Dream famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.
-- Annette Funicello -
I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.
-- Annie Besant -
All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead
-- Annie Lennox -
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 -
The human drama is reaching its denouement. The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin to crumble and people of the heart sing out a new truth. Many voices are joining the chorus, many feet are walking the path, many minds are dreaming possibilities for a magnificent future. For beneath the crises that are looming at every level of civilization, the global heart is awakening, beating out the rhythm of a new and glorious dance, calling us to a better way of living.
-- Anodea Judith -
"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""
-- Ansel Adams -
When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong Kong. Or you just lose track. [It's] one of the reasons I'm staying in hotels that I know I've stayed in before, and they don't look like other hotels.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.
-- Anthony Daniels -
Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.
-- Anthony Doerr -
You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
-- Anthony Hamilton -
I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
You don't dream so that you can remember it. You dream to achieve it.
-- Anthony Kim -
Dreaming is a journey through wonder, surprise, and freedom.
-- Anthony Lawlor -
I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head. I know seven words of Latin. I have a little magic and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, can fight dirty but not fair, and once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic. I am a luxury, and in that sense, necessary.
-- Anthony Minghella -
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
-- Antisthenes -
Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.
-- Antoine Fuqua -
Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit! Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
-- Antonin Artaud -
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
-- Antonin Artaud -
These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of life beyond which the paths of eternity extend. It is truly an eternal separation. They slip their knives into this center where I feel myself a man, they sever those vital ties which bind me to the dream of my lucid reality.
-- Antonin Artaud -
Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.
-- Antonin Sertillanges -
My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.
-- Antonio Machado -
Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
-- Antonio Machado -
Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence
-- Antonio Machado -
Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us.
-- Antonio Machado -
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.
-- Antony Beevor -
Achievers are Believers in Commitments and Dreams. But, the great achievers believe in their own and others' good CHARACTER too.
-- Anuj -
The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desire is what we aspire to build for ourselves.
-- Anuj -
Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.
-- Anzia Yezierska -
If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.
-- Anzia Yezierska -
'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest to have believed; Ashamed and angry to be undeceived!
-- Aphra Behn -
Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?
-- Apolo Ohno -
If the time comes and your dream doesn't seem worth it, then maybe it was the wrong dream.
-- Aprilynne Pike -
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.
-- Aravind Adiga -
The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, a deep content, another friend.
-- Arch Ward -
There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.
-- Archie Panjabi -
But as far as dream roles - I know this is so expected of me, but I would to play Elphaba in 'Wicked' on Broadway. I have a lot of dream roles, but that's like my main one because of the vocal track. I love belting high things!
-- Ariana Grande -
It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.
-- Ariel Sharon -
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
-- Aristophanes -
In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most men are more than a little wistful at its demise. A man dreams of home as a haven and his wife as a romantic, fragrant creature whose most important goal in life is making him comfortable.
-- Arlene Dahl -
And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild -
Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.
-- Armand Nassery -
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 -
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
-- Arna Bontemps -
We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.
-- Arne Duncan -
I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.
-- Arne Glimcher -
When I see young men and old women come out of the closet and face being called faggots and dykes and pariahs and betrayers of the family dream, then I am honored to be gay because I belong to a people who are proud.
-- Arnie Kantrowitz -
I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of California and stand in Madison Square Garden to speak on behalf of the President of the United States that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Here's what you must do. It's pretty simple, really, but I didn't say easy. It's what sets those who succeed apart from those who don't: You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
-- Arnold Weinstock -
I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
-- Arsenio Hall -
The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview.
-- Arshile Gorky -
Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.
-- Arshile Gorky -
While no road is ever straight, dedication and persistence will always lead you to your dreams.
-- Arte Moreno -
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle of locomotives pounding through the night, by the caravans leaving on the Golden Road to Samarkand, by quinqueremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir . . . Our grandchildren will likewise have their inspiration-among the equatorial stars. They will be able to look up at the night sky and watch the stately procession of the Ports of Earth-the strange new harbors where the ships of space make their planetfalls and their departures.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy which, it is known exists abundantly in all matter; we sometimes dream that man will one day learn how to release it and use it for his service. The store is well nigh inexhaustible, if only it could be tapped. There is sufficient in the Sun to maintain its output of heat for 15 billion years.
-- Arthur Eddington -
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
-- Arthur Erickson -
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
-- Arthur Golden -
My dreams kept me trying when I could have quit.
-- Arthur L. Williams, Jr. -
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
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 -
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 -
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 -
We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.
-- Arthur Machen -
In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls.
-- Arthur Middleton -
In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.
-- Arthur Miller -
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
-- Arthur Miller -
I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.
-- Arthur Miller -
Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.
-- Arthur Miller -
Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.
-- Arthur Miller -
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out,
-- Arthur Miller -
Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.
-- Arthur Miller -
Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.
-- Arthur Miller -
Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.
-- Arthur Moeller van den Bruck -
The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So many writers talk about libraries setting them on their magical paths, it's almost a groaner. But we know it's true. Wander through the stacks and you can feel the dreams, the unique worlds bubbling within each volume. The magic enters you as if by osmosis. On the Web, you may feel clever, lucky and driven to download--but rarely inspired to dream and to write.
-- Arthur Plotnik -
I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that, love, beauty, everything else goes out the window. All they have left is cold disdain; that's what marriages live on nowadays. Sometimes I see women who ought to be happy, with whom I could have found companionship, already swallowed up by brutes with as much feeling as an old log....
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
-- Arthur Rimbaud