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Quotes About Dreaming

I grew up dreaming of being a Hurricane and I'm so proud of playing the number of games I have for them.
~ Beauden Barrett
We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and how a craft can be master of an element. I saw the alchemy of perspective reduce my world, and all my other life, to grains in a cup. I learned to watch, to put my trust in other hands than mine. And I learned to wander. I learned what every dreaming child needs to know -- that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.
~ Beryl Markham
When we dream with God, we become the masterpieces of His imagination.
~ Bill Johnson
I was never the class clown or put on shows at home. I never thought of acting as something I could do with my life. When I was a kid, I used to run around wrapped in toilet paper so I could be the Mummy. But that wasn't a sign that I was dreaming of being an actor. I was just an odd child.
~ Paul Giamatti
Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.
~ Haruki Murakami
As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's preconscious rather than conscious. Ideas fall into your head, and the book writes you, rather than the other way around.
~ David Ignatius
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
~ Joan Didion
When you're writing a screenplay, it's like you're dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost like a memory before you make it.
~ Greta Gerwig
In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.
~ Steven Knight
We are the next thing the Time Dragon is dreaming, and nothing to be done about it.
~ Gregory Maguire
His life had gone by without adventures, without passions, almost without hopes. The facility of dreaming, planted in every man, had never blossomed in the narrow bed of his ambitions.
~ Guy de Maupassant
As long as necessity is socially dreamed, dreaming will remain a social necessity. The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.
~ Guy Debord
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Nella sua dimora a R'lyeh il morto Cthulhu attende sognando
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn." Legrasse had one point in advance of Professor Webb, for several among his mongrel prisoners had repeated to him what older celebrants had told them the words meant. This text, as given, ran something like this: "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.
~ Anthony Hamilton
Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
~ B. J. Novak
I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
~ John Cheever
Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.
~ Wayne Dyer
I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.
~ Stephen Bayley
I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.
~ Zach Condon
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.
~ Irving Berlin
We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.
~ Sheri S. Tepper