Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,159,190 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
Dreams
LoveFriendshipHappinessHopeFearCourageDeathLifeTimeWarPeaceFreedomTruthWisdomKnowledgeScienceArtMusicNatureMoneyWorkPowerGodBeautyLaughterFamilySuccess and failureChangeDreamsBooks and reading
“In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream. At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines. Sprung from cages on Highway 9, Chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected And steppin' out over the line. Baby this town rips the bones from your back. It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We gotta get out while we're young, 'Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.”
Bruce Springsteen (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is a dream a lie if it don't come true Or is it something worse?”
Bruce Springsteen (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She gets rock n roll, a rock n roll station And a rock n roll dream. She's making movies on location. She don't know what it means. But the music make her wanna be the story. And the story was whatever was the song, what it was. Rollergirl don't worry. D.J. plays the movies all night long.”
Mark Knopfler (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I worked the rowdies and daytrippersNow and then I think of youAny which way we're all shufflin'Forward in the queueThey'd like to move my operationThey'd like to get me off the pierAnd I dream I'm on a steamerPullin' out of here”
Mark Knopfler (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology.”
Andrew S. Tanenbaum (born 1944) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a Usenet message, 5 Feb 1992.
“Lightning strikes Inside my chest to keep me up at night. Dream of ways To make you understand my pain.”
John Mayer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm the truth, across the table from corporate lies Immortilized by the realness I bring to it If revolution had a movie I'd be theme music My music, you can either fight, fuck, or dream to it”
Common (rapper) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's something that you dream about, but Milli Vanilli got a Grammy. So it's hard to decide whether you're happy or not.”
Brandon Flowers (born 1981) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Grammy Preview: The Killers," Rolling Stone magazine (issue 993), February 9, 2006
“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Also used at his funeral (3 Sep. 2009) invitation. Quoted in "Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson " in CNN.com/entertainment (03 July 2009)
“I ask myself: are defeats necessary? Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is a dream from which we wake only when we meet death.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It seems like all this life was just a dream”
Robert Hunter (1941–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lucy's got two feet on the ground; she's very, very strong and yet has a wonderful soft side that she reveals here. She's a dream to work with.”
Lucy Lawless (born 1968) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Frank von Zerneck, on her work in the CBS movie Vampire Bats — reported in Associated Press (October 28, 2005) "Lawless takes on 'Vampire Bats'", Chicago Tribune, p. 48.
“ALL THIS IS A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.”
Michael Faraday (1791–1867) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Laboratory journal entry #10,040 (19 March 1849); published in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) Vol. II, edited by Henry Bence Jones p. 248. This has sometimes been quoted partially as "Nothing is too wonderful to…
“Consider the world as an abode where in you have dropped down for an hour, then you have got to leave it and go ahead; or (suppose it is) like the wealth which you lay hands upon in a dream and become over-joyed and glad. Then you wake up to find yourself empty handed.”
Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) said by 733 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But you know you can't always see when you're right You got your passion you got your pride But don't you know only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true When will you realize Vienna waits for you?”
Billy Joel (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh baby, don't it feel like heaven right now, Don't it feel like something from a dream.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The tablet market has only succeeded as a niche market over the years and it was hoped Apple would dream up some new paradigm to change all that. From what I've seen and heard, this won't be it.”
John C. Dvorak (1946–2026) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hello, giant iPod Touch" in MarketWatch (29 January 2010)
“From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.”
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war...”
Ahad Ha'am (1856–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“In a dream you are never eighty.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We all dream of being the darling of everybody's darling.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“See you and me, have a better time than most can dream. Have it better than the best, so we can pull on through. Whatever tears at us... whatever holds us down, And if nothing can be done, well make the best of whats around.”
Dave Matthews (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whence comes solace? Not from seeing, What is doing, suffering, being; Not from noting Life’s conditions, Not from heeding Time’s monitions; But in cleaving to the Dream And in gazing at the Gleam Whereby gray things golden seem.”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On a Fine Morning", ll. 1-7 (1899)
“O fatuous man, this truth infer, Brides are not what they seem; Thou lovest what thou dreamest her; I am thy very dream!”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whence comes Solace?—Not from seeing What is doing, suffering, being, Not from noting Life’s conditions, Nor from heeding Time’s monitions; But in cleaving to the Dream, And in gazing at the gleam Whereby gray things golden seem.”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When shall the saner softer polities Whereof we dream, have play in each proud land, And patriotism, grown Godlike, scorn to stand Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas?”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at "The Traveller's Rest", And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I.”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!”
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We had a beautiful dream and that was all. The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self from him. I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children.I do not even have any regrets.”
Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) said by 1793 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Marie Antoinette to the Chevalier Jarjayes on his persuading her to escape alone from the Tower; Lettres, II. p. 433; also quoted in Marie Antoinette: The Journey (2001) by Antonia Fraser, ISBN 0307277747.
“I made up my mind after reading the lessons of history never to dream of a vast world-empire. For what has become of all those so-called world-empires? Alexander, Napoleon and all such great captains bathed themselves in blood, and yet left behind them subjugated peoples, who, after those great men had died, rose in revolt and ruined the Empires they had created.”
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I dream of an Empire and it is this: The newly-born German Empire must possess the confidence of everybody, must be considered everywhere as a quiet, honest and peaceful neighbour; and if some day in the future a German world-empire is spoken of, it must not be based on the conquests of the sword, but on the reciprocal confidences of nations united for an identical end.”
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you’re so lonely lying in bed, Night’s closed it’s eyes but you can’t rest your head. Everyone’s sleeping all through the house, You wish you could dream but forgot to somehow. Sing this lullaby to yourself.”
Jack Johnson (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eons ago when your ancestors were defending their caves against the tiger and the mammoth, with crude spears of flint, the gold spires of my people split the stars! They are gone and forgotten, and the world is a waste of barbarians, white and black. Let me, too, pass as a dream that is forgotten in the mists of the ages...”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But who is this who rides in silver white Attire that shames the stars across the night? Helmet and shield and corselet all a-gleam, Like some crusader from a drifting dream Upon a prancing jackass shod with flame— Rise, heralds of the past, bray forth his name”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (c. November–December 1928)
“There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.”
Jeanette Winterson (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes I will come for you. Roll my strength into a ball for you. Throw myself across chance for you. I will be the bridge or the pulley because you are the dream.”
Jeanette Winterson (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Decision, the moment of saying yes, is prompted by something deeper; recognition. I recognise you; I know you again, from a dream or another life, or perhaps even from a chance sighting in a café, years ago.”
Jeanette Winterson (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only because of the striving nature of men has mankind achieved what it has so far. Men are made that way; they are designed to reach out for things which they cannot see with their eyes but can only imagine. A man naturally seeks after his dream, his ideal, while women are more concerned with the here and now rather than the future, intangible realm.”
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ideal Family and Ideal World (1982-06-06)
“This is a country for white men, and, by G—d, as long as I am president it shall be a government for white men." Johnson, quoted in The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation by Brenda Wineapple (p. xviii)”
Andrew Johnson (1808–1875) said by 1875 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source