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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

'If you want anything to actually change or to move ahead in your life you actually have to do it yourself, you canīt sit there and wait for somebody or talk about what you might want, you know, you should actually keep dreams and desires inside and let them burn a little bit, and then they might come true'
Russell Crowe

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her. I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.
Amy Jo Johnson

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

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. [On how to be a successful athlete]
Gail Devers

Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of 'second meaning' of the terms applied.
Wolfgang Pauli

The chambers in the house of dreams
Are fed with so divine an air, That
Time's hoary wings grow young therein,
And they who walk there are most fair.
Francis Thompson

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together
Eugene Ionesco

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

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

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

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

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfilment
Jean Baudrillard

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

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

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

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Amos Bronson Alcott

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl

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

He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith.
Mark Burnett

If dreams can be portents of what is to come, then I had my fair share if forewarning before my life was stolen away.
Charles De Lint

A mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child. [Hmm isn't any mother actually interested in the child irrespective of dreams and ambitions!]
James Hillman

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

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my true time,
Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?
William Morris

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.
Steven Callahan

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Henry David Thoreau

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

Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.
Fabio Capello

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream
Nathaniel Hawthorne

God wills, Man dreams, the Work is born.
Fernando Pessoa

It is the logic of our times, No subject for immortal verse- That we who lived by honest dreams Defend the bad against the worse. ('Where are the War Poets?')
C Day-Lewis

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

This country has helped define me and make my dreams come true [on the US]
Jim Carrey

'You can always dream, and your dreams will come true, but you have to make them come true.'
Michael Jackson

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

Everyday was an adventure on the set of California Dreams. You never know what the guys will be up to next. Usually it's something stupid!
Kelly Packard

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

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect
Franz Kafka

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

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

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin

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

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W B Yeats

Unpinned even by rudimentary notions of time and space, dreams float or flash by, leaving in their wake trails of unease, hopes and fears.
Stephen Brook

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

I come from a generation where the dreams and aspirations of a whole lot of young men were sacrificed at the altar of getting some kind of menial job.
Bill Dixon

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.
Bill Clinton

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Henry David Thoreau

Follow your dreams, because you wouldn't want it so bad if you couldn't have it. The universe gives you these dreams because you can have them. If you're willing to work for it, you can have anything you want.
Michael Flatley

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
Djuna Barnes



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