Dreams Quotes

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.

My dreams are all follies.

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.

You can plant a dream.

If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

I tell people 'America's Got Talent' is the best summer job you could have - you get to watch people strive for their dreams all summer long. So when you see me rooting for these people or dancing on the side of the stage, that's what I'd be doing if I was watching this show at home!

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.

My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

Boys from my generation all love Jim Carrey! But you know, just being in his house with him and pitching jokes that he would act out, literally felt like the dreams that I had, so it was amazing.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason.

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.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

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.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.

It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

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.