Quotes About Dreams

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

In a dream you are never eighty.

The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim.

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

I've had several really tangible dreams about UFOs, and they've been amazing!

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.

I see all that we have ruined in order to have, all that was owned for a lifetime to be destroyed forever. Where are the sleeps that escape such dreams?

The walls of the rational, empirical world are famously porous. What come through are dreams, imaginings, inspirations, visions, revelations. There is no use in stooping over these with a magnifying lens.

However interesting and lovely my days were, I could get from one day to the next only by passing through a night. I have, it is true, known lovely nights here; nights of sound sleep and good dreams and nights made wakeful by happy thoughts. but I have not always been a good sleeper, and my thoughts at night have sometimes been far from happy.

Reach for the stars and even if you miss you will land among the stars

An ocean without monsters would be like sleep without dreams.