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Dream Quotes


"To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!"


"What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?"


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



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


"My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings."


"The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity."


"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."


"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."


"The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."


"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."


"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."


"I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from."


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


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


"Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream."


"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."


"Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible."


"The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience."


"The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid."


"And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you."


"If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is."


"I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare."
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