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“The man that is poor is not the one who has no money but one without a dream. Children of destiny can never be poor, though they may experience temporary lacks.”
T. B. Joshua (1963–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth—all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.”
Lee De Forest (1873–1961) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: De Forest Says Space Travel Is Impossible, Lewiston Morning Tribune via Associated Press, February 25, 1957
“I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!”
Tove Jansson (1914–2001) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 1" (1977).
“Once this was a free country. Oh, I always knew that couldn’t last, that here too things were bound to grind back to the norm—masters and serfs, whatever names they go by. And so far we continue happier than most of the world ever was. But damn, modern democracy has the technology to regiment us beyond anything Caesar, Torquemada, Suleyman, or Louis XIV dared dream of.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have taken to foraging alone after nightfall when the city quiets and becomes introspective. I walk as an intruder on its solipsistic dream. I came by darkness, I live by darkness. The savage brightness of the desert is like some legend I heard a long time ago. My existence grows nocturnal. My beliefs change.”
China Miéville (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the postmodern tradition, the pseudo-academics behind the concept of white privilege have invented for themselves an artificial, political construct. Political constructs confer power on those who dream them up. For politics is the predatory process through which the figment of sick minds is weaponized.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Demonization Of Whites By Mrs. Bill Gates & Other Dangerous Idiots," Constitution.com, June 8, 2018
“You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream, you've got to get out there and make it happen yourself.”
Diana Ross (born 1944) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Jet magazine, Vol. 67, No. 2 (4 February 1985), p. 40
“If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real.”
Charles K. Kao (1933–2018) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview, April 9, 1995, about his efforts at persuading telecommunications companies to use optical fibers, as quoted by
“I must and will work to ensure that the new democratic South Africa has a fair chance to succeed economically as well as politically, and to try to assist in fulfilling at least a part of the dream of the oppressed and deprived when the new South Africa is born.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C, April 1991.
“We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even the biggest book is fragmentary: to finish anything, you have to cut your losses. Nobody ever writes his dream book. (33.54)”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sleep, baby, sleep! Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, And down drops a little dream for thee. Sleep, baby, sleep!”
Elizabeth Prentiss (1818–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cradle Song" (From the German), stanza 1, in Henry T. Coates ed., The Children's Book of Poetry (Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1879), p. 29.
“Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build houses start wars, act in plays, try to please patrons- and so on... They contain patterns, press the practitioners to "conform" and in this way mold their thought, their perception, their actions, and their discriminative abilities.”
Paul Karl Feyerabend (1924–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist … is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at the time. … Should we not replace these foreshadowings by the study of the influences of Hellenistic thought on modern thought?”
Lucio Russo (1944–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one’s life.”
Jack McDevitt (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'd love to visit space, to see how our beautiful planet looks from there. I think every man has such a dream, but you'd need years of hard working for that.”
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (born 1979) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (2008)
“On the day that you were born The angels got together And decided to create a dream come true So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold And starlight in your eyes of blue.”
Hal David (1921–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She's ma lady love, she is ma dove, ma baby love, She's no gal for sittin' down to dream, She's de only queen Laguna knows; I know she likes me, I know she likes me Bekase she says so; She is de Lily of Laguna, she is ma Lily and ma Rose.”
Leslie Stuart (1863–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is, however, one car company that has never lost sight of its role in the marketplace. Rolls-Royce. Sir Henry Royce, who founded the company back in 1904, really was a one-man quote machine. "Strive for perfection in everything you do." "Accept nothing as nearly right or good enough." "The quality remains long after the price is forgotten." "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.”
Jeremy Clarkson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dig if U will the picture Of U and I engaged in a kiss. The sweat of your body covers me. Can U my darling, Can U picture this?Dream if U can a courtyard, An ocean of violets in bloom. Animals strike curious poses; They feel the heat, The heat between me and U.”
Prince (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man can never dream these kind of things Especially when she came and spread her wings Whispered in my ear the things I'd like Then she flew away into the night.”
Liam Gallagher (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I dream of silent verses where the rhyme Glides noiseless as an oar.”
Richard Aldington (1892–1962) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From At the British Museum Collected Poems, 1929
“Amado mio When we're together I'm in a dream world Of sweet delight.”
Doris Fisher (1915–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My prayer is to linger with you At the end of the day in a dream that's divine; My prayer is a rapture in blue With the world far away and your lips close to mine.”
Jimmy Kennedy (1902–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What do you do when your dream dies?”
Vernor Vinge (1944–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want people to be taken away to another planet when they watch me skate. I want them to be transported into a dream world.”
Johnny Weir (born 1984) first seen 1008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: {{cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124121023&ft=1&f=1008|title=
“My door is always open to anyone, who like my parents, came here searching for the American Dream.”
Jose Peralta (1971–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.”
Edwina Currie (born 1946) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mrs Currie Dishes Up Aids Advice", The Yorkshire Post (13 February 1987).
“He wants to dream like a young man With the wisdom of an old man. He wants his home and security, He wants to live like a sailor at sea. Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? You realize you just can't have it all.”
“It will take time for this to sink in. It was my dream to one day drive a Formula One car and even if my target now has been to fight for poles and race wins, I didn’t expect it today and it feels fantastic. Doing it here in Italy is also amazing.”
Sebastian Vettel (born 1987) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/9/8379.html September 13, 2008
“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That’s what I’m exploring.”
Gregory Colbert (born 1960) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peerless on the Pier" in Town & Country (March 2005)
“Economic freedom is extraordinarily important. It’s the freedom to do with your resources what you believe you should do. My dream has always been to make poor people rich, not rich people poor.”
Arthur Laffer (born 1940) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John Seiler, “Let’s make Watts look like Beverly Hills,” Orange County Register (August 6, 2000)
“Oh, wonderful teacher! Oh, favored disciples! Oh, famous school — that built no marble halls, and collected no grand library, but turned all life into opportunity; made houses and streets and seaside and mountain-tops, places of discipline and recitation and delight! Oh, blest example — shining this day on the pages of history — our example, our dream, our desire!”
John Heyl Vincent (1832–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A child will gloat over the sufferings of a wounded animal till his mother bids him "put it out of its misery." An unsophisticated child would not dream of terminating the poor creature's agonies abruptly, any more than he would swallow whole a bon-bon till he had well sucked it.”
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Drifting a dream On a mystical sea... A wishful emotion A drop in the ocean A hush in the air You can feel anywhere In the cool twilight Of a tropical night...”
Mike Oldfield (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Far We've been traveling far Without a home But not without a star.Free, Only want to be free. We huddle close; Hang on to a dream.”
Neil Diamond (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Turn on your heartlight; Let it shine wherever you go. Let it make a happy glow For all the world to see. Turn on your heartlight In the middle of a young boy's dream. Don't wake me up too soon. Gonna take a ride across the moon, You and me.”
Neil Diamond (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“then you too are a dream which last night and the night before that and the years before that you were not.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All my life, it seems Just a crazy dream Reaching for somebody's star, Like an open door That you've passed before, But you never had the key.”
Ronnie James Dio (1942–2010) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Light in the Black" on Rising (1976)
“Whenever you dream, You're holding the key, It opens the door To let you be free.”
Ronnie James Dio (1942–2010) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sacred Heart" on Sacred Heart (1985)
“I achieved more than I could dream of in chess and in chess composing.”
Yochanan Afek (born 1952) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview with Tibor Károlyi, Genius in the Background (2009), p. 59.
“It was 1848 which shattered this comfortable dream. The dynastic principle, finally destroyed in France, was called in question and discredited all over central Europe; and, with popular sovereignty being now everywhere invoked as the basis of political authority, new nations began to make their voice heard.”
E. H. Carr (1892–1982) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Napoleon to Stalin" (1950)
“In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.”
William A. Henry III (1950–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...that dream world which is precisely the 'metaphysical world of woman,' the ideal, static woman, who is so much less troublesome than the real article... For the celibate who prefers not to be tied down to a wife, or whose canonical situation forbids marriage, the 'Mary' of his imagination could appear to be the ideal spouse. p. 161”
Mary Daly (1928–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Searching through the fragments of my dream shattered sleep I wonder if the years have closed her mind I guess it must be wanderlust or trying to get free From the good old faithful feeling we once knew Carefree highway, let me slip away on you Carefree highway you seen better days..”
Gordon Lightfoot (1938–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'll never understand the kind of writer who genuinely advances the proposition that life is a dream or a fiction. To me that's the voice of privilege, whether it's money, class, sex, color, or what have you. Most of us can't find refuge in anything so false.”
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A free and peaceful new world without exploitation and oppression was the age-long dream and ideal of humanity”
Kim Il-sung (1912–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The revolution itself originates from a dream of the future or from the craving for a new life.”
Kim Il-sung (1912–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.”
Matt Mullenweg (born 1984) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Big Omaha, Conference Interview, May 2010
“Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.”
William McKeen (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source