quotes about Dreamer
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Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
-- Abdul Kalam -
I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.10, Courier Corporation
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Dream a little dream, Or you can live a little dream I'd rather live it 'Cause dreamers always chase But never get it
-- Aesop RockSource : Song: No Regrets
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are dreamers and those who are being dreamed.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
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gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.
-- Anais Nin -
Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.
-- Andy BorowitzSource : FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jun 28, 2012
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Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.
-- Andy Borowitz -
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci -
Back of the job-the dreamer Who's making the dream come true!
-- Berton Braley -
Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two who loved each other so well.
-- Betty SmithSource : Emmet Fox (1946). “Make your life worth while”, Harper San Francisco
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Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer... Then I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers...
-- Big K.R.I.T.Source : FaceBook post by Big K.R.I.T. from Apr 22, 2014
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I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.
-- Bill Veeck -
As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.
-- Brian SelznickSource : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.249, Scholastic
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I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.
-- Brian Selznick -
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
-- Brooks Atkinson -
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A Dreamer is a person whose life is in motion.
-- Bruce Wilkinson -
The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.
-- Carson McCullers -
The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.
-- Che Guevara -
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
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Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
-- D.B.C. Pierre -
The dreamer dies, but never dies the dream
-- Dana BurnetSource : Dana Burnet (1915). “Poems”
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A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
-- Daphne du MaurierSource : Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.9, Hachette UK
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I'm teaching myself to believe in things I don't understand, I don't even know if they're true, but that's what dreamers do.
-- Demi Lovato -
My treasure chest is filled with gold. Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . . Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold . . . Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold . . . Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . . . Poet's gold and artist's gold . . . Gold that can not be bought or sold - Gold.
-- Don Blanding -
Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.
-- Dorothy Fuldheim -
All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.
-- Edie AdamsSource : "Fictional character: Fairy Godmother". TV Special "Cinderella", www.imdb.com. March 31, 1957.
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I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.
-- Eva Green -
Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual ...
-- Evelyn Underhill -
That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.
-- Felicia Day -
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I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action.
-- Frederic Henry Hedge -
Remember that life is short and death is long.
-- Fritz Scholder -
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
-- Gaston Bachelard -
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
-- George Santayana -
Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.
-- George Trumbull LaddSource : George Trumbull Ladd (1895). “Philosophy of mind”, p.141, Рипол Классик
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Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
-- Guy Finley -
For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...
-- H. P. LovecraftSource : H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1518, eBookIt.com
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You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
-- Herb Brooks -
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
-- Herbert KaufmanSource : Herbert Kaufman (1910). “The Winning Fight”
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I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.
-- Hugo Weaving -
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To lovers and dreamers and anyone who hasn’t truly experienced either.
-- J.A. Redmerski -
I might dream, but I am no dreamer.
-- Jack AbramoffSource : "Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist". Book by Jack Abramoff, www.politico.com. November 3, 2011.
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All men of action are dreamers.
-- James HunekerSource : James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”
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The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.
-- Jane Roberts -
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Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly
-- Jeffrey EugenidesSource : Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan
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Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
-- Jerry B. JenkinsSource : FaceBook post by Jerry B. Jenkins from Feb 20, 2015
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Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
-- Jim BakkerSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Faith is all that dreamers need to see into the future.
-- Jim StovallSource : Jim Stovall (2010). “Today's the Day!”, p.43, David C Cook
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Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
-- Jim Valvano -
The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.
-- Joanna Hoffman -
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
-- John Charles Polanyi -
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They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.
-- Johnny Vegas -
Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.
-- Jon MeachamSource : Jon Meacham (2012). “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power”, p.20, Random House
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Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also for undocumented workers of all ages and backgrounds who contribute to our economic security and prosperity.
-- Jose Antonio Vargas -
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Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.
-- Judith Thurman -
I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
-- Kara LindsaySource : "DIVA TALK: Chatting With Newsies Star Kara Lindsay". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 30, 2011.
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All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.
-- Kate BushSource : Song: Nocturn, Album: Aerial, 2005
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It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.
-- Katherine Applegate -
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We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.
-- Katherine Cecil ThurstonSource : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.63, tredition
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Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer
-- Kim CarnesSource : Song: Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer
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Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.
-- Lennox LewisSource : FaceBook post by Lennox Lewis from Aug 18, 2012
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Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.
-- Leslie Marmon Silko -
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
-- Man RaySource : Man Ray, J. Paul Getty Museum (1998). “Man Ray: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.8, Getty Publications
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If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers... February is for doers -
-- Marc Parent -
Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.
-- Marco Rubio -
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.
-- Marie Curie -
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Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers.
-- Mark Gorman -
If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue!
-- Mark Gorman -
The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
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Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher!
-- Mary Doria Russell -
I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
-- Matt SmithSource : "Fictional character: The Doctor (Ganger)". "Doctor Who" The Almost People, May 28, 2011.
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Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.
-- Maya Angelou -
Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?
-- Michael Ende -
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I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.
-- Mikhail Lermontov -
We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.
-- Milan Kundera -
It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is the worst possible place, the most corrupting place, for the human soul. And just as there is no escape from the world, which follows us into the very heart of the desert, so the actor cannot escape the theatre. And the actor who is a dreamer need not. All of us can only strive to remain uncontaminated. In the world we must be unworldly, in the theatre the actor must be untheatrical.
-- Minnie Maddern Fiske -
The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer...
-- Moncure D. Conway -
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Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.
-- Napoleon Hill -
It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
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The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer.
-- Nolan Bushnell -
Because of Obama ... DREAMers who are American in every way except on paper no longer live under the shadow of deportation.
-- Nydia VelazquezSource : Nydia Velazquez's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.
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Savers like spenders, worriers like avoiders and planners marry dreamers.
-- Olivia Mellan -
The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.
-- Paul Hawken -
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Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers
-- Paul WellstoneSource : Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.8, Random House
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Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.
-- Paulo Coelho -
We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.
-- Pete Wentz -
People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world.
-- Peter KuznickSource : "Oliver Stone on War, George Bush, Ken Burns, and His New Show". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. November 14, 2012.
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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
-- Ray Bradbury -
I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.
-- Richard GereSource : "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.
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Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.
-- Rick Pitino -