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“The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.”
Edmund Hillary (1919–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping; it is something that does not let you sleep.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you.”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I guess the best that I can do now is to pretend that I've done nothing wrong and to dream about a train that's gonna take me back where I belong”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything started as a dream. You gotta have insight, know what you want. You gotta have a plan. Like I tell anybody, if you fail to plan, you're planning to fail. I've been planning ever since I was a youngster. You've got to start from somewhere. There's nothing wrong or demeaning in flipping burgers. It's more proud than selling drugs.”
Mr. T (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.”
W. C. Handy (1873–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: www.huffingtonpost.com (September 7, 2007)
“But, I'm sure you weren't aware of the dream that was born in me when I was small . . . Well, let me rephrase that -- when I was young -- because, technically, I'm still very small. And I get this from everybody when they meet me: 'You're so tiny.' I guess I am. I don't feel any height, but, apparently, I am not that big.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: address to LULAC (July 1, 2005)
“I dreamed of becoming a writer. And . . . this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book . . .”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: address to LULAC (July 1, 2005)
“I dream for a living.”
Steven Spielberg (born 1946) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time (July 15, 1985)
“There's alot of things I want, a lot of things that I'd like to be. But girl, I don't foresee a rags-to-riches story for me. There's just one little dream I've got to come true; There's just one round I've gotta win, I can't be a loser with you. Baby, baby, once in my life, let me get what I want, Girl, don't let me down! Just once in my life, let me hold on to one good thing I found!”
Carole King (born 1942) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Just Once in My Life (1965), co-written with Gerry Goffin and Phil Spector, first recorded by The Righteous Brothers
“Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.”
Carole King (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream I cannot make a single sound as you scream. It can't be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch. This place is so quiet, sensing that storm.”
Peter Gabriel (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebody's head.”
Peter Gabriel (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Give me steam. And how you feel to make it real; Real as anything you've seen. Get a life with this dreamer's dream.”
Peter Gabriel (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the Seasons' changes thus confront the mind What comfort can the Doctrine of Tao give? It will teach me to watch the days and months fly Without grieving that Youth slips away; If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, It does not matter whether one is young or old.”
Bai Juyi (772–846) said by 846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O you recall the song ya used to sing-a-long, Shifting the river-trade on that ol' steamer, Life is but a dream!”
Nick Cave (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can forget, that history puts a saint in every dream.”
Tom Waits (born 1949) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time", Rain Dogs (1985).
“Newman would be my favorite supporting character. I mean, when I got to have a real evil nemesis like Superman would have, that was a dream come true for me.”
Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The time-travel aspect of old cars, to me, is a big part of the fun. [...] I live out in East Hampton, and there's a lot of roads out there where you can't tell what year it is. So, if you get in a '63 -- and that's a '63-- everything on it was made in '63 -- you can kind of go into that little dream, like "Well, gee, if I was-- had this car in that year, this-- it would be just like this!”
Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I told Ethan that I speak in an unrestricted manner to animals—things like, aren't you just the cutest little kitty... that kind of thing, which I wouldn't dream of doing to humans. Then I realized I wish I could.”
Douglas Coupland (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You're never too old to dance, Dad...and you're never too old to dream." "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Were you saying that with irony or for real?”
Douglas Coupland (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature and culture, instinct and morality, sexuality and achievement become incompatible as a result of the split in the human structure. The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural (orgastic) sexual gratification.”
Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O dream on your black wings you come when I am sleeping.Sweet is the god but still I am in agony and far from my strength.for I had hope (none now) to share something of the blessed gods,nor was I so foolish as to scorn pleasant toys.Now may I have all these things.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 63 Voigt (tr. Willis Barnstone, 1965)
“O fathering friend and scientist of good, Who in solitude, one bygone summer’s day, And in the throes of bodily anguish, passed away From dream and conflict and research-lit lands Of ethnological learning, — even as you stood Selfless and ardent, resolute and gay, So in this hour, in strange survival stands Your ghost, whom I am powerless to repay.”
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust — ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream.”
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) said by 1797 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.”
Harper Lee (1926–2016) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On why she has done her best creative thinking while playing golf, as quoted in Time (12 May 1980)
“One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Du Rêve" in La Difficulté d’Etre [The Difficulty of Being] (1947)
“Distant lover, ooo, sugar How can you treat my heart so mean and cruel? Didn't you know, sugar, that I dream Of what I spent with you? I treasure it like it was a precious jewel, oh baby. Lord have mercy!”
Marvin Gaye (1939–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The result of the struggle between the thought and the ability to express it, between dream and reality, is seldom more than a compromise or an approximation. Thus there is little chance that we will succeed in getting through to a large audience, and on the whole we are quite satisfied if we are understood and appreciated by a small number of sensitive, receptive people.”
M. C. Escher (1898–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A tear that trembles for a little while Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world Wavers within its circle like a dream, Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb Than all the distant landscape that it blurs.”
Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dulciora, st. 1 (1872).
“Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air; And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair; And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.”
Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.”
Peter F. Hamilton (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Robert F. Kennedy used to say, 'Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not?'; that outlook has become a far too common and destructive approach to interpreting the law”
Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Catholic University, Columbus School of Law (2004).
“Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, — Outward bound.”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And all day long, so close and near, As in a mystic dream I hear Their gentle accents kind and dear — The old familiar voices. They have no sound that I can reach — But silence sweeter is than speech.”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now do you see my point?” “I’m beginning to see through a glass darkly. You mean that the mental make-up of a leading politician is likely to be such that he couldn’t dream it possible that anyone could find the prospect of becoming a dictator wholly unpalatable.” “Yes, I can see it all, Chris,” Leicester grinned. “Graft everywhere, executions just for the laughs, no wife or daughter safe.”
Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We live a dying dream / If you know what I mean”
Noel Gallagher (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
José Martí (1853–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Great Hispanic-Americans (2005) by Nicolás Kanellos, Robert Rodriguez and Tamra Orr, p. 72
“Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.”
Yanni (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, as I stand here in this august House at 67 years of age, this last November 30th … culminates for me a journey and quest that has taken me most of my adult life, two decades in fact, to fulfil a vision and a dream that I, my mother and my maternal grandfather had regarding our entry into the Vola ni Kawa Bula (VKB) [1] and to be recognised finally by the Great Council of Chiefs.”
James Ah Koy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You should always tell the truth, she thought, not because one lie leads to another, but rather because one lie could so easily lead you to that terrifying position from which, with just the help of a random dream, you can see, both back and ahead, the morass where truth and falsity are simply, for you, indistinguishable.”
Samuel R. Delany (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy.”
Jean-Louis Gassée (born 1944) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer, 1999
“Every relationship starts out with a dream of what you think it's going to be, and you either have the tool kit when you get to the hard spots where you'll make it through, or you need to move on.”
Susan Sarandon (born 1946) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Susan Sarandon On 'Jeff Who Lives At Home'" The Daily Beast (March 16, 2012)
“In the real business of life no one troubles himself much about 'moral titles'. No one would dream of surrendering any practical security, for the advantages of which he is actually in possession, in deference of the a priori jurisprudence of a whole Academy of philosophers.”
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'The House of Commons', Quarterly Review, vol. 116 (July & October 1864), p. 263