Quotes About Dreams

At night Ward tossed in self-loathing: how, he wondered, can you want something so badly, finally get it, and yet wind up discontented? And how can it happen so quickly? When he finally could sink into sleep his dreams boiled with faceless devils; he woke--gasping--with their talons on his windpipe.

Insecure people don't get threatened by dreams; they get threatened by dreamers who move forward into those dreams.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.

But that's how it is when you're a kid, isn't it? You have all these dreams and, unless you're lucky, they never amount to anything.

I thought most kids would give their right arm to go into outer space," Shulsky added unhelpfully. "Haven't you ever dreamt about becoming an astronaut?" "No," Alex said. "I always wanted to be a train driver.

She really was the genie to my Aladdin, although as far as I could recall, I had never rubbed the magic lamp.

Never Forget Where You Came From. Keep Your Feet On The Ground..But Still Reach For The Stars.

Nagpur to Kanyakumari and Kashmir, future Olympic medallists can come from anywhere. It is the passion that drives you, not the city, provided you get enough facilities.

To me India is not much different from Pakistan. The problems are the same: poverty, hunger, abuse of human rights. The dreams are the same too - of providing for our families and giving the best education to our children.

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.

I have the craziest dreams when I'm digesting a massive amount. It feels so real, it's psychedelic.

I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.

I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

I'd never been published when I was young.

I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when I began to write and first published, I couldn't call myself a writer.

Having my novels published is a dream come true.

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.