Dreams Quotes

‘The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.’ – Walt Disney

‘A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.’ – Colin Powell

‘Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.’ – Jesse Owens

‘Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.’ – James Dean

‘To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.’ – Anatole France

‘Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.’ – Tupac Shakur

‘You have to dream before your dreams can come true.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.’ – Mike Tyson

‘All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.’ – T. E. Lawrence

‘Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.’ – Langston Hughes

‘I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?’ – Zhuangzi

‘The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.’ – Paul Valery

‘I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’, and hook up with them later.’ – Mitch Hedberg

‘A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.’ – Yoko Ono

‘The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

‘A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘Nothing happens unless first we dream.’ – Carl Sandburg

‘So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.’ – Christopher Reeve

‘Sleep is the best meditation.’ – Dalai Lama

‘Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.’ – Edgar Cayce

‘A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.’ – John Barrymore

‘Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.’ – Janet Jackson

‘Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Do all you can to make your dreams come true.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.’ – Usher

‘Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true? – Oscar Hammerstein II’ – Oscar Hammerstein II

‘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

‘When you have a dream that you can’t let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you’re willing to do that.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.’ – Joy Page

‘To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.’ – Walter Scott

‘I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘Saddle your dreams before you ride em.’ – Mary Webb

‘Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre

‘Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.’ – Joseph Campbell

‘Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.’ – Eugene Ionesco

‘We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.’ – Katie Holmes

‘Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘When you cease to dream you cease to live.’ – Malcolm Forbes

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

‘God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘The more you can dream, the more you can do.’ – Michael Korda

‘We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.’ – Novalis

‘Man is a genius when he is dreaming.’ – Akira Kurosawa

‘He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.’ – Douglas Adams

‘It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘Dream in a pragmatic way.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.’ – Jim Valvano

‘Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.’ – Jack Kerouac

‘Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.’ – Grover Cleveland

‘I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.’ – Michael Bloomberg

‘Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.’ – John Locke

‘I am a dreamer. Seriously, I’m living on another planet.’ – Eva Green

‘I know how men in exile feed on dreams.’ – Aeschylus

‘You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.’ – Herb Brooks

‘Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.’ – Paul Wellstone

‘I don’t use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.’ – M. C. Escher

‘Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.’ – Charles Lindbergh

‘My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.’ – Mary Shelley

‘Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.’ – Margaret Fuller

‘The interpretation of dreams is a great art.’ – Paracelsus

‘The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.’ – George Santayana

‘You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.’ – Billy Wilder

‘Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.’ – Valentina Tereshkova

‘When we can’t dream any longer we die.’ – Emma Goldman

‘I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.’ – Rene Descartes

‘A daydream is an evasion.’ – Thomas Merton

‘You can plant a dream.’ – Anne Campbell

‘Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.’ – Jerry B. Jenkins

‘I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.’ – Brian Schweitzer

‘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.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.’ – Carl Jung

‘I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory.’ – Andre Breton

‘Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.’ – Anais Nin

‘The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.’ – Charley Pride

‘If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.’ – Les Brown

‘Night is the mother of counsels.’ – George Herbert

‘Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?’ – Joan Didion

‘All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.’ – Elias Canetti

‘Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.’ – Paracelsus

‘Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.’ – Jane Roberts

‘One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.’ – E. V. Lucas

‘That’s what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.’ – Joseph Barbera

‘I’ve always said that one night, I’m going to find myself in some field somewhere, I’m standing on grass, and it’s raining, and I’m with the person I love, and I know I’m at the very point I’ve been dreaming of getting to.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.’ – Florence King

‘Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as ’tis today.’ – Lope de Vega

‘Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.’ – Langston Hughes

‘Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.’ – John Locke

‘I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.’ – Bill Watterson

‘Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.’ – Zhuangzi

‘Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.’ – Donald G. Mitchell

‘I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.’ – Alfred Eisenstaedt

‘Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Dreaming men are haunted men.’ – Stephen Vincent Benet

‘Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.’ – Herbert Kaufman

‘Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.’ – Amos Bronson Alcott

‘Everybody’s a dreamer.’ – John Lithgow

‘All men of action are dreamers.’ – James Huneker

‘It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.’ – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

‘In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.’ – Luigi Pirandello

‘Dreams are necessary to life.’ – Anais Nin

‘Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.’ – Gene Cernan

‘Dreams are a scientific fact.’ – Robyn Hitchcock

‘The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Dreams are the touchstones of our character.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.’ – Amy Lowell

‘Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.’ – Jim Bakker

‘We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.’ – Lenny Wilkens

‘I’ll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don’t, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that’s nowhere land.’ – Gary Busey

‘I was a great dreamer of day dreams.’ – Abraham Cahan

‘Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.’ – Olive Schreiner

‘I tell people I’m too stupid to know what’s impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.’ – Debi Thomas

‘Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.’ – Baltasar Gracian

‘People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in ’em as food.’ – Dorothy Gilman

‘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.’ – Pope John XXIII

‘Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is.’ – Lisa

‘Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.’ – Carl Jung

‘Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.’ – Ashley Smith

‘Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.’ – Gail Devers

‘I’ve always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.’ – Britney Spears

‘The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘Always dream big, and don’t let anyone limit your dreams because the possibilities are endless.’ – Coco Gauff

‘A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.’ – David Bailey

‘The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.’ – Kalpana Chawla

‘We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.’ – Emmitt Smith

‘Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.’ – LL Cool J

‘Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.’ – Phillip Sweet

‘I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘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.’ – Lady Gaga

‘Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.’ – Les Brown

‘Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up.’ – Rachel Corrie

‘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.’ – Wilma Rudolph

‘Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.’ – Jonas Salk

‘Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly.’ – Dan Pena

‘If you dream of becoming an eagle, you follow your dreams and not the words of a bunch of chickens.’ – Penny Johnson Jerald

‘Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘I feel as though, if you’re able to control your dreams, you have more power and control over your mind, like you could reach more areas of your mind. Therefore, I feel like it creates the ability for you to achieve more things in reality.’ – Juice Wrld

‘Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.’ – Ben Carson

‘My bedroom is my favorite chill out zone, where after a hectic day, I sign off to land in my dreams.’ – Sudha Chandran

‘Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.’ – Anais Nin

‘Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.’ – Travis Bradberry

‘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.’ – James Allen

‘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.’ – J. G. Ballard

‘Do what you love and go after your dreams. Don’t regret it. Don’t hesitate.’ – Jackson Wang

‘Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.’ – P. V. Sindhu

‘Thankfully, dreams can change. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.’ – Stephen Colbert

‘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.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.’ – Donovan Bailey

‘I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.’ – Ferdinand Porsche

‘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?’ – John Lennon

‘I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams. Follow them, never give up, that’s the most important thing. If you believe you can get there, then one day you will.’ – Joao Moutinho

‘I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.’ – Frida Kahlo

‘I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.’ – Katie Ledecky

‘The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

‘Keep true to the dreams of your youth.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.’ – John Wooden

‘A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.’ – Suzy Kassem

‘A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.’ – Herb Caen

‘Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘Men are the dreams of a shadow.’ – Pindar

‘The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.’ – Edward Kennedy

‘I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.’ – Ralph Lauren

‘When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left? – Jim Carrey’ – Jim Carrey

‘Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.’ – Debby Boone

‘Everyone loves a comeback story, and everyone loves the underdog as well. I kind of feel like I’ve been the underdog. Hopefully that inspires people to not give up on themselves and their lives and not give up on their dreams.’ – James Arthur

‘When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.’ – Tecumseh

‘Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.’ – Sasha Cohen

‘It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.’ – Vin Diesel

‘There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.’ – Bear Bryant

‘I would say don’t take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We’re very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, ‘Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets – it works!” – Bo Burnham

‘Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.’ – Joe Montana

‘I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.’ – J. Cole

‘The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.’ – Fidel Castro

‘Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.’ – Chris Brown

‘Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.’ – James M. Barrie

‘In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.’ – Harriet Tubman

‘The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘To become a great player, you’ve got to show real dedication and commitment to football, and you’ve got to be very humble and hard-working. And, above all, you’ve got to fight to make your dreams come true.’ – Sergio Ramos

‘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.’ – Dexter Gordon

‘It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.’ – J. K. Rowling

‘Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’ – William Shakespeare

‘I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.’ – Edward Moore

‘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.’ – James Cameron

‘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.’ – Charlotte Bronte

‘Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don’t do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.’ – John H. Johnson

‘You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.’ – Mark Victor Hansen

‘What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.’ – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

‘Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?’ – Tim Burton

‘Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?’ – Jon Bon Jovi

‘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.’ – Loretta Young

‘Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.’ – Ryunosuke Satoro

‘I just wish people would realize that anything’s possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try.’ – Terry Fox

‘I am just a girl chasing her dreams and having an amazing adventure.’ – Madeline Stuart

‘To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.’ – Giorgio de Chirico

‘The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘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.’ – Samuel Butler

‘Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.’ – Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

‘We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.’ – Laurie Colwin

‘Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.’ – Lindsey Vonn

‘Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.’ – Katori Hall

‘Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.’ – Marsha Norman

‘We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.’ – Tabatha Coffey

‘I chased my dreams. In the end, find what gets you excited and chase it.’ – Guion Bluford

‘Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘When you focus on your dreams, great things happen.’ – Rudy Ruettiger

‘We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.’ – Jeremy Irons

‘Pursue your dreams but have a backup plan.’ – Kane

‘I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it’s music, take it seriously.’ – Enrique Iglesias

‘Go out and chase your dreams no matter how crazy it looks.’ – Shanice Williams

‘Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.’ – Dave Matthews

‘Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.’ – Paul Gauguin

‘When you follow your dreams, you encourage other people to follow theirs.’ – Nafessa Williams

‘I feel like dreams are always a little tricky, you know? But if you just push through the struggles and the hard times, it’ll be so worth it in the end because you will be able to get to your dreams.’ – Chloe Kim

‘Don’t let your dreams be dreams.’ – Jack Johnson

‘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.’ – Bill Gates

‘I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.’ – Bob Dylan

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

‘Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.’ – Mick Jagger

‘We didn’t know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.’ – Ruth Handler

‘It really is never too late, it really is never too early to figure out your goals and dreams and what you love.’ – Garrett McNamara

‘Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see… Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No – we will not do that.’ – Elijah Cummings

‘Keep God first, chase your dreams, and everything will pay off.’ – Jacob Latimore

‘We dream of having a clean house – but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don’t have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.’ – Marcus Buckingham

‘Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.’ – Neil Gaiman

‘To wear dreams on one’s feet is to begin to give a reality to one’s dreams.’ – Roger Vivier

‘Don’t fall in love too fast. You think you know their dreams, but you just know their plans. Plans come from the head, but dreams come from the heart.’ – Jay Shetty

‘Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?’ – Havelock Ellis

‘When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.’ – Greg Anderson

‘You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you’re putting out there, if it’s received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it’s not received, great, I respect you for not.’ – Octavia Spencer

‘I’m a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams, and in the absolute necessity of a support structure.’ – Julie Payette

‘You have to keep going and pursue your dreams.’ – Joey King

‘I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.’ – Kevin Hart

‘If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.’ – Alice Walker

‘Growing up, my dad was ‘get a real job, don’t go pursuing your dreams, that’s how you become homeless.’ So, do I pick my family or do I pick my own happiness, and how much does my own happiness depend on my family?’ – Jimmy O. Yang

‘Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.’ – Sylvia Mathews Burwell

‘Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people’s lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.’ – Debbie Ford

‘You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.’ – Marlee Matlin

‘If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.’ – Jocko Willink

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

‘I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘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.’ – Salvador Dali

‘You can’t break my spirit, it’s my dreams you take.’ – James Blunt

‘Life is short. You’ve got to live your dreams.’ – Tiffany Darwish

‘There’s nothing as exciting as a comeback – seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.’ – Rachel Griffiths

‘But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.’ – Joshua Chamberlain

‘We are built to be happy, strong and healthy. I fear not to live. We have everything to live up to our dreams. You have everything to achieve that, and in a very short period of time you can get all the tools to manifest who you want to be.’ – Wim Hof

‘It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.’ – Benjamin E. Mays

‘Of all our dreams today there is none more important – or so hard to realise – than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.’ – Lester B. Pearson

‘I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.’ – Emily Bronte

‘Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.’ – Federico Fellini

‘Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.’ – Kristi Yamaguchi

‘An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.’ – Emil Zatopek

‘Every team dreams of playing the Champions League final – Porto just as much as Real Madrid.’ – Pepe

‘We are in a world where globalization, which is an ideology, has forgotten and put aside the people, the people’s interests, aspirations, and dreams.’ – Marine Le Pen

‘If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.’ – Booker T. Washington

‘I would like to say every moment counts for you, so make the time that you spend for your dreams a very special moment, make sure that you do something that you’ll be happy with when you go back and look at yourself.’ – Jennie

‘The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you’re talking about building a house, you’re talking about dreams.’ – Robert A. M. Stern

‘Sometimes good stories are created while documenting dreams.’ – Ruskin Bond

‘I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.’ – Claudette Colvin

‘Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.’ – Myles Munroe

‘A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.’ – Robert Kraft

‘I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.’ – Taylor Swift

‘It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.’ – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

‘Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.’ – Wallace Stevens

‘Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.’ – Jawaharlal Nehru

‘When your dreams include service to others – accomplishing something that contributes to others – it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.’ – Jack Canfield

‘A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.’ – Dolly Parton

‘Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.’ – Arna Bontemps

‘Believe in yourself, go after your dreams, and don’t let anyone put you in a box.’ – Daya

‘I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.’ – Christopher Nolan

‘If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.’ – Adam Duritz

‘Dreams grow if you grow.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.’ – W. Clement Stone

‘Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.’ – Les Brown

‘When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.’ – Jane Goodall

‘Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.’ – Candace Parker

‘I have a long way to go as far as my acting career is concerned. Lots of milestones are to be achieved and dreams to be fulfilled. I would someday want to do playback singing, too, as I am a very passionate singer.’ – Roop Durgapal

‘Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.’ – Paul Watson

‘Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.’ – Tu Youyou

‘I always make my dreams into goals.’ – DJ Khaled

‘Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors – the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.’ – Chief Seattle

‘At a pivotal time in my life, Barack Obama gave me hope that a boy who grew up like me could still achieve the most important of my dreams. For that, I’ll miss him and the example he set.’ – J. D. Vance

‘Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you’ll never know who u will meet in your dreams.’ – Joel Madden

‘I don’t remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.’ – David Lynch

‘You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.’ – Anthony Hamilton

‘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.’ – Bram Stoker

‘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 Berners-Lee

‘High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.’ – Corin Nemec

‘Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.’ – Elijah Wood

‘My dreams are huge, man. I dream all day every day. Do I want to get into restaurants one day? Yeah! Do I want to get into hospitality and have my own hotels? Yeah, I do!’ – Michael B. Jordan

‘There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free – the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.’ – John Roberts

‘Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.’ – Emile Durkheim

‘Don’t let the winds blow your dreams away… or steal your faith in God.’ – Vin Scully

‘This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.’ – Howard Schultz

‘Before dance came into my life, I don’t really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.’ – Misty Copeland

‘You have to have patience, work hard and preserve in order to follow your dreams.’ – Whitney Port

‘Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘If you work hard and enjoy what you are doing and go after your dreams anything is possible.’ – Emma McKeon

‘I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school – no way. And I had no idea I’d be coaching girls. It’s wild.’ – Liang Chow

‘I’m dedicated to finding the girl of my dreams.’ – Travis Kelce

‘I was a business major at the University of Richmond, and after I graduated, I took a job at a corporate ad agency. I had comedic dreams, but I also had a realistic look at what I had to do when I left school: maybe I’m funny, but maybe I’m one of a hundred thousand funny people, you know?’ – Lil Dicky

‘The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.’ – James A. Michener

‘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.’ – Steven Spielberg

‘The road to our dreams has many detours.’ – Kurt Warner

‘Dreams do come true if you work hard and you get your head down.’ – Kyla Reid

‘Everyone has golden years sparsely throughout their life, but good things happen and then good things disappear. But you’ll always have those good times, and when you’re on your deathbed you’ll be able to look back on those times when you were with the girl of your dreams.’ – Daniel Caesar

‘Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.’ – John Updike

‘I’m the product of my parents’ dreams and aspirations.’ – Jensen Huang

‘I want my boys to have an understanding of people’s emotions, their insecurities, people’s distress, and their hopes and dreams.’ – Princess Diana

‘It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.’ – Man Ray

‘When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘There are mothers who sacrifice their dreams for family and feel terrible about it. There are mothers who are career women as well, without being apologetic about it.’ – Neena Gupta

‘A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.’ – Pam Brown

‘It’s just the risk that I take and the sacrifice that I make: Putting myself, my career, my family’s peace of mind on the line just to do right by my fans. It ain’t no gray area: You’re either with that and willing to go out of your way to make people who contribute to your dreams coming true happy or you aren’t.’ – DaBaby

‘Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Never set limits, go after your dreams, don’t be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot – it’s good for you!’ – Paula Radcliffe

‘In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.’ – Hugh Hefner

‘It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.’ – Kumail Nanjiani

‘No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.’ – Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

‘Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.’ – Giotto di Bondone

‘I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don’t like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.’ – Rani Mukerji

‘If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.’ – Romain Rolland

‘We all have so much more power to make our dreams a reality – and love life along the way – than we think we do!’ – Rachele Brooke Smith

‘If you get too big for your boots, if you’ve got big dreams, you’re gonna get them broken or shattered.’ – Malcolm Young

‘I do not have bad days. I don’t wake up in the morning and think that I’m going to get AIDS. I don’t dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I’d be giving in to the negativity.’ – Magic Johnson

‘Just follow your dreams and be patient.’ – Angelique Kerber

‘Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence’s biography on him, ‘Hold on to Your Dreams,’ one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.’ – Arca

‘In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.’ – Douglas MacArthur

‘I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don’t accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.’ – Alan Turing

‘I don’t like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.’ – Jean Paul Gaultier

‘Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.’ – Black Elk

‘If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.’ – Bad Bunny

‘Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.’ – Alphonse Karr

‘Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘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.’ – Otto Dix

‘Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true.’ – Robert Lepage

‘I would like to instill in people just to work hard. As long as they keep at it, their dreams will happen.’ – Misty May-Treanor

‘I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It’s not always so perfect like that.’ – Patrick Dempsey

‘Swimming is a life-saving skill, so just the fact that the sport that I love can give so much back to other people – and inspire them to join something that they never thought they could do or go after their dreams – is something that is really special to me.’ – Simone Manuel

‘There is a reason they called it chasing your dreams and not walking after them.’ – Shannon Sharpe

‘A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.’ – Cameron Sinclair

‘People’s real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you’re not sure what you really want or what you even really need.’ – Tracy Chapman

‘I’ve got big, big dreams for the future.’ – Margot Robbie

‘You’ll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.’ – Jay Weatherill

‘Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘Ideas are all around you – everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.’ – Bruce Coville

‘The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.’ – John Tesh

‘Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis

‘Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.’ – Queen Latifah

‘The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.’ – Ralph Marston

‘Education is not a tool for development – individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.’ – Nita Ambani

‘I’ll see you in my dreams.’ – Gus Kahn

‘Dreams are illusions, and we can’t let go of them because we would be dead.’ – David Copperfield

‘The inner confidence in knowing who you are, believing in your dreams, and following your heart, is what make you radiate from within.’ – Heart Evangelista

‘I have some big dreams. I really want my work to be worldwide and for a lot of people to hear it, just because I have a lot to say.’ – Tate McRae

‘Learn from your dreams what you lack.’ – W. H. Auden

‘Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.’ – Rudolph Valentino

‘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.’ – Gerard De Nerval

‘I was born in 1988, one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and people of my generation were taught that utopian dreams are dangerous.’ – Rutger Bregman

‘Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.’ – Kim Yuna

‘As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality – to create a future that never existed before.’ – Clara Shih

‘Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.’ – Charles Baudelaire

‘As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I’ve been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.’ – John Travolta

‘I would certainly encourage young people to pursue their dreams. It isn’t always an easy path, but it’s worth going after. And I figure if a farmer’s daughter from Iowa can become an astronaut, you can be just about anything you want to be.’ – Peggy Whitson

‘Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.’ – Jean Genet

‘Genius is an African who dreams up snow.’ – Vladimir Nabokov

‘Your dreams are your dreams. Sometimes they don’t make sense to other people.’ – Lindsey Horan

‘When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.’ – Chris Kyle

‘You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.’ – Denis Waitley

‘My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘Big dreams create the magic that stir men’s souls to greatness.’ – Bill McCartney

‘Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.’ – Jean Baudrillard

‘We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.’ – Narendra Modi

‘Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.’ – Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

‘I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.’ – Miguel

‘I have always found the best way to live is to be optimistic and energetic and willing to work hard for my dreams as well as the dreams of others.’ – Homer Hickam

‘Someone once told me… ‘Anh believe in your dreams!’ I always have and always will, and I think that if you follow your dreams in life, you really can live an amazing life.’ – Anh Do

‘Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, ‘If you have a dream, chase it.” – Karl Malone

‘Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.’ – Patrice Motsepe

‘I want to show everyone that if you pursue your dreams, they can come true no matter what. That’s what I want to do.’ – Martin Garrix

‘What I love about America is not necessarily the American Dream but the fact that there’s so much spirit of fighting to continue to dream once the dreams are broken.’ – Chloe Zhao

‘My parents have always encouraged me to follow my dreams and do what makes me happy.’ – Manushi Chhillar

‘Integrity is critical to our lives – and to our dreams of achievement. We must remember that without integrity, nothing else matters and that with integrity, nothing else matters.’ – Jon Huntsman, Sr.

‘You can’t take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different.’ – Kendall Jenner

‘My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can’t take that away from me.’ – Derek Jeter

‘I’ve accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.’ – Joe Jonas

‘I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

‘One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.’ – A. B. Yehoshua

‘Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who’s miserable in it – men and women alike – and anyone who’s suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.’ – Adam Ross

‘It’s cool to see all your dreams come to fruition.’ – Ayesha Curry

‘Beautiful dreams – if the world were more beautiful they would come true – But the world is relentless & cruel – people are – they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.’ – Alfred Stieglitz

‘As a small-town girl, I grew up with big dreams and now, those dreams have become a reality.’ – Tabitha Brown

‘Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We’re dreamers, you see, but we’re also realists, of a sort.’ – William Gibson

”Shake It Up’ definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.’ – Zendaya

‘You see opportunity… Opportunity is like a window: every once in a while, it opens, if you’re ready for that opportunity. So be prepared, work hard, and follow your dreams.’ – Nita Strauss

‘In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.’ – Robert Klein

‘Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.’ – Georg C. Lichtenberg

‘I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.’ – Larry Page

‘I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery – that’s how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.’ – Kim Barnouin

‘I’ve always loved watching movies and pageants. As I grew up, my dreams turned into goals and I started working towards that direction. I took one step at a time and luckily, things worked out in my favour.’ – Srinidhi Shetty

‘I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don’t think that way. I still don’t have a ‘bliss’ to follow. For people like me – I suspect that’s most people – holding out for a ‘dream’ or a ‘passion’ is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That’s hard enough… but it’s enough.’ – Jane Pauley

‘Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.’ – Carrie Fisher

‘I was a small-town boy with big dreams.’ – Ritesh Agarwal

‘Never think you can’t do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even after I started writing it, I was like, ‘Oh my God, how am I gonna write a book?’ Just set your sights high and reach for the stars. Go live your dreams, and never think you can’t.’ – Connor Franta

‘I still refer to myself as a ‘cheerleader’ because I keep encouraging others to have confidence and to use their talents to follow their dreams. It’s been one of the most important reasons for my success and my helping others succeed.’ – Richard M. DeVos

‘Being in the Olympics isn’t the chance for one of us to go out there and win the thing… It’s growing skateboarding, creating more opportunity for kids to be able to fulfill their dreams of being a pro-skater.’ – Nyjah Huston

‘You can’t tell me that dreams don’t come true. My life is proof that they do.’ – Fantasia Barrino

‘I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.’ – Jonas Salk

‘I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don’t try to be like me. Be better than me.’ – Florence Griffith Joyner

‘Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only difference being that when their dreams turn to nightmares, we all lose sleep. There can be no trusting the muttering of any prelate when it comes to money.’ – Howard Jacobson

‘You have to know your identity. It’s the biggest thing in wanting to pursue creative dreams.’ – Lauren Daigle

‘I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.’ – Ed Smith

‘There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don’t come true – that, to me, is what’s beautiful about Los Angeles. It’s full of these people who have moved there to chase these dreams.’ – Damien Chazelle

‘Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn’t exist.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in our lives and has a great career of her own. Same with my father. So I knew it was possible going in to stay closely connected to my children while also chasing big dreams. And it’s given me great perspective.’ – Kerri Walsh Jennings

‘Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.’ – Candice Bergen

‘All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.’ – Lemmy

‘My first tattoo is a French proverb, and it says, ‘Dream your life, live your dreams.” – Ravyn Lenae

‘Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don’t have enough people of a certain group. People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.’ – Liz Truss

‘Dreams don’t have deadlines. I’m thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.’ – LL Cool J

‘My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.’ – Liza Minnelli

‘The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I’ve known. I’m always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.’ – Jeff Buckley

‘Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.’ – Henry Reed

‘The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, ‘What are you talking about?’ Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it’s not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.’ – Joan Jett

‘It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.’ – Spike Lee

‘No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘As long as you pray and believe in your dreams, anything is possible.’ – Andy Ruiz Jr.

‘Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn’t some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.’ – Neil Gorsuch

‘Even coming from small towns, the biggest dreams are possible.’ – Stephanie Labbe

‘I am the underdog, and I want to prove that one can follow one’s dreams despite all the flaws and setbacks.’ – Winnie Harlow

‘For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.’ – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

‘My parent’s divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn’t necessarily have had otherwise.’ – Christina Aguilera

‘The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.’ – Renzo Piano

‘I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.’ – Sergey Brin

‘There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.’ – Barack Obama

‘People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.’ – Max Beerbohm

‘There are a lot of hours and a lot of sacrifices you have to make to achieve your dreams as a tennis player.’ – Ashleigh Barty

‘Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

‘Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.’ – Thomas Middleton

‘We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘I think that humility is key to succeed and conquer your dreams.’ – Thiago Silva

‘Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.’ – Gilda Radner

‘At the end of the day, you’re going to go through obstacles, but with passion, you will be successful, and you will accomplish whatever your dreams are.’ – Brie Bella

‘All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.’ – Amy Lowell

‘You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.’ – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

‘I’m just a normal girl who dreams, who fights for what I believe.’ – Leila Lopes

‘As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.’ – Smokey Robinson

‘People’s dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It’s what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.’ – Leonard Cohen

‘It’s hard because people always say, ‘Follow your dreams,’ but it’s not a perfect world, and things don’t always work out. But you’ve just got to work hard, and you can’t take things for granted.’ – Stephen Colletti

‘The 1890s was perhaps the most Gothic decade ever: ‘Dracula,’ ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘The Time Machine,’ not to mention ‘Heart of Darkness’ and ‘The Interpretation of Dreams,’ were all written between 1890 and 1899.’ – Mark Fisher

‘I’m not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.’ – Jon Stewart

‘Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.’ – Sara Teasdale

‘You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.’ – Channing Tatum

‘One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.’ – Kevin Kwan

‘My mother gave me the discipline to follow my dreams. You know: you can do what you want as long as you put your back into it. Just keep ploughing away.’ – George Clinton

‘She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can’t wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.’ – Jamie Foxx

‘I don’t have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.’ – Ayumi Hamasaki

‘The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.’ – Tupac Shakur

‘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.’ – Kim Elizabeth

‘Everyone has their dreams and their rise and their own version of a fall from grace.’ – Molly Bloom

‘My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.’ – Ingmar Bergman

‘Every player dreams of winning the World Cup, and there are very few who are fortunate enough to actually do it.’ – Carles Puyol

‘Social entrepreneurs come from different backgrounds and are by and large, starved of capital. Such socialpreneurs must have extraordinary passion to follow their dreams.’ – Sudha Murty

‘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?’ – Stephen LaBerge

‘I’m anything but a small-town girl. I have big, big dreams, and I plan on making them happen.’ – Farrah Abraham

‘More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.’ – Gregory David Roberts

‘I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It’s closer to our dreams.’ – Manuel Puig

‘Carrie Underwood was just a small-town Oklahoma girl with big dreams in 2005 when she competed on the fourth season of ‘American Idol.’ She is one of the few true ‘American Idol’ success stories and went on to have incredible career success.’ – Fabrizio Moreira

‘Singing for a documentary that benefits the underprivileged remains one of my biggest dreams.’ – Arijit Singh

‘I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can’t dream about it anymore. It’s easier to settle for less.’ – Cardi B

‘The first ‘D’ is to dream: dream big – not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second ‘D’ is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third ‘D’ is to do. ‘Do’ means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.’ – Kailash Satyarthi

‘It is important to believe in your dreams because if we don’t believe in ourselves, no one will ever believe in us.’ – Wendie Renard

‘For many people, the age of 20 is when they first reach adulthood, and it’s a time full of ideals and dreams. But when I was 20, a lot of misfortune came along. I spent a year in the hospital and couldn’t move, and I was forced to think a lot.’ – Lee Min-ho

‘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.’ – James Allen

‘Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.’ – Miley Cyrus

‘Fight for your dreams and success. This is what has always guided me.’ – Luka Modric

‘Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.’ – Harlan Ellison

‘We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go – letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.’ – Susan Estrich

‘Like my mother, I was always saying, ‘I’ll fix my life one day.’ It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.’ – Liz Murray

‘I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.’ – Allen Tate

‘Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There’s nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.’ – Sherry Argov

‘A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.’ – Joan Lunden

‘When you stop having dreams and ideals – well, you might as well stop altogether.’ – Marian Anderson

‘My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say ‘I’m sorry, but I’ve got to say hello to you,’ and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, ‘Not for me, Bub. I don’t want anything to do with you.” – John Mayer

‘You reach for the stars and you work your butt off to achieve your dreams. If you fall short, you fall short, but you say you gave it your best.’ – Frank Vogel

‘If you trust in yourself and fight for it until the end, your dreams will come true.’ – Lisa

‘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.’ – Walt Disney

‘You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I’m older and wiser and I think I’d make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.’ – Stevie Nicks

’80-percent of ‘Enter the Void’ is a traditional narrative movie. I suppose it’s more similar to ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ or ‘Videodrome’ than it is to ‘Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome’ by Kenneth Anger, which is very experimental. It’s the other 10% of 20% that reminds you of the language and glamour of dreams.’ – Gaspar Noe

‘When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.’ – Zelda Fitzgerald

‘He’s dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.’ – Hugo Pratt

‘I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.’ – Marlee Matlin

‘I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.’ – Maluma

‘I’m a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life – people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a ‘reality.” – Kevin Costner

‘God, that dumping ground of our dreams.’ – Jean Rostand

‘The percentage you’re paying is too high priced While you’re living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he’s made on your dreams.’ – Steve Winwood

‘I can’t remember any dreams in my life. There’s so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.’ – Tim Burton

‘I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.’ – Lana Del Rey

‘My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘The truth is, even those who think Dreams only happen to someone else carry a Dream hidden deep in their heart, just hoping it can come true.’ – Bruce Wilkinson

‘I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.’ – Shakira

‘I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.’ – Joel Osteen

‘It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one’s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.’ – Clive Barker

‘Argentines must know that any commitment I made is an ethical commitment. We are going to build a solidarity and egalitarian Argentina that everybody dreams.’ – Alberto Fernandez

‘Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘In dreams begins responsibility.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.’ – Jackie Gleason

‘I’ve had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother’s had just the opposite.’ – Bill Paxton

‘Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.’ – Suzy Kassem

‘At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.’ – Christopher Reeve

‘To be a footballer was just a dream, and I don’t believe in dreams. I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I’ve never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I’m the same now.’ – Thierry Henry

‘At the end of the day, I think people just need to start listening to their hearts and their gut feelings and their dreams, because that’s what I did.’ – Saroo Brierley

‘There will be many obstacles in the pursuit of your dreams. I had long hours of training, balancing studies and badminton.’ – P. V. Sindhu

‘I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.’ – Curtis Jackson

‘Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.’ – Anais Nin

‘The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.’ – Marya Mannes

‘I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn’t have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.’ – Augusten Burroughs

‘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.’ – Bob Dylan

‘My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.’ – Ram Kapoor

‘To overcome any form of adversity, to not give up, to not give up on yourself, your dreams, to not sequester yourself away from people – that’s the most important thing to do with your life.’ – Paul Dini

‘I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.’ – J. Cole

‘We should go after our dreams and not be apologetic about it, but it’s scary. Whether you want to work or not, you have to do what makes you a fuller person. You have to love yourself.’ – Catherine Reitman

‘My dreams of NHL glory were never fulfilled so I had to settle for politics instead.’ – Pierre Poilievre

‘Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone’s responsibility.’ – Randi Weingarten

‘I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.’ – Vicente Fox

‘Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.’ – Hank Williams

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

‘I’m a big believer in living out your dreams and facing your fears.’ – Brock Lesnar

‘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.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn’t come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they’re going to be tomorrow.’ – Leonard Lauder

‘No person has the right to rain on your dreams.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘Physical fitness is extremely important to me. Only if you are fit will you be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life; you will be able to pursue your dreams, your ambition, you goals, and the things you love.’ – Urvashi Rautela

‘I do want to get into the government and work for finance management divisions and policy management, but they are all long-term dreams and I don’t know when I’ll decide to go for it.’ – Padmapriya Janakiraman

‘A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.’ – Emil Zatopek

‘I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.’ – Brian Blessed

‘To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.’ – John Updike

‘The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.’ – Toyo Ito

‘Everyone has their dreams. I don’t write my dreams down; they just live inside of me.’ – Gracie Gold

‘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.’ – Henry Norris Russell

‘Attitude plays a big part in your life and how you measure your dreams.’ – Rudy Ruettiger

‘But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.’ – Milton Bradley

‘Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.’ – Sylvia Browne

‘The undocumented should pay penalties for the laws they broke by coming here, but we should remember that the founding fathers were willing to break up an empire to achieve their dreams.’ – Mazie Hirono

‘I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.’ – Arsenio Hall

‘They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.’ – Ruth Handler

‘That’s the thing about dreams – they’re ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it’s not a dream.’ – James Lapine

‘I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don’t let anyone tell you you can’t. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.’ – Magic Johnson

‘Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.’ – Adlai Stevenson II

‘I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that’s what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.’ – Roger Clemens

‘Suddenly, we are putting ourselves as the next dinosaurs. It’s rather dark; we have narrowed our dreams. It is time to restore our visions. And so it’s not a nostalgic idea; it is based with this unconscious need to restore a kind of dynamic for tomorrow.’ – Jean-Michel Jarre

‘I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I’m feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.’ – Jeff Mangum

‘I really believe in positive energy and positive thinking and dreams and all that type of stuff.’ – Michael Sorrentino

‘You need to have dreams, you need to go for it, otherwise why would you be a footballer?’ – Virgil van Dijk

‘I’ve always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.’ – Lois Lowry

‘I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.’ – Jennine Cap√≥ Crucet

‘Men don’t come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We’re looking across the room at you, and we don’t care about your hopes and dreams. We don’t care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.’ – Steve Harvey

‘We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions.’ – Anthony Carmona

‘Ideas, dreams, and goals morph as we experience life, so I’m not sure I can look at it like there’s something I haven’t yet achieved since I will always be striving for something more.’ – Jessi Combs

‘For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It’s very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams.’ – Marcel Wanders

‘In our dreams we are always young.’ – Sarah Louise Delany

‘Passion isn’t something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you’re actually doing every day.’ – Marcus Buckingham

‘There’s a good deal in common between the mind’s eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.’ – Ursula K. Le Guin

‘Aren’t we all dreamers? It’s only because man dreamt of flying that we are travelling in planes. Behind all inventions, we see the dreams of people.’ – Ajith Kumar

‘My family doesn’t understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.’ – Cristela Alonzo

‘Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.’ – Samantha Morton

‘We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.’ – Thomas S. Monson

‘I am blessed to have parents, who believed that we should follow our dreams. They have been very supportive.’ – Ishita Dutta

‘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.’ – Carl Perkins

‘Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘It’s not my job to dream your dreams. It’s my job to make your dreams become a reality.’ – Blanche Lincoln

‘I’ve learned not to buy into what other people say. I’ve learned not to put dreams in other people’s hands.’ – Michael Oher

‘People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another’s dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.’ – Henry Reed

‘In terms of being able to renew my nation, to be able to be able to bring back a devastated country, to restore hope to our people, to lift women and to give them a new horizon, a new ambition and new dreams, in respect of all of that, I think we’ve accomplished it, and I feel very good about that.’ – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

‘I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.’ – Jack Butland

‘I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it’s a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.’ – Patrick Roy

‘But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.’ – Christopher Nolan

‘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.’ – Louis Aragon

‘I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.’ – Walter Kirn

‘Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?’ – Carl Jung

‘A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn’t want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.’ – Dennis Rodman

‘I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents’ footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in – that whole cycle. That’s not just a small-town thing. That’s a life thing.’ – Kacey Musgraves

‘My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.’ – Siouxsie Sioux

‘It’s hard to explain where ideas come from. They’re an amalgamation of a million thoughts, dreams and sparks of imagination and it’s difficult to pinpoint the exact moment of conception.’ – Carrie Hope Fletcher

‘The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.’ – Gaston Bachelard

‘Dreams of a Life’ and ‘Fresh Meat’ have left me on such a high. I’m not complaining but I’m not complacent either.’ – Zawe Ashton

‘We are not saving lives. We are selling dreams.’ – Marco Bizzarri

‘They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.’ – Frida Kahlo

‘Never let your dreams go away.’ – Mike Piazza

‘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.’ – Leo Burnett

‘There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.’ – Jonas Salk

‘I’ve lived out many of the dreams I had as a little girl, back when I was riding my pony, mucking stalls, feeding cows, aspiring to finally become a professional jockey and racing in stakes races on a worldwide stage.’ – Chantal Sutherland

‘Be as in touch with your dreams as you can be.’ – Bob Weir

‘My dreams are bigger than money; they’re bigger than fame.’ – Kenny Omega

‘Oftentimes reoccurring dreams are ways a loved one is trying to come through and deliver a message.’ – Tyler Henry

‘I would love to visit Brazil. It’s one place I have not been. One of my dreams is to dance with the Carnival girls. I would love to experience a whole night of partying with them.’ – Shanola Hampton

‘I always dreamt of being famous, and dreams do come true.’ – Sushmita Sen

‘Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.’ – Robert Conklin

‘I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.’ – Wilma Rudolph

‘To win the World Cup in our colours was beyond my dreams and something I will never, ever forget.’ – N’Golo Kante

‘I’m a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams.’ – Julie Payette

‘Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.’ – Siri Hustvedt

”Chewing Gum Dreams’ should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life.’ – Michaela Coel

‘The ‘Star Trek’ future, to me, is where we are headed. Everything is automated, and we are free to pursue our dreams. We are free to pursue lives that aren’t about working and toiling away in dangerous jobs. For example, how many of us would love to be poets, or how many of us would love to be artists?’ – Gray Scott

‘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.’ – Henry Timrod

‘I was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams – to those who can’t be broken.’ – Sylvia Kristel

‘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.’ – Erich Fromm

‘That’s where the theatre of dreams is, over in L.A.; it’s the land of opportunity for actors, and to go over there with a good team behind you and have a part you want to audition for really makes it a joy.’ – Luke Pasqualino

‘I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.’ – Natalie du Toit

‘I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.’ – Liza Minnelli

‘To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists’ careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.’ – Christina Aguilera

‘In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man’s dreams, man’s illness, man’s redemption from the misery of poverty – poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.’ – Salvatore Quasimodo

‘I want to follow my dreams. I want to make sure that I put myself first and accomplish what I need to accomplish.’ – Lil Tjay

‘I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.’ – Tyler Perry

‘New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

‘Books that distribute things… with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.’ – Marsilio Ficino

‘As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.’ – Djimon Hounsou

‘By nature, I’m a very positive person, and because I’m happy in myself, and in my life, and I’ve got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.’ – Kate Winslet

‘I want to support people with the guts to pursue their dreams and provide the financial backing, opportunities and support that will ease their path to success.’ – Touker Suleyman

‘Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests – but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?’ – John Amery

‘One of my dreams is to become a female entrepreneur with other projects not just related to music.’ – Karol G

‘A talent hunt made me who I am today so it’s my turn to help contestants in pursuing their dreams.’ – Dharmendra

‘For me they are no different, reality and dreams.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘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.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘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.’ – Henry Reed

‘Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don’t transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence – as in punishment and deterrence – is needed to rein in our worst instincts.’ – Paul Bloom

‘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.’ – Leon Redbone

‘There are so many dreams that I’d like to follow.’ – AB de Villiers

‘A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.’ – Les Brown

‘Happiness is making your dreams come true.’ – Jourdan Dunn

‘I had dreams, but I didn’t have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.’ – Greta Gerwig

‘As a young man you don’t notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.’ – Otto Dix

‘Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia – the place where all our dreams come true.’ – Roxane Gay

‘Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.’ – Donald G. Mitchell

‘Cyclops, that’s like this primal fear. I had dreams for years that the Cyclops was a small creature living in our huge fish tank at home, and at night, it was going to grow to full size and come after me.’ – Henry Selick

‘Every day is different. You always have to keep the faith and the ambition to realise your dreams.’ – Wissam Ben Yedder

‘Your targets can only be realized on the basis of dreams.’ – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

‘Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.’ – Gary Ryan Blair

‘What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don’t they?’ – Manuel Puig

‘You’ve got to have dreams to keep you going.’ – Steve Waugh

‘A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers. You may want to think of it as a spiritual mailbox.’ – Julia Cameron

‘My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.’ – Derek Jeter

‘Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‘leaders’ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.’ – Maya Angelou

‘The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.’ – Paracelsus

‘Fuel your kids’ dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.’ – Randy Pausch

‘As aspiring athletes, you should never give up on your dreams. Just believe in yourself, and everything will be possible.’ – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

‘I get my stuff from dreams from God.’ – Mike Lindell

‘Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.’ – Julio Cortazar

‘Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.’ – Danica McKellar

‘There are hundreds of stories I’ve heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.’ – Misty Copeland

‘Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.’ – Ralph Marston

‘People fail because they think big, but do not act upon their dreams; I planned my future from the start; I knew what I had to do next.’ – Tanishk Bagchi

‘My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.’ – Mary Shelley

‘I’ve woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I’m listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.’ – Lenny Kravitz

‘I’m like the luckiest girl in the world. I’ve gotten to be a princess, I’ve gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.’ – Amy Adams

‘Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.’ – Ross Perot

‘I am personally an idealist. I was lucky enough to follow my dreams in my own life, so you should definitely follow your dreams.’ – Sal Khan

‘Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘Everyone dreams of playing Wimbledon and winning it. I am glad this dream came true for me so fast in my career. It feels great after so many years of struggle.’ – Sania Mirza

‘Don’t be afraid to admit what your dreams are.’ – Jacqueline Fernandez

‘To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true.’ – Rickey Henderson

‘Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.’ – Wes Craven

‘If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you’ll still be a part of a dream – only it will be someone else’s.’ – Mike Hawkins

‘Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.’ – Werner Herzog

‘Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.’ – Alice Walker

‘There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.’ – John Agyekum Kufuor

‘I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It’s a beautiful place, and I drew on my experiences there when writing ‘The Lake of Dreams.” – Kim Edwards

‘It’s never late to go after your dreams. All it takes is believing and hard work.’ – Vitor Belfort

‘I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams.’ – Guillermo del Toro

‘I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.’ – Man Ray

‘I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.’ – Novak Djokovic

‘I have dreams of working with some of the greatest to ever do it, including Sade, Beyonce, Janet Jackson, Babyface, Smokey Robinson, and Timbaland.’ – Victoria Monet

‘I’m aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.’ – Isabel Allende

‘Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people’s hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ – Douglas Brinkley

‘Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.’ – Kalpana Chawla

‘Society sets us up to be everything but ourselves, but I want to take a moment and say to people, love yourself. Find your purpose. You are unique, and that makes you great. I pursued my dreams. You can do it, too.’ – Karen Civil

‘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

‘A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.’ – Umberto Eco

‘It’s important for people to know what they want, to know who they are, to follow their dreams and be the best versions of themselves.’ – Liu Yifei

‘You go after your dreams no matter how many obstacles. You want to go forward. That’s what I did.’ – Glover Teixeira

‘I have lots of favorites movies. I say this only because it’s a favorite movie because it’s a sport I love. I’m a huge baseball fan. There are movies I like as much as this, but I sort of single this movie out because I’m a baseball nut, and that’s ‘Field of Dreams.” – Rick Santorum

‘Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don’t think you can make your kids’ dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.’ – Billy Crystal

‘For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.’ – Alber Elbaz

‘Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.’ – Tim Walberg

‘Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood. And dreams are the foundation of America.’ – Lupita Nyong’o

‘For me, I just set little goals for myself and stay on that kind of track and surround myself with positive people along with my teammates. I just kind of have my goals and my dreams, and this is something that we’ve all been working for our entire lives, so it is kind of easy to wake up and want to better myself every day towards that goal.’ – Ali Krieger

‘We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.’ – Isaac Newton

‘We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there’s an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.’ – Junot Diaz

‘I’m just so honored that I never gave up and have kept pushing for my dreams to get here.’ – MyKayla Skinner

‘For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.’ – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

‘In my perfect day, I wake up next to the woman of my dreams, and she’s crying tears of joy because she’s so excited about the life we have together. I’m preparing to compete in the 2016 Olympics with U.S.A. Team Handball, so I head to an intense training session with my coach to increase my physical strength and athleticism.’ – Lewis Howes

‘Face life’s obstacles and never give up on your dreams.’ – Rudy Ruettiger

‘Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.’ – Jack Johnson

‘One of Giants of Africa’s fundamental mottos is – Dream Big. We believe that basketball can be used as a tool to educate and develop youth around the world to accomplish their dreams.’ – Masai Ujiri

‘I’ve always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.’ – Damien Chazelle

‘Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.’ – Dario Argento

‘If you don’t have dreams, you don’t have a life.’ – Bryce Harper

‘As a single mom, I want to say that having a child does not have to be a setback. You can still reach your dreams and teach your kids to reach for their dreams.’ – Denise Bidot

‘If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I’m firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.’ – Emmanuel Jal

‘Technically a memoir, ‘The Woman Warrior’ becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.’ – Karen Joy Fowler

‘I think cancer – I’m not an expert or a doctor – but I think cancer is the result of undigested dreams and forcing yourself to do something that is not distinctively you.’ – Noel Edmonds

‘The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.’ – Thomas Dolby

‘It’s not too late, I can still live my dreams.’ – Diana Nyad

‘Good dreams don’t come cheap, you’ve got to pay for them and If you just dream when you’re asleep this is no way for them to come alive… to survive.’ – Harry Chapin

‘Scoring a goal in the NHL is something really special. It’s something every kid dreams of and so did I when I was little.’ – Leon Draisaitl

‘We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.’ – Doris Lessing

‘I love that I dream big and go after my dreams with all I’ve got to give.’ – Asia Kate Dillon

‘There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘Don’t cut corners or compromise to achieve your dreams.’ – Chanda Kochhar

‘Sometimes your dreams come true.’ – Frank Bruno

‘That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful.’ – Xavier Dolan

‘In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought we’d come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.’ – Harvey Gantt

‘The American culture is pursue your own happiness, follow your dreams. The Chinese side is sacrifice everything for your family; it’s all about the group. Those conflicting ideas were always a battle in my head.’ – Jon M. Chu

‘With my charity Big Dreams For Kids, I believe the more you give, the more you receive.’ – Flo Rida

‘I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I’m not so censored when I use dream material.’ – Kathy Acker

‘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.’ – Roger Federer

‘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.’ – Nick Cannon

‘Just really, really believe in what you’re trying to do. Don’t let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.’ – Luke Bryan

‘Dreams that are planned are called frustration.’ – Bill Duke

‘Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.’ – Annette Funicello

‘Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.’ – Shimon Peres

‘Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.’ – J. G. Ballard

‘Literature for me isn’t a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.’ – Antonio Tabucchi

‘Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don’t think we can achieve something beyond what we’re qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?’ – Simon Sinek

‘I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.’ – Anika Noni Rose

‘I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.’ – Aimee Mullins

‘We need to be able to guarantee the safety of all artists and activists for human rights so that it no longer takes extraordinary courage to call for a better world – so that every person with the ability to imagine peace, equality, progress, and justice can express their dreams and hopes without fear.’ – Deeyah Khan

‘Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.’ – Djuna Barnes

‘I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.’ – J. K. Rowling

‘Being an actor is fantastic because you get to live your dreams and all of that, but I always think it’s slightly irritating when you hear from the outside world, and people are like, ‘Yeah, well, if I was an actor, and all I had to do was look good, I could be that ripped, too.” – Charlie Hunnam

‘Dreams sometimes foretell the future.’ – Mickey Hart

‘Revelations are conveyed in a variety of ways, including, for example, dreams, visions, conversations with heavenly messengers, and inspiration. Some revelations are received immediately and intensely; some are recognized gradually and subtly.’ – David A. Bednar

‘I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording ‘Appetite For Destruction’, we all knew.’ – Steven Adler

‘I used to work at a movie theater and sold hams at Honey Baked Ham during the holidays. I sold a ton of hams, and they offered me a regular job there, which I turned down. I feel like anything you do, just do it 100% because then that work ethic will bleed through when it’s time to work on your dreams.’ – Tika Sumpter

‘I would have dreams all the time about me playing in the NFL. Every day I woke up, I said to myself, you know, I’m going to work hard, you know, this day to get to that next level.’ – Michael Oher

‘Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.’ – Amy Heckerling

‘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.’ – James Lane Allen

‘I’m so grateful to God for allowing my dreams to come true. It was worth going through a few tough times, as I am so appreciative for my many, many blessings.’ – Ainsley Earhardt

‘Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn’t speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.’ – Lawrence Welk

‘Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.’ – Zygmunt Bauman

‘As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.’ – Joe Greene

‘I’ve been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I’ve wanted to do a film about them for a long time.’ – Christopher Nolan

‘I feel like I’m making a difference. I feel like putting out a message for young girls to follow your dreams and just work at what you want to do and be yourself.’ – Willow Smith

‘It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.’ – Zora Neale Hurston

‘From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.’ – Paracelsus

‘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.’ – Les Brown

‘There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren’t a lot who get to see them realized.’ – Tyler Perry

‘I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids’ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.’ – Dwayne Johnson

‘We’re not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.’ – Irvin D. Yalom

‘Look for the light. Look for it in everything. Look for it in yourself, in your children, in your job, and in your dreams. Look for it in the food you eat and in the people you surround yourself with.’ – Debbie Ford

‘Follow your dreams. It’s always too early to quit.’ – Rudy Ruettiger

‘It’s nice to have dreams, but when you use borrowed money to achieve them and act as if money grows on trees, you may have a brutal awakening.’ – Maxime Bernier

‘I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.’ – Joseph Heller

‘You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.’ – Ginnifer Goodwin

‘When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that’s where they stay.’ – Libby Houston

‘It’s actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.’ – Catriona Gray

‘I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi – but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I’m doomed to be a writer.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘My story, I feel like it’s amazing, because it shows people no matter where you come from, no matter what your lifestyle is, your dreams could still come true if you believe in yourself and push hard to do what you want to do.’ – Shanice Williams

‘I had very big dreams.’ – Brad Mondo

‘A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one’s own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.’ – Chin-Ning Chu

‘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. Come dream with me.’ – Sharon Draper

‘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.’ – Michael Easton

‘Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.’ – Oscar Niemeyer

‘Mum and Dad had waited 16 years for adoption laws to change in their home state, Tasmania, so that they could apply to the authorities to create the family of their dreams. I am so thankful for their endurance and patience. Who knows what would have happened to me if they hadn’t miraculously appeared when I needed them most?’ – Saroo Brierley

‘Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.’ – Paracelsus

‘As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it’s like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don’t have a chance.’ – Anika Noni Rose

‘I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.’ – Dolly Parton

‘I was part of that group of kids growing up in the ’80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call ‘living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,’ where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.’ – Junot Diaz

‘The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.’ – Stedman Graham

‘One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!’ – Zendaya

‘We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.’ – Max Beerbohm

‘We’re in the business of selling pleasure. We don’t sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.’ – Alain Wertheimer

‘I don’t want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it’s not fun to be a starving artist. But on the other hand, life is short, and if you are burning with a passion to do something, then do it. Work hard, study hard at it, and don’t give up.’ – Marjorie Liu

‘I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it’s like a party.’ – Jean Paul Gaultier

‘Every actor dreams of getting a second chance to reprise a role.’ – Andrew Keenan-Bolger

‘I defected to South Korea in search of freedom of speech and movement. I had longed to put my feet on this soil, even in my dreams.’ – Lee Hyeon-seo

‘You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is what everyone in the world has dreams of when they think about New York. And I thought, ‘My God, I’m in Heaven. I’ll be dancing down Fifth Avenue like Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.” – Frank McCourt

‘Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.’ – Sylvia Browne

”Dreams from My Father’ was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction.’ – David Garrow

‘My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.’ – Derek Jeter

‘The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.’ – Marcel Marceau

‘The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘To the degree we’re not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.’ – Peter McWilliams

‘People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.’ – Norman Cousins

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

‘Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I’d love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.’ – Luigi Pirandello

‘Hollywood has always been a cage… a cage to catch our dreams.’ – John Huston

‘Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.’ – Quintilian

‘Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.’ – Gail Godwin

‘Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘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.’ – Raoul Vaneigem

‘Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one’s rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.’ – Georges Bataille

‘The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.’ – John Berger

‘To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation’s sweetest dreams of itself.’ – Leonard Cohen

‘As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale – my dreams become the substances of my life.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.’ – Ernst Fischer

‘I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.’ – Susan Sontag

‘When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.’ – Stephen Spender

‘The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.’ – Burt Rutan

‘You know, my dad served in the President’s Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people’s lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.’ – Mitt Romney

‘Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.’ – Dave Freudenthal

‘I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what’s so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.’ – Mark Burnett

‘America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.’ – David Brooks

‘And our dreams are who we are.’ – Barbara Sher

‘Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.’ – John Gardner

‘Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It’s like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.’ – Amber Benson

‘I mean, I’m 48 years old and I’ve been through a lot in my life – you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations… We all have dreams.’ – Annie Lennox

‘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

‘I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y’know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn’t even hear my music.’ – Sarah Hughes

‘We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.’ – Billy Barty

‘The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.’ – Juliette Lewis

‘With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.’ – Peter Abrahams

‘I understand it’s my role to realize people’s dreams.’ – Ayumi Hamasaki

‘I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.’ – LL Cool J

‘Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.’ – Jane Roberts

‘We don’t have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.’ – Susan L. Taylor

‘The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.’ – Suzanne Fields

‘People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about – making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.’ – Mary McAleese

‘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 enjoy making solo albums because over the years it’s evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.’ – Bruce Dickinson

‘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.’ – Kazuo Ishiguro

‘My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.’ – Liberty Hyde Bailey

‘Tell me about yourself – your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.’ – Peter Arno

‘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.’ – Sean Combs

‘My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.’ – Amy Jo Johnson

‘If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.’ – Gary Numan

‘The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that’s just got to be the name. That was in 1975.’ – Graham Russell

‘So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn’t allow anybody to take away their dreams.’ – Sally Kirkland

‘In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life – in jeeps – and upset all my dreams.’ – Sergio Leone

‘The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.’ – Ed Markey

‘Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.’ – Albert Claude

‘It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.’ – Rachel Griffiths

‘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.’ – Carrie Underwood

‘We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.’ – David Amram

‘I actually build my dreams around the dancers I’ve got in my company.’ – Graeme Murphy

‘I came at age in the ’60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time – the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy’s campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.’ – David Talbot

‘My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That’s what an actor wants to do.’ – John Astin

‘As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.’ – Michael P. Anderson

‘The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.’ – Elizabeth Bishop

‘Here’s what I see all across this great city – people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.’ – Thomas Menino

‘You can’t censor people’s dreams.’ – Robyn Hitchcock

‘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.’ – Robyn Hitchcock

‘If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.’ – Vin Diesel

‘If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.’ – Jackie Collins

‘I don’t dream songs. I’m more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.’ – Judy Collins

‘I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can’t tell you specifically what they’ve been in the recent months. In the past they’ve been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they’re more dreams of his presence.’ – Judy Collins

‘Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!’ – Felix Bloch

‘Field of Dreams is probably our generation’s It’s A Wonderful Life.’ – Kevin Costner

‘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.’ – Arthur Machen

‘It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams – not by any means of all dreams – moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.’ – Arthur Machen

‘If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.’ – Arthur Machen

‘So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.’ – Danny DeVito

‘My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.’ – Theodore Sturgeon

‘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.’ – Brian De Palma

‘All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them – much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.’ – Alice Hoffman

‘I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers’ works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies – what else is there to write about than love and loss?’ – Alice Hoffman

‘But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.’ – John Thorn

‘But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it’s about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.’ – Radha Mitchell

‘As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.’ – Melissa Auf der Maur

‘If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.’ – Ernst Mach

‘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.’ – Derek Luke

‘Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That’s when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.’ – Derek Luke

‘As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.’ – Terrence Howard

‘It never occurred to me that I’d be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.’ – Camryn Manheim

‘To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams.’ – Rick Yune

‘Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.’ – Armstrong Williams

‘Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.’ – Henry Reed

‘Dreams seem to have a will of their own.’ – Henry Reed

‘I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.’ – Henry Reed

‘It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.’ – Henry Reed

‘People don’t think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.’ – Henry Reed

‘The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it’s best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.’ – Henry Reed

‘In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.’ – Monica Bellucci

‘I’ve succeeded beyond my wildest dreams – financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.’ – Phil Hartman

‘Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It’s not about stabbing each other in the back; it’s about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.’ – Ben Nicholson

‘Sexual dreams aren’t usually about sex.’ – Pamela Stephenson

‘In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money… and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.’ – Laura Miller

‘We control the content of our dreams.’ – Thom Gunn

‘Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.’ – Gustave Meyrink

‘People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.’ – Ralph Lauren

‘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.’ – Victoria Woodhull

‘I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.’ – Martha Reeves

‘I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.’ – Martha Reeves

‘In Dreams… well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.’ – Neil Jordan

‘I’d really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I’m the action guy.’ – Kevin Bacon

‘I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.’ – Ivor Novello

‘I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.’ – Steven Cojocaru

‘But what I’d really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.’ – Robin Yount

‘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.’ – Robin Yount

‘The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.’ – Cleveland Abbe

‘The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.’ – Ella Maillart

‘IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.’ – Edward Carpenter

‘That disturbs people when they know they didn’t have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.’ – Sandra Bernhard

‘Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.’ – Judd Nelson

‘It’s not only imagination, it’s the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.’ – Olivier Martinez

‘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.’ – Robin Hayes

‘I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.’ – JoJo

‘Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.’ – Catherine Deneuve

‘And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn’t take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.’ – Sharon Gless

‘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.’ – Rose Tremain

‘In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.’ – Bianca Jagger

‘Field of Dreams is the only movie – and I saw it in the theater – on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn’t get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.’ – Paul Reiser

‘You have to dream dreams to live dreams.’ – Eric Lindros

‘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.’ – Edwidge Danticat

‘It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it’s getting to the point now where it’s like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I’m done.’ – Picabo Street

‘One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.’ – Picabo Street

‘I’m particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.’ – Todd Barry

‘Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.’ – Paul Wellstone

‘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.’ – Jessica Lange

‘It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people’s hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.’ – Martin Mull

‘Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.’ – Michael Zaslow

‘There’s always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.’ – Tyra Banks

‘Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.’ – Marguerite Gardiner

‘Our theme for this year’s festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.’ – Lucille Roybal-Allard

‘Men act out like they’re horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.’ – Rachel Hunter

‘My dreams are all follies.’ – Taylor Caldwell

‘I’m sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.’ – William H. Macy

‘I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing – dreams of escape.’ – Julie Walters

‘Dreams grow holy put in action.’ – Adelaide Anne Procter

‘In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.’ – Louise Brooks

‘My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.’ – Imelda Marcos

‘The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.’ – Dick Cheney

‘My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.’ – Clay Aiken

‘The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘No man’s brain is so dull, and no man’s eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.’ – Donald G. Mitchell

‘I can think of some things that would be fun, but I’m living my dreams.’ – Mike Farrell

‘Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.’ – Giorgio Armani

‘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.’ – Orlando Bloom

‘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.’ – Lorraine Hansberry

‘We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we’re too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.’ – Herb Brooks

‘In my wildest dreams I never thought – well, I never thought I’d work.’ – Steve Carell

‘Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.’ – Lorenz Hart

‘Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.’ – William Graham Sumner

‘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.’ – Mike Farrell

‘Deep down, I’m a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I’ll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.’ – Renee Zellweger

‘It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.’ – Michael Bloomberg

‘American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.’ – Pico Iyer

‘Dreams have as much influence as actions.’ – Stephane Mallarme

‘Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.’ – John Battelle

‘Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.’ – Kelly Rowland

‘The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.’ – Sebastian Coe

‘Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.’ – Michael Bloomberg

‘As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.’ – Lucas Grabeel

‘I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It’s been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, ‘I can fly!’ Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.’ – Elena Anaya

‘I think L.A.’s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you’re in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it’s a much better city if you’re working as an actor. If you’re not working and you don’t see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.’ – Scott Patterson

‘I’ve been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.’ – Michael Emerson

‘Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Flying dreams mean that you’re doing the right thing with your life.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘I’m following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn’t do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I’m very happy.’ – Nicky Hilton

‘Don’t think your dreams don’t come true, because they do. You’d better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly – one day I am doing the ‘Beaver’ show and I said, ‘This is the show I have always wanted to do.” – Barbara Billingsley

‘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.’ – Forest Whitaker

‘If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.’ – Joel McHale

‘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.’ – Jon Huntsman, Jr.