Quotes About Dreams

When I was younger, I had no idea that I would be an actor. I had an interest in it, but I never actually did it. I didn't really expect it to be a career path.

I had no intention of becoming an actor.

I left everything I had to become an actor. So, I better be excited, or otherwise, there is no point in doing all this. Else I would end up being disappointed with whatever I achieve.

There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.

None of us are going to get younger, there's no point in trying to chase that dream because it won't happen.

I have always wanted to play for United, and when I got my chance, I knew I had to take it no matter what, so you go out with no pressure.

Es la posibilidad lo que me mantiene con esperanza, no la garantía; es como una apuesta que me hago a mí mismo. Y a pesar de que quizás alguien me llame loco o soñador, creo que en la vida todo es posible.

and for a brief moment she felt fifteen again. Felt as she hadn't in years, as if all her dreams could still come true.

Todo el mundo tiene sueños que no llegan a cumplirse —respondió ella con un tono suave.

Cuando sus labios sellaron los míos, supe que podría vivir hasta cumplir los cien años y visitar todos los países del mundo, pero que nada se podría comparar con ese preciso instante, cuando, por primera vez, besé a la chica de mis sueños y supe que mi amor por ella nunca tendría fin,,

Y a pesar de que quizá alguien me llame loco o soñador, creo que en la vida todo es posible.

la nuova versione vibrante, in carne e ossa del passato che non lo aveva mai abbandonato. Più di una volta una versione più giovane di Amanda gli era comparsa in sogno e si chiedeva se quei sogni sarebbero cambiati in futuro. Che aspetto avrebbe avuto lei? Non lo sapeva. Sapeva solo che stare qui con lei lo faceva sentire completo, in un modo che pochi potevano capire.

In a notebook she kept in the drawer of her nightstand, she'd compiled a list of more than a hundred places she still wanted to visit . . . noting places that sparked her imagination.

Creo que en la vida todo es posible.

She hoped he dreamed of playing with other children, children who responded to him, children who didn't shy away because he didn't speak. In his dreams, she hoped he was happy. God could at least do that much, couldn't he?

I knew full well that none of those were the kinds of occupations they'd grown up dreaming about.

You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life. Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a job is just a job. What does that mean? Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

disclaimer:This is a work of nonfiction, but it is also full of dreams, speculations, and shadows. Many names have been changed.

Well, I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song.

If you haven't heard him...man, it's like he boiled down down all the melancholy in the world, all the bruises and all the fucked-up dreams you've let go, and poured the essence into a little tiny bottle and corked it up.

But I didn't know where I wanted to go. Or what I wanted to do when I got there. I had dreams, but they were vague things with no real substance. I wanted to be famous, or really rich, or wildly successful, but that was as far as the dream went. My whole life was a fill-in-the-blank.

Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having--a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all the urgent reading, whatever that might be, has been done. We never arrive at that point, needless to say....

Pero lo que resultaba raro a su edad era que uno se pasaba la mitad del tiempo soñando con lo que podía suceder y la otra mitad intentando no pensar en eso, y en ambos casos uno se encontraba aprisionado en un periodo vital que no parecía importar demasiado, a mitad de camino entre la infancia y lo que implicara la madurez consolidada. (...)Y tal vez eso no tuviera ningún futuro, pero era un presente, y en eso consiste la vida.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.