Quotes About Dreams

Nightmares never last. One day you wake up and they're gone

When you're in something that's successful, the subconscious fantasies you have about what your life could be start bursting through the surface -- I'll tell that son of a bitch when I get successful enough, or I'll buy this particular thing, or now they'll love me. It creates an enormous amount of expectant hopes and dreams, and it's terrible. Terrible.

You make all these decisions in your life, and they all seem like the right decisions at the time. You think you're doing the right thing. And it's only later that you realize, no, they were exactly the wrong decisions, and instead of bringing you what you wanted, they only carried you even farther away from your dreams. And somehow you've got to live with that.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams.

She had seen this man before, in a daydream. In a nightmare.

We're all capable of more, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Keep chasing those dreams, through hard work you'll eventually catch them.

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad

I'm hoping the prince prevailed and lived happily ever after.

According to the medical literature, I was a textbook case for posttraumatic stress disorder. During the day I can control my symptoms, at least to a degree, but not at night. That's when all hell breaks loose in my dreams.

Nina drifted in and out of consciousness. She didn't really want to awaken. As awful as her dreams had been, she had a sense that the world would look even worse with her eyes open.

Keep your notebooks stocked with dreams, ideas for characters, odd thoughts (someday you may invent odd characters to think them), overheard dialogue, observations, and memories. Write "nibble notes" (consisting of key words, idea kernels) during the day, instead of counting on a nighttime writing repast that might not happen (too tired, too much

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

Chiku felt something very close to vertigo, a dizzy sort of perception that she had only just begun to grasp the vertical depth of a very long life, the sense of how far it plumbed the past. A life that went down like a lift-shaft, each floor containing an ordinary life's worth of love and loss, adventure and disappointment, dreams and ruins, joy and sorrow.

Personally, I love music, as it's my first love, and if I ever act, it has to be something close to music. That's when I will feel great about doing it.

My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in our lives and has a great career of her own. Same with my father. So I knew it was possible going in to stay closely connected to my children while also chasing big dreams. And it's given me great perspective.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

Getting onto 'Jeopardy!' was a pet project my whole life, so it was something I was willing to work really hard on.

It's the Peter Pan in me, I don't think I'll ever grow up.

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

As a kid, I read 'Peter Pan,' and I really wanted to be him.

I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.