say we oughtn't to dream differently, being twins, you know.
- James M Barrie
You would have to be half mad to dream me up.
- Lewis Carroll
And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues..
- T A Barron
Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
- Cecilia Bartoli
I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.
- Mario Batali
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
- Albert Camus
We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
- Albert Camus
Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.
- L M Montgomery
Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.
- L M Montgomery
Dare to change the world
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubborness that defies chaos and disillusionment.
- Gioconda Belli
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
- Mario Benedetti
You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.
- Haruki Murakami
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.
- Tim Bernerslee
As I age in the world it will rise and spread,
and be for this place horizon
and orison, the voice of its winds.
I have made myself a dream to dream
of its rising, that has gentled my nights.
Let me desire and wish well the life
these trees may live when I
no longer rise in the mornings
to be pleased with the green of them
shining, and their shadows on the ground,
and the sound of the wind in them.
- Wendell Berry
I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
- Bernardo Bertolucci
To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.
But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.
- Toba Beta
...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?
- R D Blackmore
I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about
- Edward Bloor
You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
- Cory Booker
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.
- William Shakespeare
To sleep perchance to dream
- William Shakespeare
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?
- William Shakespeare
...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.
- William Shakespeare
To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come..
- William Shakespeare
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dreamFor in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life
- William Shakespeare
And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.
- Anthony Bourdain
To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
- Jean De La Bruyere
when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming
the village idiot.
I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the
happy idiot
able to get food easily
...and easy sympathy,
a planned confusion of not too much love or effort.
some would claim that I have succeeded.
- Charles Bukowski
If you want something done, you'll have to dream it yourself.
- Corey Aaron Burkes
Once a day allow yourself the freedom to dream..
- Albert Einstein
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification. (Terence sent me this quote the other day. A good battle cry, I believe... and one I wholeheartedly respect.)
- Italo Calvino
Well, goodnight. Feel free to dream about me naked and scream all you want. I'll sleep right through it.
- Chelsea M Cameron
...how easy it would be to dream one's life out in some cleft in the world.
- Willa Cather
I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.
- Roberto Cavalli
Nothing can be more painful than the cry of the word which gave us the inspiration to dream of love.
- Sorin Cerin
Dream delivers us to dream and there is no end to illusion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We don't sleep to sleep, dammit, any more than we eat to eat. We sleep to dream. We're amphibians. We live in two elements and we need both.
Edward Nesbit
- Lindsay Clarke
But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.
- Kinky Friedman
It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all
- Bernard Kelvin Clive
The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.
- Terry Pratchett
A sight to dream of, not to tell!
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men rarely manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
- Robert A Heinlein
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts.
- Joseph Conrad
We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
- Edgar Allan Poe
It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
- Virginia Woolf
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
- Virginia Woolf
I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.
- Jamie Lee Curtis
Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality.
- Santosh Kalwar
My dream, is to dream, a dream.
- Santosh Kalwar
There was a brief moment of weightlesssness: a balancing point between air and earth, dirt and heaven. How strange, I thought, how like the moment between sleeping and falling when everything is beautifully surreal and nothing is corporeal. How like floating towards completion. But as often happens in that time between existing in the world and fading into dreams, this moment over the edge ended with the ruthless jerk back to awareness.
- Andrew Davidson
If the world stops spinning, slowing to a crawl. I will continue to dream of you. Until, I no longer dream at all.
- Jessica De La Davies
if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true
- Meindert Dejong
Sometimes I would walk with a sense of pain, sometimes with pleasure. If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have to dream of her at night.
- Graham Greene
Yet there have been and still are mathematicians and philosophers who doubt whether the whole universe, or to speak more widely, the whole of being, was only created in Euclid's geometry. They even dare to dream that two parallel lines, which according to Euclid can never meet on earth, may meet somewhere in infinity.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!
- Rita Dove
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.
- Sharon M Draper
Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.
- Milan Kundera
Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine--to dream about things that have not happened--is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were not beautiful, they would be quickly forgotten.
- Milan Kundera
Our dreams prove that to imagine-to dream about things that have not happened-is among mankind's deepest needs.
- Milan Kundera
Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were beautiful, they would quickly be forgotten.
- Milan Kundera
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.
- Rikki Ducornet
Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living there is no place like home.
- Henry Van Dyke
He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.
- Dave Eggers
The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.
- Harlan Ellison
So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?
- Ralph Ellison
You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.
- Gloria Estefan
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
- William Faulkner
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
- William Faulkner
Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.
- Nelson Mandela
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, but some, to dream.
- Shirley Jackson
He was so damn perverse, he preferred to dream it than to make it come true.
- Janet Fitch
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
- Victor Hugo
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
- Malcolm Forbes
It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
- Richard Ford
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
- Anatole France
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
- Ralph Richardson
Never be afraid to dream.
- Lady Gaga
What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
- Neil Gaiman
I need to sleep, but fear to dream.
- George R R Martin
I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.
- William H Gass
Oh to Dream.....
To lay with you in meadows,
Baked with the warmth of togetherness.....
- Michelle Geaney
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.
- Uri Geller
The love of her life dissolved into dreams.
- Ellen Hopkins
you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on you perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me." Westley
Enough about my beauty." Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.
- William Goldman
It is a key keeper's right to bestow a copy of his key on anyone he wishes. But this practice - a phenomenal rite - is hardly ever performed. To receive a copy of the key means to have its imprint seared into your hand. Holding that branded replica over the front lock miraculously parts the gates to Dreamland. It works just as effectively as inserting the genuine key. Staggering to think about, isn't it? You might consider clenching your fists when you dream.
- Richelle E Goodrich
We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.
- Francine Du Plessix Gray
The good life is not found in dreams of progress,but in coping with tragic contingencies.We have been reared on religions and philosophies that deny the experience of tragedy.Can we imagine a life that is not founded on the consolations of action?Or are we too lax and coarse even to dream of living without them?
- John Gray
At birth, we emerge from dream soup.
At death, we sink back into dream soup.
In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.
Life is a portage.
- Tom Robbins
Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be still and quiet, of our ability to dream during daylight.
- Mark Haddon
I used to dream big. It seemed like somewhere along the way I had forgotten about that. And gave up.
- Karina Halle
The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.
- Moss Hart
It was possible in this wonderful city for that nameless little boy -for any of its millions- to have a decent chance to scale the walls and achieve what they wished. Wealth, rank or an imposing name counted for nothing. The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.
- Moss Hart
It was him.
He'd traded his coat and tails for jeans and a tight Abercrombie and Fitch tee, but it was him. I would have known him anywhere.
I blinked slowly, believing he was a mirage. A very handsome mirage. But I didn't have the power to dream cute boys into life. When he didn't disappear, part of my heart sang and part of it worried that I'd never be the same again...
Oh, I never would be the same again.
- Gwen Hayes
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.
- Isaac Hayes
I want to dream a dream so wonderful that I'll wake up sorry that it wasn't a memory.
- Robin M Helm
You have to give people something to dream on.
- Jimi Hendrix
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.
- Tom Hiddleston
What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen.
- Alice Hoffman
What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
- Alice Hoffman
You don't have to sleep, you don't have to dream, to have nightmares.
- Mandy Hubbard
I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.
- Heidi Klum
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.
- Clara Hughes
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow.
- Langston Hughes
A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.
- Jim Hunt
If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
- Billy Idol
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
- Michael Jackson
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.
- Kay Redfield Jamison
So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what's been taken from us or what poison we've internalized or how hard we've had to work to expel it
we all get to dream.
- N K Jemisin
Thanks to dreams, in the history of the galaxy the world has been reinvented more often than there are stars.
- Lloyd Jones
I knew the beginning and the end I just had to dream up a convincing middle.
- Miranda July
Back when I was a competitive swimmer, I used to dream of going to the Olympics. But then I changed my mind, once I found out how expensive the tickets are.
- Jarod Kintz
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
- Henry J Kaiser
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
- Abdul Kalam
You must remember how to dream what you already know.
- Lauren Kate
When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.
- Toby Keith
To dream of a magical world is one thing. To be told it exists is quite another.
- Barbara Kloss
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.
- Liza Minnelli
Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.
- Dean Koontz
Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.
- Dean Koontz
We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.
- Stanley Kunitz
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
- Guy Laliberte
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.
- Janet Leigh
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C S Lewis
It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.
- Blanche Lincoln
You have to dream dreams to live dreams.
- Eric Lindros
Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely good enough' to a vision of what is truly great...
...and then to give us the stories of men and women of character who in turn inspire those of us who dare to reach for the truly great within ourselves.
THAT is why you write fiction.
- Holly Lisle
If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury")
- Audre Lorde
The whole point of wishing is not to focus on what you don't have it's to show you what could be. Once you know what you want then you know what to reach for what to dream about. It's how you change things.
- Lisa Mangum
In the night's in their thousands to dream the dreams of a child's imaginings, worlds rich or fearful such as might offer themselves but never the one to be.
- Cormac Mccarthy
perchance to dream
"What are you doing here, Ariel? I would have thought you'd be halfway to Timbuktu."
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- Lisa Mantchev
What are you doing here, Ariel? I would have thought you'd be halfway to Timbuktu.
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- Lisa Mantchev
We are *all* we are, and all in a sense we care to dream we are. And for that matter, anything outlandish, bizarre, is a godsend in this rather stodgy life. It is after all just what the old boy said it's only the impossible that's credible; whatever credible may mean..
- Walter De La Mare
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
- Yann Martel
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
- Yann Martel
I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!
- Ricky Martin
...a man's ability to dream is the most sincere form of ambition he has in his arsenal, and the only true glimmer of one's self one has. And if one is to ever lose that ability, it's the same as losing one's self altogether. To reacquire this ability, to gain a new sense of 'self', one must first die...only then can he be reborn, redefined, and ultimately rediscovered.
- Dave Matthes
America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.
- Rick Mears
I used to dream about him all the time," Sunny whispered to me. "Every night. I kept hoping the Seekers would find him; I missed him so much...When I saw him, I thought it was the old dream again.
- Stephenie Meyer
I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to escape boredom, but because I wanted to *dream*. Maybe, if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her.
- Stephenie Meyer
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said the purpose of books was to permit us to exercise that faculty. Art, he said, was a controlled madness... He said books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.
- Steven Millhauser
It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.
- Denene Millner
You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.
- Liza Minelli
I used to dream, and I used to vow;
I wouldn't dream of it now.
- Morrissey
I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town
I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes
And they all fall down.
((Sleeping to Dream))
- Jason Mraz
Justin, please, you're annoying the nice man."
Justin blinked at the dumbstruck object of his attention as the breeze puffed a lock of shiny dark hair across the man's brow. "Nice man, please tell me your name so I know who to dream about tonight.
- Jet Mykles
I love to walk through snow, to climb mountains, to smell the fresh air and I love to dream about flying. Soaring through the air, watching the earth from above, feeling the wind in my face and touching the clouds would be an amazing experience.
- Oliver Neubert
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
- Simone Weil
You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
- Christopher Nolan
I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.
- Peggy Noonan
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
- Indra Nooyi
Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
- Conor Oberst
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
- Conor Oberst
You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
- Ben Okri
It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.
- Fuyumi Ono
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
- Roy Orbison
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
- Dolly Parton
Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
- Randy Pausch
Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.
- Neil Peart
I have cultivated several personalities within myself. I constantly cultivate personalities. Each of my dreams, immediately after I dream it, is incarnated into another person, who then goes on to dream it, and I stop.
To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.
- Fernando Pessoa
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.
- Fernando Pessoa
I've dreamed a lot. I'm tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.
- Fernando Pessoa
The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.
- Christopher Pike
If hope is the dream of mankind awake...then let's give all of humanity much to dream of!
- Timothy Pina
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
- Luigi Pirandello
You know the irony of life is that you have like this big dream to get where you wanna be. But once you get there you start to dream about where you came from. I guess that's the part of the circle of our lives, like the hands of a clock going round. If only we could wind them back and return to a time where the dream began. It's all too soon that's all we'll be is a dream in someone's mind.
- Insane Clown Posse
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
- Marcel Proust
Some mornings they awake and can believe that they traverse an Eden, unbearably fair in the Dawn, squandering all its Beauty, day after day unseen, bearing them fruits, presenting them Game, bringing them a fugitive moment of Peace,--how, for days at a time, can they not, dizzy with it, believe themselves pass'd permanently into Dream...?
- Thomas Pynchon
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.
- Anna Quindlen
Because, you see, Godwhatever anyone chooses to call Godis one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.
- Ayn Rand
- John Quincy Adams
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
- Adyashanti
Alone because love was
one of those feelings that you could never have control of. And she needed
to be in control. She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was
to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what
it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud.
- Cecelia Ahern
She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud. Having to take care of her sister's child had sent her love away and there had been no one since. She had learned not to lose control of her feelings again.
- Cecelia Ahern
It's [your Personal Legend] what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.
- Paulo Coelho
At that point in their lives, everything is clear an everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But , as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.
- Paulo Coelho
Graduates leave university and can't find a job. Old people reach retirement and have almost nothing to live on. Grown-ups have no time to dream, struggling from nine to five to support their families and pay for their children's education, always bumping up against the thing we all know as harsh reality.
- Paulo Coelho
The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.
- Paulo Coelho
That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.
- Jodi Picoult
I don't know. But I do know that I'm at the stage of my life where I want forever, not right now.
I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.
And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen.
- Jodi Picoult
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
- Louisa May Alcott
You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.
- Bess Streeter Aldrich
And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either.
We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly:
- Sherman Alexie
You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
- Ernest Hemingway
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
- Alexandre Dumas
He was serious. He didn't want her to hold him close. He didn't want to pretend she was his mother. He didn't want to imagine going home in her car to pet her black labs. He didn't want to dream about sitting down to a home-cooked spaghetti dinner at her kitchen table with her family. Those things would never be his. He watched her eyes switch from hazel to green.
- Debra Anastasia
You must try to forget all you have learned," said the old man. "You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.
- Sherwood Anderson
A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.
- Maya Angelou
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
- Thomas Jefferson
Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated. She deserves a husband who will cherish her for everything she is, and who will protect her from the harsher realities of the world. A husband who will allow her to dream.
-Westcliff
- Lisa Kleypas
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
- Sholem Asch
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
- Gaston Bachelard
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
- Gaston Bachelard
We all possess the need to dream.
- David Copperfield
There is an unknown land full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous.
- Oscar Wilde
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde
To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
- Clive Barker
Twin, I think you should not have dreamt that, for I didn't, and Peter may say we oughtn't to dream differently, being twins, you know.
- James M Barrie
You would have to be half mad to dream me up.
- Lewis Carroll
And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues..
- T A Barron
Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
- Cecilia Bartoli
I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.
- Mario Batali
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
- Albert Camus
We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
- Albert Camus
Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.
- L M Montgomery
Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.
- L M Montgomery
Dare to change the world
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubborness that defies chaos and disillusionment.
- Gioconda Belli
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
- Mario Benedetti
You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.
- Haruki Murakami
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.
- Tim Bernerslee
As I age in the world it will rise and spread,
and be for this place horizon
and orison, the voice of its winds.
I have made myself a dream to dream
of its rising, that has gentled my nights.
Let me desire and wish well the life
these trees may live when I
no longer rise in the mornings
to be pleased with the green of them
shining, and their shadows on the ground,
and the sound of the wind in them.
- Wendell Berry
I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
- Bernardo Bertolucci
To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.
But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.
- Toba Beta
...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?
- R D Blackmore
I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about
- Edward Bloor
You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
- Cory Booker
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.
- William Shakespeare
To sleep perchance to dream
- William Shakespeare
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?
- William Shakespeare
...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.
- William Shakespeare
To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come..
- William Shakespeare
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dreamFor in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life
- William Shakespeare
And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.
- Anthony Bourdain
To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
- Jean De La Bruyere
when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming
the village idiot.
I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the
happy idiot
able to get food easily
...and easy sympathy,
a planned confusion of not too much love or effort.
some would claim that I have succeeded.
- Charles Bukowski
If you want something done, you'll have to dream it yourself.
- Corey Aaron Burkes
Once a day allow yourself the freedom to dream..
- Albert Einstein
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification. (Terence sent me this quote the other day. A good battle cry, I believe... and one I wholeheartedly respect.)
- Italo Calvino
Well, goodnight. Feel free to dream about me naked and scream all you want. I'll sleep right through it.
- Chelsea M Cameron
...how easy it would be to dream one's life out in some cleft in the world.
- Willa Cather
I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.
- Roberto Cavalli
Nothing can be more painful than the cry of the word which gave us the inspiration to dream of love.
- Sorin Cerin
Dream delivers us to dream and there is no end to illusion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We don't sleep to sleep, dammit, any more than we eat to eat. We sleep to dream. We're amphibians. We live in two elements and we need both.
Edward Nesbit
- Lindsay Clarke
But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.
- Kinky Friedman
It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all
- Bernard Kelvin Clive
The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.
- Terry Pratchett
A sight to dream of, not to tell!
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men rarely manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
- Robert A Heinlein
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts.
- Joseph Conrad
We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
- Edgar Allan Poe
It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
- Virginia Woolf
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
- Virginia Woolf
I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.
- Jamie Lee Curtis
Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality.
- Santosh Kalwar
My dream, is to dream, a dream.
- Santosh Kalwar
There was a brief moment of weightlesssness: a balancing point between air and earth, dirt and heaven. How strange, I thought, how like the moment between sleeping and falling when everything is beautifully surreal and nothing is corporeal. How like floating towards completion. But as often happens in that time between existing in the world and fading into dreams, this moment over the edge ended with the ruthless jerk back to awareness.
- Andrew Davidson
If the world stops spinning, slowing to a crawl. I will continue to dream of you. Until, I no longer dream at all.
- Jessica De La Davies
if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true
- Meindert Dejong
Sometimes I would walk with a sense of pain, sometimes with pleasure. If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have to dream of her at night.
- Graham Greene
Yet there have been and still are mathematicians and philosophers who doubt whether the whole universe, or to speak more widely, the whole of being, was only created in Euclid's geometry. They even dare to dream that two parallel lines, which according to Euclid can never meet on earth, may meet somewhere in infinity.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!
- Rita Dove
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.
- Sharon M Draper
Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.
- Milan Kundera
Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine--to dream about things that have not happened--is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were not beautiful, they would be quickly forgotten.
- Milan Kundera
Our dreams prove that to imagine-to dream about things that have not happened-is among mankind's deepest needs.
- Milan Kundera
Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were beautiful, they would quickly be forgotten.
- Milan Kundera
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.
- Rikki Ducornet
Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living there is no place like home.
- Henry Van Dyke
He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.
- Dave Eggers
The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.
- Harlan Ellison
So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?
- Ralph Ellison
You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.
- Gloria Estefan
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
- William Faulkner
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
- William Faulkner
Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.
- Nelson Mandela
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, but some, to dream.
- Shirley Jackson
He was so damn perverse, he preferred to dream it than to make it come true.
- Janet Fitch
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
- Victor Hugo
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
- Malcolm Forbes
It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
- Richard Ford
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
- Anatole France
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
- Ralph Richardson
Never be afraid to dream.
- Lady Gaga
What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
- Neil Gaiman
I need to sleep, but fear to dream.
- George R R Martin
I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.
- William H Gass
Oh to Dream.....
To lay with you in meadows,
Baked with the warmth of togetherness.....
- Michelle Geaney
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.
- Uri Geller
The love of her life dissolved into dreams.
- Ellen Hopkins
you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on you perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me." Westley
Enough about my beauty." Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.
- William Goldman
It is a key keeper's right to bestow a copy of his key on anyone he wishes. But this practice - a phenomenal rite - is hardly ever performed. To receive a copy of the key means to have its imprint seared into your hand. Holding that branded replica over the front lock miraculously parts the gates to Dreamland. It works just as effectively as inserting the genuine key. Staggering to think about, isn't it? You might consider clenching your fists when you dream.
- Richelle E Goodrich
We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.
- Francine Du Plessix Gray
The good life is not found in dreams of progress,but in coping with tragic contingencies.We have been reared on religions and philosophies that deny the experience of tragedy.Can we imagine a life that is not founded on the consolations of action?Or are we too lax and coarse even to dream of living without them?
- John Gray
At birth, we emerge from dream soup.
At death, we sink back into dream soup.
In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.
Life is a portage.
- Tom Robbins
Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be still and quiet, of our ability to dream during daylight.
- Mark Haddon
I used to dream big. It seemed like somewhere along the way I had forgotten about that. And gave up.
- Karina Halle
The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.
- Moss Hart
It was possible in this wonderful city for that nameless little boy -for any of its millions- to have a decent chance to scale the walls and achieve what they wished. Wealth, rank or an imposing name counted for nothing. The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.
- Moss Hart
It was him.
He'd traded his coat and tails for jeans and a tight Abercrombie and Fitch tee, but it was him. I would have known him anywhere.
I blinked slowly, believing he was a mirage. A very handsome mirage. But I didn't have the power to dream cute boys into life. When he didn't disappear, part of my heart sang and part of it worried that I'd never be the same again...
Oh, I never would be the same again.
- Gwen Hayes
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.
- Isaac Hayes
I want to dream a dream so wonderful that I'll wake up sorry that it wasn't a memory.
- Robin M Helm
You have to give people something to dream on.
- Jimi Hendrix
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.
- Tom Hiddleston
What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen.
- Alice Hoffman
What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
- Alice Hoffman
You don't have to sleep, you don't have to dream, to have nightmares.
- Mandy Hubbard
I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.
- Heidi Klum
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.
- Clara Hughes
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow.
- Langston Hughes
A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.
- Jim Hunt
If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
- Billy Idol
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
- Michael Jackson
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.
- Kay Redfield Jamison
So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what's been taken from us or what poison we've internalized or how hard we've had to work to expel it
we all get to dream.
- N K Jemisin
Thanks to dreams, in the history of the galaxy the world has been reinvented more often than there are stars.
- Lloyd Jones
I knew the beginning and the end I just had to dream up a convincing middle.
- Miranda July
Back when I was a competitive swimmer, I used to dream of going to the Olympics. But then I changed my mind, once I found out how expensive the tickets are.
- Jarod Kintz
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
- Henry J Kaiser
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
- Abdul Kalam
You must remember how to dream what you already know.
- Lauren Kate
When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.
- Toby Keith
To dream of a magical world is one thing. To be told it exists is quite another.
- Barbara Kloss
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.
- Liza Minnelli
Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.
- Dean Koontz
Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.
- Dean Koontz
We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.
- Stanley Kunitz
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
- Guy Laliberte
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.
- Janet Leigh
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C S Lewis
It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.
- Blanche Lincoln
You have to dream dreams to live dreams.
- Eric Lindros
Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely good enough' to a vision of what is truly great...
...and then to give us the stories of men and women of character who in turn inspire those of us who dare to reach for the truly great within ourselves.
THAT is why you write fiction.
- Holly Lisle
If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury")
- Audre Lorde
The whole point of wishing is not to focus on what you don't have it's to show you what could be. Once you know what you want then you know what to reach for what to dream about. It's how you change things.
- Lisa Mangum
In the night's in their thousands to dream the dreams of a child's imaginings, worlds rich or fearful such as might offer themselves but never the one to be.
- Cormac Mccarthy
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"What are you doing here, Ariel? I would have thought you'd be halfway to Timbuktu."
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- Lisa Mantchev
What are you doing here, Ariel? I would have thought you'd be halfway to Timbuktu.
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- Lisa Mantchev
We are *all* we are, and all in a sense we care to dream we are. And for that matter, anything outlandish, bizarre, is a godsend in this rather stodgy life. It is after all just what the old boy said it's only the impossible that's credible; whatever credible may mean..
- Walter De La Mare
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
- Yann Martel
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
- Yann Martel
I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!
- Ricky Martin
...a man's ability to dream is the most sincere form of ambition he has in his arsenal, and the only true glimmer of one's self one has. And if one is to ever lose that ability, it's the same as losing one's self altogether. To reacquire this ability, to gain a new sense of 'self', one must first die...only then can he be reborn, redefined, and ultimately rediscovered.
- Dave Matthes
America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.
- Rick Mears
I used to dream about him all the time," Sunny whispered to me. "Every night. I kept hoping the Seekers would find him; I missed him so much...When I saw him, I thought it was the old dream again.
- Stephenie Meyer
I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to escape boredom, but because I wanted to *dream*. Maybe, if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her.
- Stephenie Meyer
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said the purpose of books was to permit us to exercise that faculty. Art, he said, was a controlled madness... He said books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.
- Steven Millhauser
It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.
- Denene Millner
You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.
- Liza Minelli
I used to dream, and I used to vow;
I wouldn't dream of it now.
- Morrissey
I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town
I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes
And they all fall down.
((Sleeping to Dream))
- Jason Mraz
Justin, please, you're annoying the nice man."
Justin blinked at the dumbstruck object of his attention as the breeze puffed a lock of shiny dark hair across the man's brow. "Nice man, please tell me your name so I know who to dream about tonight.
- Jet Mykles
I love to walk through snow, to climb mountains, to smell the fresh air and I love to dream about flying. Soaring through the air, watching the earth from above, feeling the wind in my face and touching the clouds would be an amazing experience.
- Oliver Neubert
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
- Simone Weil
You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
- Christopher Nolan
I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.
- Peggy Noonan
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
- Indra Nooyi
Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
- Conor Oberst
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
- Conor Oberst
You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
- Ben Okri
It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.
- Fuyumi Ono
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
- Roy Orbison
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
- Dolly Parton
Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
- Randy Pausch
Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.
- Neil Peart
I have cultivated several personalities within myself. I constantly cultivate personalities. Each of my dreams, immediately after I dream it, is incarnated into another person, who then goes on to dream it, and I stop.
To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.
- Fernando Pessoa
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.
- Fernando Pessoa
I've dreamed a lot. I'm tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.
- Fernando Pessoa
The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.
- Christopher Pike
If hope is the dream of mankind awake...then let's give all of humanity much to dream of!
- Timothy Pina
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
- Luigi Pirandello
You know the irony of life is that you have like this big dream to get where you wanna be. But once you get there you start to dream about where you came from. I guess that's the part of the circle of our lives, like the hands of a clock going round. If only we could wind them back and return to a time where the dream began. It's all too soon that's all we'll be is a dream in someone's mind.
- Insane Clown Posse
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
- Marcel Proust
Some mornings they awake and can believe that they traverse an Eden, unbearably fair in the Dawn, squandering all its Beauty, day after day unseen, bearing them fruits, presenting them Game, bringing them a fugitive moment of Peace,--how, for days at a time, can they not, dizzy with it, believe themselves pass'd permanently into Dream...?
- Thomas Pynchon
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.
- Anna Quindlen
Because, you see, Godwhatever anyone chooses to call Godis one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.
- Ayn Rand
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