Quotes About Dreams

Everyone has a past, she reminded herself. If only she could have a good one. One that was exciting and involved pirates or space creatures.

Everyone gets to have dreams. Not just you.

Nick was definitely swoonworthy, but she had to be real. He was not for her. He was a big-time artist guy on his way to Dubai. She was a small-town girl who ran a destination wedding business. They had nothing in common.

I think everyone who gets to have dreams should reach for them. I want to help you reach.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some people think of reading only as a kind of escape: an escape from the "real" everyday world to an imaginary world, the world of books. Books are much more. They are a way of being fully human.

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

However painful they were, I needed my dreams—the metaphor for my introspection—if I was ever to be at peace.

Rüyalar?n yasaklanmamas?na hayret ediyorum. Rüya ne büyük bir vaat! Ne büyük zevk! Ne kadar özel! Hem insana bir eÅŸ de gerekmez; kad?n veya erkek, kimsenin iÅŸbirliÄŸine gerek yok. Rüyalar, ruhun tamama ermemiÅŸ cinsel eylemidir.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence… a way of being fully human.

It's hard to leave a dream behind if you don't have a new one to move toward.

Wishful thinking is a powerful force.

Dreams changed a person, and there was a little danger in that, because having a powerful dream made you vulnerable to failure and disappointment.

I see her in my dreams," he said. "Every night.

One team takes their shirts off, the other leaves them on, said Paulie. I vote Rosa is on the shirts-off team. In your dreams, she said. His gaze gave her the once-over. You guessed it. Go shampoo your brain, Paulie

The treats she served were the stuff of dreams—-a buttery tart glistening with fresh fruit, a molasses cookie that made Margot almost swoon with pleasure when she sampled it, and tiny, decadent chocolate brownies and lemon bars.

When she was little and a bad dream woke her, Gran would advise her to change the channel by turning her pillow over. It worked every time.

The emotional toll itself was exhausting. Her dreams were haunted by visions of the rape and its aftermath, the violation of everything that made her human.

That she had been with you every minute of your life from the second you took your first breath until a week ago, when she had left forever. That she was beautiful and inspiring. Brilliant, but often foolish. Quirky and infuriating. Complicated and beloved. That she was everything—a mother, a daughter, a friend, a bookseller, a purveyor of dreams.

My mother used to always tell me to embrace my dreams. If I can give you a chance to do so, then it's a gift to me, as well.

I think I loved her from the first moment I saw her. Before that, I loved her, too. Before I even knew she existed outside the realm of my dreams.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

Pero los sueños atraviesan los muros de piedra, iluminan las habitaciones vacías y oscurecen las iluminadas, y los personajes que intervienen en el sueño entran y salen a placer, burlándose de los cerrojos.