Dream Quotes

"Isolation is a self-defeating dream."

Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican Statesman

Dream, Isolation, Self

10

"I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis."

Mira Nair, Indian Director

Dream, Nostalgia

10

"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, Welsh Author

Dream, Dreams, Direction, May, Nonsense

5

"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, Welsh Actor

Dream, Childhood

5

"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."

Manuel Puig, Argentinian Author

Dream, Dreams, Cinema, Reality

5

"The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred."

Alvaro Uribe Velez, Colombian Statesman

Dream, Hatred, Nation

5

"As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be."

Ron Francis, Canadian Coach

Dream, Day, Fun, Growingup

5

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese Poet

Dream, Dreams, Visions

4

"Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps."

Peter Abrahams, South African Novelist

Dream, Magic

4

"I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer."

Ivor Novello, Welsh Musician

Dream, Dreams, Career

4

"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, Argentinian Writer

Dream, Dreams, Poetry, Play

4

"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, Haitian Author

Dream, Dreams, People, Growingup, Obstacles

4

"When we can't dream any longer we die."

Emma Goldman, Lithuanian Activist

Dream,

4

"For even in dreams a good deed is not lost."

Pedro Calderon, Spanish Dramatist

Dream, Dreams, Deed

3

"At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again."

King Hussein, Jordanian Royalty

Dream, End

3

"You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones."

Ben Okri, Nigerian Poet

Dream, Kids

3

"We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of."

Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgian Statesman

Dream,

3

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Dream, Future, Mind, Past

2

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

Dream, Dreams, People, Old

2

"The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him."

Garry Kasparov, Azerbaijani Celebrity

Dream, President

2

"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, Italian Director

Dream, Dreams, Life, Religion, America

1

"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, American Athlete

Dream, Dreams, Faith, Work, Belief

1

"The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done."

Edward Young, English Poet

Dream, Future

1

"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, American Designer

Dream, Dreams, People, Money, Class

1

"It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales."

Jon Kyl, American Politician

Dream, Example

1

"I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren."

Tom Coburn, American Politician

Dream, Children, Promises

1

"I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

Dream, Dreams, Thoughts, Result

1

"A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

Dream, Goal

1

"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto."

W. Clement Stone, American Businessman

Dream, Dreams, Goals, Will

1

"When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face."

Sue Wicks, American Athlete

Dream, Girls, Living, Smile

1

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Dream, Wisdom, End

1

"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans."

Max Beerbohm, English Actor

Dream, Dreams, American, Americans, Listening

1

"College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families."

Barbara Mikulski, American Politician

Dream, Financial, College

1

"Did anyone ever have a boring dream?"

Ralph Hodgson, English Poet

Dream,

1

"Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs."

Jack Johnson, American Athlete

Dream, Dreams

1

"Nothing happens unless first we dream."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Dream, First, Nothing

1

"Gene sometimes... well, he has his dream list."

Paul Stanley, American Musician

Dream,

"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, English Novelist

Dream, Dreams, Writers

"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, British Author

Dream, Dreams, Vision, Day, Promise

"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Dream, Dreams, Genius, African, Snow

"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, American Actor

Dream, Dreams, Life, Ability

"Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, British Novelist

Dream, Dreams

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Dream, Dreams, Truth, Idleness

"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, American Actress

Dream, Dreams, Mother, Father, Future

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

James Anthony Froude, English Historian

Dream, Character

"I can't believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it's actually real. It's hard to believe sometimes."

Carrie Underwood, American Musician

Dream, Now

"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

Joyce A. Myers, American Businessman

Dream,

"You can plant a dream."

Anne Campbell, English Politician

Dream,

"Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails."

Dirk Benedict, American Actor

Dream, Actors, Famous, Solution

"But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true."

Milton Bradley, American Inventor

Dream, Dreams, Now

"Isolation is a self-defeating dream."

10

"I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis."

10

"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."

5

"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."

5

"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."

5

"The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred."

5

"As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be."

5

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."

4

"Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps."

4

"I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer."

4

"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."

4

"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."

4

"When we can't dream any longer we die."

4

"For even in dreams a good deed is not lost."

3

"At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again."

3

"You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones."

3

"We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of."

3

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

2

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."

2

"The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him."

2

"In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams."

1

"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."

1

"The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done."

1

"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."

1

"It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales."

1

"I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren."

1

"I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams."

1

"A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written."

1

"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto."

1

"When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face."

1

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

1

"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans."

1

"College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families."

1

"Did anyone ever have a boring dream?"

1

"Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs."

1

"Nothing happens unless first we dream."

1

"Gene sometimes... well, he has his dream list."

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"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."

​

"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."

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"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."