Quotes About Dreams

How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build? No purpose to accomplish? No meaning? No meaning – that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always.

pipe dream." This term meant the same then as it does today, a way of describing an irrational sense of optimism. Irrational or not, this is opium's greatest gift to the smoker: boundless optimism—the kind that one rarely experiences beyond childhood. All good things seem possible; problems are easily solvable; obstacles are always surmountable.

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said the purpose of books was to permit us to exercise that faculty. Art, he said, was a controlled madness… He said books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.

Un libro es una máquina para fabricar sueños. Está hecho para sacarte de este mundo.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

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

Nero wanted only to be an actor; Commodus, to be a gladiator; and young Antoninus Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to be Venus!

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. Steven Spielberg

I don't dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living.

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

Ändå jämrade sig minnet och sade: Riv inte, det är mina hus. Ni får inte slakta Klara! Varför inte, frågade då förnuftet, och minnet svarade: Därför att det är i denna del av världen som du har upplevt de klarvaknaste och mest spännande timmarna i ditt liv. Därför att alla dessa Klaras hus varit kulisser åt dina drömmar, bakgrunder till dina vandringar, vittnen till dina konspirationer.

One day a year let's all pretend that death is tucked up, fast asleep. That no lives meet a tragic end, no dreams are shattered on the cheap. The world's at peace, there are no wars, we hug our friend, our former foe. No beggars die outside locked doors, all cells are empty on death row. Nobody's stabbed, nobody's shot, no car runs over someone's friend. This can't be true! – Well, maybe not. All I'm saying is: let's pretend.

Det är ett faktum som ingen kan bestrida att hon under hela denna långa tid inte en dag vikit från min sida. Om dagarna har hon ständigt varit i mina tankar. Om nätterna har hon varit i mina drömmar.

Het is altijd de eeuwige, voorgehouden waarheid die niemand ontgaan kan: dat men in 't zelfde vel blijft steken waarin men geboren is... dat men niet buiten de dingen kan die u omgeven, tenzij in den droom.

There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.

There is a saying: in dreams the heart speaks truly.

Their language is that of dreams and memories.

Never, in all my dreams, in all my childhood fantasies, had I seen her this clearly. She was my guardian-pursuer; still wearing the image of the Sacramantan actress, Gimel Metatronim.

My future, I feel, is narrow, and I would like my story to be carried out into the world.