Quotes about Dreams

“The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.”

“My bedroom is my favorite chill out zone, where after a hectic day, I sign off to land in my dreams.”

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

“Learn from your dreams what you lack.”

“The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.”

“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.”

“I never wished to be a 'rock star.' I just wanted to be a working musician. My dreams didn't even go past a session player or a working musician. It was too far beyond my dreams.”

“I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.”

“We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.”

“I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.”

“Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even after I started writing it, I was like, 'Oh my God, how am I gonna write a book?' Just set your sights high and reach for the stars. Go live your dreams, and never think you can't.”

“Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.”

“For me they are no different, reality and dreams.”

“I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.”

“I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.”

“I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.”

“We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.”

“Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.”

“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”

“Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.”

“I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.”