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“She's got nothing to hide, And she hides it so well. Keeps broken dreams To fix up and sell.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.”
Francisco Franco (1892–1975) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement during the civil war, cited in 1938 by Time magazine, also cited in John A. Crittenden, Parties and elections in the United States, Prentice-Hall, 1982, (p.6).
“To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.”
Dave Matthews (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.”
Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Dystopian Imagination (Autumn 2001).
“The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.”
Jack Welch (1935–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Harold Arlen, as quoted in Over the Rainbow : The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America (1991) by Paul Nathanson, p. 340
“The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Behind them [Howard's stories] lurks a dark poetry and the timeless truth of dreams.”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert Bloch, Introduction to Wolfshead (Bantam, 1979)
“What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.”
Jeanette Winterson (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists — haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.”
Martin Amis (1949–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do — like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy.”
Martin Amis (1949–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutions around the corner.”
Slavoj Žižek (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To fall asleep in your embrace, Land of our dreams, what bliss, O you our cradle, you our grave, You the new hope we ever crave, Peninsula so beautiful, Finland for aye our all!”
Aleksis Kivi (1834–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.”
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The supposition is prevalent the world over that there would be no problems in production or service if only our production workers would do their jobs in the way that they were taught. Pleasant dreams. The workers are handicapped by the system, and the system belongs to the management.”
W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. ... A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.”
Romain Rolland (1866–1944) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Le Théâtre du peuple (1903)
“If you gave me just a coin for every time we say goodbye Well I'd be rich beyond my dreams, I'm sorry for my weary life I know I'm not perfect but I can smile and I hope that you see this heart behind my tired eyes.”
“Where are you this moment? only in my dreams. You're missing, but you're always a heartbeat from me.”
“After all the words are said, after all the dreams we made; every one a precious one, every one a summer sun...”
“Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.”
Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Interviewer: "So Jeff, what are your main musical influences?" Jeff (after a long pause): "Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.”
Jeff Buckley (1966–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When she wakes up in the morning She writes down all her dreams Reads like the Book of Revelations Or the Beano or the unabridged Ulysses Oh, I really wanna know So tell me, Where does all the money go? Where does all the money go? Straight, straight up her nose”
Pete Doherty (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The nurse is the night To wake to, to die in: and the day I live, The world and its life are her dreams.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I exist without the cosmic shadow, But it could not live bereft of me; As the sea exists without the waves, But they breathe not without the sea. Dreams, wakings, states of deep turiya sleep, Present, past, future, no more for me, But the ever-present, all-flowing, I, I everywhere. Consciously enjoyable, Beyond the imagination of all expectancy, Is this, my samadhi state.”
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the desert of my dreams I saw you there; And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare. But your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed. And the pain that's in your truth's deceiving me, has got me scared. Oh why?”
Sarah McLachlan (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I knew you wanted to tell me; In your voice there was something wrong. But if you would turn your face away from me, You cannot tell me you're so strong. Just let me ask of you one small thing. As we have shared so many tears, With fervor our dreams we planned a whole life long Now are scattered on the wind...”
Sarah McLachlan (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Songs are like flowers / they come up spontaneously / they are like dreams / and we only have to / write them quickly / because then they fade away / and we will not remember them"'”
Vasco Rossi (born 1952) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (from Una canzone per te, 1983)
“Stars in the sky / and dreams are few / the ones who come true" (from Ridere di te, 1987)”
Vasco Rossi (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And now that I've arrived here thanks to my dreams / what should I do with reality? / And now that I don't even have my illusions / I don't even care about truth". (from E adesso tocca a me, 2008)”
Vasco Rossi (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You talk like they don’t kick dreams around downtown.”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Till we meet again, my heart awaits you.” “till we meet again, you will trouble my dreams”
Alice Borchardt (1939–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sense that novel of my dreams is in the Remington SL3 — although it writes much faster than I can spell.”
Tom Robbins (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beyond that void is a place Where figments from bad dreams are banished Childhood nightmares all come seeking And adult logic nearly vanished ~ Chaos”
Steve Kilbey (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There’s no urgency, a third voice urged, pleading compromise. No duty calls. Hold onto the illusion a little longer. So she tried to go on pretending. After all, can’t believing sometimes make dreams come true? No, it can’t. Besides, you're awake now.”
David Brin (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The white fathers told us, I think therefore I am; and the black mothers in each of us-the poet-whispers in our dreams, I feel therefore I can be free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary awareness and demand, the implementation of that freedom.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All of those empty storefronts aren’t just shattered dreams, they’re warning lights that are going off and state and local budgets that are being stretched because of the lack of tax revenue.”
“And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.”
Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) said by 1695 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape”
“Till their own dreams at length decive 'em, And oft repeating, they believe 'em.”
Matthew Prior (1664–1721) first seen 1718 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alma, Canto III, l. 13 (1718).
“Perish that thought! No, never be it said That Fate itself could awe the soul of Richard. Hence, babbling dreams! you threaten here in vain! Conscience, avaunt! Richard ’s himself again! Hark! the shrill trumpet sounds to horse! away! My soul ’s in arms, and eager for the fray.”
Colley Cibber (1671–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky: There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the calm pleasures always hover'd nigh; But whate'er smack'd of noyance or unrest Was far, far off expell'd from this delicious nest.”
James Thomson (poet, born 1700) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: James Thomson
“Wild dreams! but such As Plato lov'd; such as with holy zeal Our Milton worshipp'd. Blessed hopes! awhile From man with-held, even to the latter days When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill'd.”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) said by 1843 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Can all that optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow? When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky.”
Thomas Campbell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And even the most pleasant of dreams could be painful under the light of the morning sun.”
Christopher Golden (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not unaware of what such daydreams signify, dreams of becoming an unthinking savage, of taking the cold road back to the capital, of groping my way out to the ruins in the desert, of returning to the confinement of my cell, of seeking out the barbarians and offering myself to them to use as they wish.”
J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where we sat at dawn together, while the star-rich heavens shifted, We were weaving dreams in silence, suddenly the veil was lifted. By a hand of fire awakened, in a moment caught and led Upward to the wondrous vision: through the star-mists overhead Flare and flaunt the monstrous highlands; on the sapphire coast of night Fall the ghostly froth and fringes of the ocean of the light.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where the ring of twilight gleams Round the sanctuary wrought, Whispers haunt me — in my dreams We are one yet know it not. Some for beauty follow long Flying traces; some there be Seek thee only for a song: I to lose myself in thee.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now when the spirit in us wakes and broods, Filled with home yearnings, drowsily it flings From its deep heart high dreams and mystic moods, Mixed with the memory of the loved earth things; Clothing the vast with a familiar face; Reaching its right hand forth to greet the starry race.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, I am so old, meseems I am next of kin to Time, The historian of her dreams From the long forgotten prime.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source