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“If indeed, the subatomic energy is being freely used to maintain their great furnaces, it seems to bring a little nearer to fulfillment our dreams of controlling this latent power for the well being of the humans-or for its suicide.”
Arthur Eddington (1882–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mozart's melodies, Beethoven's symphonies, Schubert's songs, acts two and three of Tristan are symbols in which are revealed the most profound spiritual truths. They are not "invented", but are "given in their dreams"to those privileged to receive them. Whence they come no one knows, not even their creator, the unconscious mouthpiece of the demiurge.”
Richard Strauss (1864–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She was married for seven years to a concrete castle king. She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar and to hear her children sing. So I'd show up about once a week in my faded tight-legged jeans with a backlog full of hobo stories and dilapidated dreams.”
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's a vacancy, won't you come to me And fill my empty spaces I'm a motel man in a promised land That's filled with empty faces So won't you bring your sorrows bring your dreams, It's a place for you to be There's no more tomorrow or that's how it seems Won't you come to me? I've got a vacancy”
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good dreams don't come cheap You've got to pay for them.”
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.”
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.”
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wish to dissipate, if I can, the idle dreams of those who are always telling you that the strength of England depends, sometimes they say upon its prestige, sometimes they say upon its extending its Empire, or upon what it possesses beyond the seas. Rely upon it the strength of Great Britain and Ireland is within the United Kingdom.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Edinburgh (25 November 1879), quoted in W. E. Gladstone, Midlothian Speeches 1879 (Leicester University Press, 1971), p. 46.
“How could anybody think this man was sick? All right, so he had funny dreams. That was better than being plain mean and hateful, like about one quarter of the people she had ever met.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Working on 'The Lathe'" (1979)
“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.”
Haruki Murakami (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Put me in your dry dreams or put me in your wet If you haven't yet.”
Devendra Banhart (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I tried to pass for nothing But my dreams gave me away”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.”
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his father in "The Public Son of a Public Man" as quoted in Time magazine (20 January 1986)
“I'd like them to see that those things that set us apart or make us different can be wonderful contributions to the world around us. I'd like them to see that size and color are irrelevant to the dreams we envision for ourselves. And I'd also love for them to see that life is a journey, and every step of the way, we can learn something and become stronger and wiser.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: answer to what she would like young readers to take away after reading her first children's book -- quote from Latina Magazine (October 2005)
“Except in dreams, you're never really free.”
Warren Zevon (1947–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Green fields and rolling hills, Room enough to do what we will. Sweet dreams of yestertime Are running though my mind Of a place I left behind. Been so long, I can't remember when, I've been to Canaan and I wanna go back again.”
Carole King (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In this proud land we grew up strong; We were wanted all along. I was taught to fight, taught to win; I never thought I could fail.No fight left or so it seems; I am a man whose dreams have all deserted. I've changed my face, I've changed my name, But no one wants you when you lose.”
Peter Gabriel (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dreams unwind Love's a state of mind”
Stevie Nicks (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Time magazine, "Mexican Autobiography" (27 April 1953)
“Her friends have become who they've become by default. Their dreams are forgotten, or were never formulated to begin with.”
Douglas Coupland (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The [Conservative] Government seemed hopeless and confused and without purpose... Unfortunately, the men who ought to be awake were slumbering, and in their dreams they babbled incoherencies about good will and subsidies... There had never been a more pitiful exhibition than that made by the Prime Minister in the debate on unemployment.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Eastern Counties Liberal Federation in Wisbech (10 July 1925), quoted in The Times (11 July 1925), p. 16
“I’ve always said there’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.”
Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What do we know? What do we really know? He licks his dried cracked lips. We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foreknowledge of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement. I challenge that statement. With what? I don't know.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One wishes to go on. On this great river one could glide forever — and here we discover the definition of bliss, salvation, Heaven, all the old Mediterranean dreams: a journey from wonder to wonder, drifting through eternity into ever-deeper, always changing grandeur, through beauty continually surpassing itself: the ultimate Homeric voyage.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.”
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The New York Times (5 January 1964)
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts — That hope always triumphs over experience — That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
Robert Fulghum (born 1937) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Credo" at his official website; this may be partly influenced by remarks of Albert Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929): I am en…
“There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth — yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You said, "They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people." — "What," I asked you, "is harmless about a dreamer, and what," I asked you, "is harmless about the love of the people? — Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Would you maybe / Come dancing with me / Coz to me it doesn't matter if your hopes and dreams are shattered”
Noel Gallagher (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My body feels young but my mind is very old So what do you say / You can't give me the dreams that are mine anyway / You're half the world away I've been lost, I've been found / But I don't feel down”
Noel Gallagher (born 1967) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Half the World Away, 1994
“When I was young I though I had my own key / I knew exactly what I wanted to be / Now I'm sure / You've boarded up every door While we're living / The dreams we had as children fade away”
Noel Gallagher (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All your dreams are made of strawberry lemonade / And you make sure I eat today”
Noel Gallagher (born 1967) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Talk Tonight, 1995
“Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.”
Bill Bailey (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.”
“Life, I sometimes think—like dreams, like stories, like plans, even like lies if you will—is to be pondered on, interpreted, interrogated: but you had best not try to change it too radically in the middle, or you risk never finding its secret.”
Samuel R. Delany (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the dreams that have inspired me and given a purpose to my life is that of a great and undivided Bengal … a Bengal that is above all sects and groups and is the home alike of the Muslim, the Hindu, the Christian and the Buddhist.”
Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dreams and reality are united in our imagination. The artist possesses the means to create only after he has effective command of his faculty of empathy which he must develop simultaneously with his imaginative capacity.”
Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My relations with Korchnoi depend on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.”
Anatoly Karpov (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's a lot of blood, sweat and guts between dreams and success.”
Bear Bryant (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The cardinal mystery of neurobiology is not self-love or dreams of immortality but intentionality. What is the prime mover, the weaver who guides the flashing shuttles?”
E. O. Wilson (1929–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever happened, it happened in extraordinary times, in a season of dreams and in Natchez it was the bitterest winter of them all. (beginning of "First Love ")”
Eudora Welty (1909–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But take your time, think a lot, Why, think of everything you’ve got For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not”
Cat Stevens (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Underneath her kiss I was so unguarded Every bottle’s empty now and all those dreams are gone Ah, but the song carries on … so holy”
Cat Stevens (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.”
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry (5 October 1962)