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“Few people in this country have been able to live the American Dream to the extent that I have … Neither political party has effectively addressed the issues that concern the American people.”
Ross Perot (1930–2019) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement of October 1992, as quoted in "Ross Perot, billionaire tycoon and 2-time presidential candidate, dies at 89" by Kate Sullivan, Marlena Baldacci and Karl de Vries at CNN (9 July 2019)
“Chic, that’s what he is—a barmaid’s dream of a real gentleman.”
John le Carré (1931–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The State is a dream, too, a symbol of nothing at all, an emptiness, a mind without a body, a game played with clouds in the sky. But States make war, don’t they, and imprison people?”
John le Carré (1931–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Can’t you see it’s the same? The same guns, the same children dying in the streets? Only the dream has changed, the blood is the same colour.”
John le Carré (1931–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?”
Ernest Renan (1823–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm looking at a hand full of broken plansAnd I'm tired of playing it downYou just want her to do anything to youThere ain't nothing you won't allowYou wake up in the middle of the nightFrom a dream you won't remember flashing on like a cop's lightYou say she's waiting and I know what forThe white lady loves you more”
Elliott Smith (1969–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don Quixote, The Tale of Genji, The Dream of the Red Chamber, the Satyricon, these are the world's major works of prose fiction.”
Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Moll Flanders", in With Eye and Ear (1970), p. 13
“The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man.”
Diogenes Laërtius wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Tertullian
“We have been conned again. The Israeli elections, we are told, mean that the dream of "Greater Israel" has finally been abandoned...But it is a lie.”
Robert Fisk (1946–2020) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Another Brick in the Wall, April 4, 2006
“From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At night there are no more farmers, no more farms. At night the fields dream, the fields are the forest. The boy stands looking at the fox As if, if he looked long enough — he looks at it. Or is it the fox is looking at the boy? The trees can't tell the two of them apart.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pleasure is only for a little moment, and it [passes] like a dream, and a man at the end thereof finds death through knowing it.”
Ptahhotep (2451–2401 BC) said by 2401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maxim no. 18. Translated by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, Teaching Of Amenem Apt Son Of Kanekht (London : Martin Hopkinson and Company Ltd, 1924), p. 58
“And... / If you need me / and can't find me / search for me in a dream" (from E..., 2004)”
Vasco Rossi (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed — Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good evening, daddy I know you’ve heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What happens to a dream deferred? Daddy, ain’t you heard?”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.Or does it explode?”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A certain amount of nothing in a dream deferred.”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Daddy, daddy, daddy, All I want is you. You can have me, baby — but my lovin’ days is through. A certain amount of impotence in a dream deferred.”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Old Rossum thought only of his godless hocus-pocus and young Rossum of his billions. And that wasn't the dream of your R. U. R. shareholders either. They dreamed of the dividends. And on those dividends humanity will perish.”
Karel Čapek (1890–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two people sat talking in a small room for several weeks, and things started happening. They began thinking about each other; one would dream about the other; they copied each other's mannerisms. What was it really all about? She liked to think she had a firm hold on the reins at all times, but the truth was that often she was just along for the ride.”
Lisa Alther (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.”
Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He's a coach's dream. He's been really wonderful for the other guys I coach. Why? His work ethic, he has a great passion for playing the game; he's made my job easier.”
Terrell Owens (born 1973) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: David Culley — reported in Doug Lesmerises (February 2, 2005) "Receivers coach says Owens a gem - T.O. a role model for young players", The News Journal, p. C7.
“For to dream and then to return to reality only means that our qualms suffer a change of place and significance.”
Colette (1873–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Gigi, and Selected Writings (1963).
“On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us — ah! what a dream, to live in that! — the other stifles us at the first breath.”
Colette (1873–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is Alberich's dream come true — Nibelheim, world dominion, activity, work, everywhere the oppressive feeling of steam and fog.”
Richard Wagner (1813–1883) first seen 1877 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 25 May 1877, quoting Richard's impressions of London
“The first few days I felt trapped in a constant twilight of vertigo, like in the dream where you're suddenly falling... only I was constantly falling. In moments of fitful sleep I was aware of the dim possibility that I would wake up, truly wake up, and this would not have happened.”
“Just because our political heroes were murdered does not mean that the dream does not still live, buried deep in our broken hearts.”
“I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality.”
Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement soon after her husband's slaying in April 1968, as quoted in CNN obituary (January 31, 2006)
“About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.”
Billy Corgan (born 1967) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Out on a Limb." Details Magazine. October 1996.
“When she put him to bed, she would stay a long time making the Cross over him and murmuring a prayer; then she would go to bed and dream of that far-away misty future when Sasha would finish his studies and become a doctor or an engineer, would have a big house of his own with horses and a carriage, would get married and have children.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn’t yet appeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I watch you sleep in the still of the night / You look so pretty when you dream / So many people just go through life / Holding back, they don't say what they mean / But it's easy for me / Since you came”
“For hope is but the dream of those that wake.”
Matthew Prior (1664–1721) said by 1721 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 102; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or stay; But when he nestles in your hand at last, Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast.”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every movement of his body is an unconscious protest. Every desire, every dream, no matter how intimate or personal, is a plot or a conspiracy. Every hope is a plan for insurrection. Every glance of the eye is a threat. His very existence is a crime against the state!”
Richard Wright (1908–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you’ve parked the second car in the garage, and installed the hot tub, and skied in Colorado, and wind-surfed in the Caribbean, when you’ve had your first love affair and your second and your third, the question will remain, where does the dream end for me?”
Mario Cuomo (1932–2015) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Commencement address at Syracuse University, quoted in The New York Times (12 May 1986).
“I knew you are, Just like an angel sent from above, In your embrace, You give me more than, I could ever dream of.”
Jaclyn Victor (born 1978) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: You Bring Out the Best In Me", Gemilang, 2004
“But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I dream of moving to India, or Pakistan, and becoming a cabdriver.”
Zach Galifianakis (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I dream of starting a three-man country trio called the Chixie Dicks.”
Zach Galifianakis (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.”
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) first seen 1820 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Valley (1820), st. 9
“Myra subsided into outraged and sulky silence. Her romantic dream of motherhood had been riven into sharp-edged fragments by late-night feedings, constant diaper washing, and a baby who persisted in looking and acting like a baby, not like a young hero.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our founding fathers wrote a constitution for a dream. We have given passports to their ideals.”
Shashi Tharoor (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let thy young wanderer dream on: Call him not home. A door opens, a breath a voice From the ancient room, Speaks to him now. Be it dark or bright He is knit with his doom.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Germinal" in Vale and Other Poems (1931)