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“We had so many dreams at the time. We thought a country so rich in natural resources could really go ahead on its own. But our dreams were shattered by tribalism.”
J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere (1930–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I may have big dreams, but her dreams for me are even bigger.”
Amara La Negra (born 1990) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Se Que Soy': Amara La Negra Embraces Her Afro-Latinidad (March 14, 2018)
“Youth dreams a bliss on this side death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm’s not life’s crown, though calm is well.”
Matthew Arnold (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.”
Amos Bronson Alcott (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shine, ye stars of heaven, On a world of pain! See old Time destroying All our hoarded gain; All our sweetest flowers, Every stately shrine, All our hard-earned glory, Every dream divine! Shine, ye stare of heaven, On the rolling years! See how Time, consoling, Dries the saddest tears, Bids the darkest storm-clouds Pass in gentle rain, While upspring in glory Flowers and dreams again!”
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the game of Dawn Card-Castles, fifty-two playing cards are stacked up into a castle in a draught-free space: the player can determine the dreams of the next night if he awakes before the castle collapses. Those players who wish to dream of Romance build their castle with the seven of hearts.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have so many friends who hate their jobs and man, it's such a struggle trying to find what they love or what they dream of. I feel so lucky that I found what I love and my dreams have started to come true.”
Taryn Manning (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you're eight or nine years old and you look at the TV set men are landing on the moon — anything is possible. And that is something we need to not lose sight of, is that the inspiration and permission to dream is immense. … It's important to have specific dreams.”
Randy Pausch (1960–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People don't dream [in Estonia]. People don't have dreams. When your kid wants to be a superstar in America, the whole family supports the kid. If someone has talent it's appreciated and recognized. But in Estonia people will say: What, do you think you're better than us? We here, we are miserable, you're gonna be miserable too, because nobody can be different.”
“Fame and fortune is a magnet. It can pull you far away from home With a dream in your heart you're never alone. Dreams turn into dust and blow away And there you are without a friend”
Hal David (1921–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What do you do when your dream dies? Dreams die in every life. Everyone gets old. There is promise in the beginning when life seems so bright. The promise fades when the years get short.”
Vernor Vinge (1944–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, my love You're searching For your name Beside the sea Of dwells and dreams Where Shadows're dancing For your glance... The sky would chance The granting of a dream To the restless soul That dwells within your heart...”
Mike Oldfield (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind's singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.”
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us go on committing suicide by working among our people, and let them dream life just as the lake dreams the sky.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You got some big dreams, baby, but in order to dream you gotta still be asleep.”
“In this dream, Dodge was in the small town in Iowa where he had grown up...the grid street pattern of that town was, decades later, the spatial lattice on which virtually all of his dreams were constructed. It was the graph paper on which his mind seemed to need to plot things.”
Neal Stephenson (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocent self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.”
Herman Melville (1819–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You seem to have dreamt on the white stone, in the midst of the people of dreams, since you dreamt so long a dream in the course of so short a night.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I also begin where he began, and follow wither the dream led him. Meanwhile, I can but entreat you to remember it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.”
James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at a Soviet Official banquet, St George's Halls, the Kremlin (30 March 1987)
“In a 2024 interview with The Guardian, Dolly addressed speculation about her retirement, stating, "I can’t retire. I always say I’ve dreamed myself into a corner. I’ve got to keep all those dreams alive. Every dream spins off into something else.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton Clears up “Misinformation” About Future of Her Career (November 1, 2024 )
“The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.”
J. G. Ballard (1930–2009) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Metaphors No. 7, (1983)
“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not at first. She was against new things. She thought I would never be successful, and that was wrong, she was wrong. Later she started to believe that I could maybe be somebody. But it was always a big maybe. To her, the life that I wanted, it was all a dream. And she didn’t believe in dreams.”
Sophia Loren (born 1934) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On whether her mother, who had entertainment aspirations of her own, was pleased with Loren’s ascent in “Sophia Loren: 'The body changes. The mind does not'” in The Guardian (2020 Nov 6)
“We're not prophets. We're not here to inform the rich people of the world on how to make more money, or to inform governments on how to direct themselves. We are here to allow you to dream your dreams and make them happen, and have your nightmares a little in advance so you can prevent them from happening.”
Greg Bear (1951–2022) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On science fiction writers, Guest of Honor speech at the Millennium Philcon 59th World Science Fiction Convention (2001), from Women in Deep Time (2002), p.224, ed. ibooks
“The point is, is that the aim of our work must be not to just have a few do well, but to have everybody have a chance, everybody who is willing to work for it have the ability to dream big and then reach those dreams.”
Barack Obama (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now I could let these dream killers kill my self esteem, Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh.”
Kanye West (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Last night I saw you in my dreams Now I can't wait to go to sleep And this life is all a dream So my real life starts when I go to sleep.”
Kanye West (born 1977) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hey Mama", Live performance at the Grammys, 10 February 2008
“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: NDTV (27 July 2015 obituary citing his memorable quotes)
“After all, what is a film? It is selling of a dream. We have to tell lies to people, we have to sell them dreams.”
Shahrukh Khan (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World (June 1994)
“Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong / Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone / So bring it on home and it won't be long / It's gettin' better man!”
Noel Gallagher (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We dream our dreams alone with no resistance / Fading like the stars we wish to be True perfection has to be imperfect My God woke up on the wrong side of his bed Little by little / We gave you everything you ever dreamed of / And little by little / the wheels of your life have slowly fallen off"”
Noel Gallagher (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessings few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.”
Thomas Pynchon (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[M]uch like Israel itself, this is a novel about great dreams, about great expectations, about bigger-than-life visions and, indeed, about the morning after and the sad realization that every dream come true is bound to be flawed by coming true. (about Black Box)”
Amos Oz (1939–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everybody's got a hunger, a hunger they can't resist; There's so much that you want, you deserve much more than this. But if dreams came true, oh, wouldn't that be nice? But this ain't no dream we're living through tonight. Girl, you want it, you take it, you pay the price.”
Bruce Springsteen (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.”
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Herbert Mitgang, "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles", The New York Times, (22 April 1984)
“When I was in school, I dreamed about becoming a psychiatrist or a ballerina. Like most girls I would dream about being a movie star too. But those dreams are the impossible kind, the kind you don't really set your heart on.”
Sharon Tate (1943–1969) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Screen Stories magazine (1967)
“That's why I can dream dreams that God Himself never dreamed. I'm that kind of person. I can believe the things even God can't believe. I can do things even God can't. That's why God hated me more than Satan hated me.”
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Father's Words in Washington D.C. (2003-05-17)
“Marxism emerged not only with the intention of explaining scientifically everything in the world, but in addition to this, as a representative of the ‘hurt and injured’ classes of the world, expressing thus the centuries old dream of an earthly paradise. But dreams and wishes have nothing to do with science.”
Alexander Zinoviev (1922–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not love you; the former dream Of passions and torments has passed by; But your image in my soul Is still alive, although it is powerless; Although I abandon myself to other dreams, I still cannot forget it; So an abandoned temple is still a temple, A dethroned idol — still a god!”
Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) first seen 1831 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I do not love you..." (1831)
“For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay — Except the dream that's almost dead today.”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”
James Allen (1864–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.”
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872) first seen 1843 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface to Second Edition (1843)
“Imagination is the outreaching of mind … the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions...”
Rollo May (1909–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo'.”
José Saramago (1922–2010) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in José Saramago: il bagaglio dello scrittore, page 41, by Giulia Lanciani, published by Bulzoni, 1996 , 9788871199337 (256 pages).
“Dreams, Mr. Nyazi, are perfect ideals, complete in themselves. How can you impose them on a constantly changing, imperfect, incomplete reality? You would become a Humbert, destroying the object of your dream; or a Gatsby, destroying yourself.”
Azar Nafisi (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.”
William Baziotes (1912–1963) first seen 1949 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Artist and His Mirror, W. Baziotes, in Right Angle Vol. III, no. 2, Washington DC, June 1949
“I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.”
Ayumi Hamasaki (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By the winding stream we shall lie and dream We'll make dreams come true if we want them to Yes all will come play the pipes and drum Sing a happy song and we'll sing along.”
Van Morrison (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source