Quotes About Dreams

Recall our own recent, immediate experiences. Since dreams are often initiated by something that happened only recently, we must ask about yesterday's residue.

As any good teacher of dreams will tell you, you are all the people in your dream. Fritz Perls taught, "[All] the different parts, any part in the dream-is yourself, is a projection of yourself."22 And to ask why we made our story this way and not that way is to reenter our sacred text once again as living participants. We could have made it another way, but chose to cast it in this one. We must be all the parts of our dream, even the ones we don't like.

Yet how ordinary so many strange things turn out to be, like dreams that end up disappointing us by making sense.

Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream? Everybody comes here; this is Hollywood, land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't; but keep on dreamin' -- this is Hollywood.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

The gray, austere old earth renews her youth With dew-lines, sunshine, gossamer, and haze. How still she lies and dreams, and veils the truth, While all is fresh as in the early days!

What vague, delicious dreams, Born of this golden hour of afternoon, And air balm-freighted, fill the soul with bliss, Transpierced like yonder clouds with lustrous gleams, Fantastic, brief as they, and, like them, spun Of gilded nothingness!

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

A realist is a man who knows both the world and his own dreams.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot!

When I grow up I am going to be the gangster we are all looking for.

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that!

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.

If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

So, if you wake up with the new sunrise and all your dreams are still as new. And happiness is what you need so bad, girl, the answer lies with you.

Many dreams come true, and some have silver linings

To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.

You don't know how lucky you are to have Hollywood knocking on your door. If someone wanted to make a movie about me, I'd quit this job in a nanosecond, move to Hawaii, and spend my days on the beach.

Innovators have the visionary gift of looking ahead, the inventor's ability to create, and the entrepreneur's ability to sell. Above all, innovators have a burning desire to make their dreams into reality. They are not content to imagine the future; they want to create it.

Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.