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Quotes About Dream

I always told my mother I wanted a job where I could have a lot of fun and have a lot of time off. She asked me where I was going to find that, and I said, 'I don't know, but it's out there.
~ Sherman Hemsley
O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.
~ William Shakespeare
Adesso prentiti un po' di sonno, disse il nano, con quella che Tas definiva la Voce di Suo Nonno.
~ Margaret Weis
Ses yeux sont veloutés comme seuls les yeux sombres le sont, or les siens sont d'eau morte et de vase mêlées, rien n'y passe en ce moment qu'une douceur ensommeillée.
~ Marguerite Duras
The Course teaches that fear is literally a bad dream. It is as though the mind has been split in two; one part stays in touch with love, and the other part veers into fear. Fear manufactures a kind of parallel universe where the unreal seems real
~ Marianne Williamson
We fly forgotten as a dream, certainly, leaving the forgetful world behind us to trample and mar and misplace everything we have ever cared for. That is just the way of it, and it is remarkable.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Those who can't hope can still wish.
~ Marilynne Robinson
And as we glided across the ice toward Fingerbone, we would become aware of the darkness, too close to us, like a presence in a dream. The comfortable yellow lights of the town were then the only comfort there was in the world, and there were not many of them. If every house in Fingerbone were to fall before our eyes, snuffing every light, the event would touch our senses as softly as a shifting among embers, and then the bitter darkness would step nearer.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Lila never knew people could be so mean. She was mean, too, because the sadness in that house was like a dream that made everything strange and wrong.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I had a dream once that I was preaching to Jesus Himself, saying any foolish thing I could think of, and He was sitting there in His white, white robe looking patient and sad and amazed.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Would you like to become my wife? Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!
~ Marjane Satrapi
Also I didn't have 20/20 vision which you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.
~ Mark Haddon
Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be still and quiet, of our ability to dream during daylight.
~ Mark Haddon
He wanted actually to live inside the dream that captured his eye, to spend his days and nights in a fume of burnished gold.
~ Mark Helprin
At this instant, Alessandro was electrified, as if lightning had struck the telephone wire or Saint Elmo's fire had filled the room, for part of the dream that he could not recall had come back to him with full force.
~ Mark Helprin
In some parts of Sweden it was "a dream porridge," in others a pancake, that was made in silence and heavily salted. The custom was that the girl would eat this salty food and then go to sleep without drinking anything. As she slept, her future husband would come to her in a dream and give her water to quench her thirst. No data are available on the success rate of Swedish girls using this system to find a mate.
~ Mark Kurlansky
leadership, and particularly turnaround leadership, is about defining a dream and tethering all aspects of the organization to it.
~ Mark Rutland
Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality
~ Mark Twain
I watch the running sheets of light raised on the creek surface. The sight has the appeal of the purely passive, like the racing of light under clouds on a field, the beautiful dream at the moment of being dreamed. The breeze is the merest puff, but you yourself sail headlong and breathless under the gale force of the spirit.
~ Annie Dillard
The Bible's was an unlikely, movie-set world alongside our world. Light-shot and translucent in the pallid Sunday-school watercolors on the walls, stormy and opaque in the dense and staggering texts they read us placidly, sweet-mouthed and earnest, week after week, this world interleaved our waking world like dream.
~ Annie Dillard
And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.
~ Anthony Bourdain
What destroys the dream? What destroys it, eh?..........Disappointment. Disappointment. Disappointment.
~ Anthony Burgess
Yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, And every tomorrow a vision of hope. —
~ Anthony Robbins