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• “Playing together without having to compromise our sound was a dream come true.”

  Eddie Van Halen (1955–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.”

  Bel Kaufman (1911–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Do not grieve for her! Who knows, but she may have found the joy she sought? Love and patience are all that make for happiness in this world; or in the world of the past or of the future; of the living or the dead. She dreamed her dream; and that is all that any of us can ask.”

  Bram Stoker (1847–1912) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Jewel of Seven Stars, Chapter XIX: The Great Experiment (1903)

• “To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.”

  Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Ghiberti to Gainsborough, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p . 231

• “Reality and dream simultaneously, and myself makes a third in the party, completely at home here. This will be fine.”

  Paul Klee (1879–1940) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Diary-note, 7 April 1914; as quoted by June Taboroff, on 'AramcoWorld', May, June 1991

• “Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream. (p67)”

  Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We're here to make space more accessible to all. We want to turn the next generation of dreamers into the astronauts of today and tomorrow. We've all us on this stage have had the most extraordinary experience, and we'd love it if a number of you can have it, too. … If you ever had a dream, now is the time to make it come true — and I'd like to end by saying welcome to the dawn of a new space age.”

  Richard Branson (born 1950) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in "Richard Branson goes to space", by Jackie Wattles, Fernando Alfonso III and Mike Hayes, CNN (11 July 2021)

• “to analyse my dream and its significance in my insignificant life, but I had to get dressed for work.”

  Chetan Bhagat (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Who said "Peacock Pie"? The old king to the sparrow: Who said "Crops are ripe"? Rust to the harrow. Who said, "Ay, mum's the word"? Sexton to willow. Who said, "Green dusk for dream?" Moss for a pillow. Who said, "All Time’s delight Hath she for narrow bed; Life’s troubled bubble broken"?— That’s what I said.”

  Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But to-day, mankind believes itself able to do without Art. It does not wish to meditate, to contemplate, to dream; it wishes to enjoy physically. The heights and the depths of truth are indifferent to it; it is content to satisfy its bodily appetites. Mankind to-day is brutish — it is not the stuff of which artists are made.”

  Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I've got it.. .the Saint Lazare[train-station in Paris, then. I'll show it just as the trains are starting, with smoke from the engines so thick you can hardly see a thing. It's a fascinating sight, a real dream. I'll get them [the station office] to delay the train for Rouen for half an hour. The light will be better then.”

  Claude Monet (1840–1926) first seen 1877 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Monet's remark to Renoir (who responded: 'you are mad!') in January 1877; as quoted in The private live of the Impressionists, Sue Roe; Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, p. 173

• “I was completely ignorant of the poetry of Poe; it is admirable, it is poetry itself, the dream, and how one feels that you have translated its soul! I am no more than a completely illiterate ignoramus, but am not any the less moved by it. I knew only Poe's prose, which I had read and admired very young before I had heard it spoken of, but how your poems complete and express the man he was”

  Claude Monet (1840–1926) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: in his letter, 15 February 1889, (L. 911); as cited in Steven Z. Levine, ‎Claude Monet (1994), Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self. p. 93

• “I am working as hard as I possibly can, and do not even dream of doing anything except the cathedral. It is an immense task.”

  Claude Monet (1840–1926) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: in a letter from to his art-dealer Durand-Ruel, 30 March 1893; as quoted in: Christoph Heinrich (2000), Monet, p. 57

• “I, who believe that every artist should be his own teacher, cannot dream of setting myself up as a professor.”

  Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream.”

  José Rizal (1861–1896) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Laughter and Tears", an essay (c.1884)

• “Surrealism, is interested in a dream world that will penetrate the human psyche.”

  Barnett Newman (1905–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I dream of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all the times we fished together. Do you remember all the times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling shame and regret. -Jalil's letter”

  Khaled Hosseini (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Well you know, that's still my first love. I'll die and say that I was a DB. But you know, there's still time —— there's still time in my life to still be able to fulfill my dream.”

  Ted Ginn Jr. (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Would you like to talk?” “When I dream, I am talking.” “But to yourself.” “Who knows me better?” He laughed softly. “And who can deceive you better,” she said a little tartly.”

  Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We had a very lovely place [in Ascona with his life-companion Marianne Werefkin ] with a garden directly on the lake. It was on the edge of Ascona. Next to it began the Campagna [landscape], and this Campagna was enchantingly beautiful, like a dream.”

  Alexej von Jawlensky (1864–1941) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: quote from Jawlensky's memoirs, 1936/41: Lebenserinnerungen (Memories) p. 119; as cited in Exile, the Avant-Garde, and Dada: Women Artists Active in Switzerland during the First World War , by Isabel Wünsche, p. 66

• “Over the gulfs of dream Flew a tremendous bird Further and further away Into a moonless black, Deep in the brain, far back.”

  Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse: Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms. Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called; The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows; And love, love sang toward.”

  Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It was ages ago in life's first wonder I found you, Virgilia, wild sea-heart; And 'twas ages ago that we went asunder, Ages and worlds apart.Your luminous face and your hair's dark glory, I knew them of old by an ocean-stream, In a far, first world now turned to story, Now faded back to dream.”

  Edwin Markham (1852–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Our ways go wide and I know not whither, But my song will search through the worlds for you, Till the Seven Seas waste and the Seven Stars wither, And the dream of the heart comes true.I am out to the roads and the long, long questing, On dark tides driven, on great winds blown: I pass the runs of the world, unresting, I sail to the unknown.”

  Edwin Markham (1852–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As we go star-stilled in the mystic garden, All the prose of this life run there to rhyme, How eagerly then will the poor heart pardon All of these hurts of Time!Ah, yes, in that hour of our souls dream-driven, In that high, white hour, O my wild sea-bride, The tears and the years will be all forgiven, … And all be justified.”

  Edwin Markham (1852–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Recall the word you gave: to count your way across the depths of this arid world, where you would yoke the waves, and lay a bed of shining pearls! I dream it every night: the ringing of the pail, the motes of sand dislodged, the shucking, quick and bright; the twinned and cast-off shells reveal a single heart of white.”

  Joanna Newsom (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Boat drinks. Waitress, I need two more boat drinks. Then I'm headin south 'fore my dream shrinks. I gotta go where it's warm.”

  Jimmy Buffett (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “These nymphs I would perpetuate. So clear Their light carnation, that it floats in the air Heavy with tufted slumbers. Was it a dream I loved?”

  Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My dream is a world without religion, with real morality and one standard for men and women, poor and rich. A world with no war, with equality and justice between genders and classes, real freedom and democracy. That would be to finish with patriarchy and capitalism and class, to have a really human society, to unveil the mind.”

  Nawal El Saadawi (1931–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Late at night, listening to the winter rain Recalling my youth — Was it only a dream? Was I really young once?”

  Ryōkan (1758–1831) said by 1831 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in One Robe, One Bowl : The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan (2006) edited by John Stevens, p. 71

• “A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.”

  Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.”

  Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If time is a fading dream Then it would be like a flower Even if destined to fall It would be all the more valuable in its transience.”

  Ayumi Hamasaki (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Kath, I've been looking all over for you. I mean't to say sorry. I mean, I'm really, really sorry. I honestly didn't mean to hit you the other day. I wouldn't dream of hitting a girl, and even if I did, I'd never want to hit you. I'm really, really sorry.”

  Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream...”

  Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Back in 2005, when I was Christopher Eccleston, we saw one of the largest increases on record, of CO2 in the atmosphere. Unless we keep the rise in global temperature to under 2 degrees, by the time I'm Daniel Radcliffe or wee Jimmy Crankie, I won't be able to save the planet. I won't be here to help you -- well I might, but I'll be that bloke who won Any Dream Will Do.”

  David Tennant (born 1971) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Live Earth concert 2007

• “Grieve not for me. … You and I shall smile together, so long as our two forms appear different in the maya-dream of God. Finally we shall merge as one in the Cosmic Beloved; our smiles shall be His smile, our unified song of joy vibrating throughout eternity to be broadcast to God-tuned souls!”

  Yukteswar Giri (1855–1936) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Yogananda reports that Yukteswar Giri spoke these words to him in person on 19 June 1936, more than three months after Yukteswar Giri's death.

• “In my view, there are no buddhas and no sentient beings, no ancient and no modern. Those who attain, attain without cultivation, without realization, without gain, and without loss, for them there is never anything else but reality. ‘Even if there is anything that goes beyond this, I would say that it is like a dream or a magical illusion.’ This is what I am saying.”

  Linji Yixuan (850–867) said by 867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream, Where immobile steel rims crack, And the ditch in the back roads stop, Could you find me? Would you kiss my eyes? To lay me down, In silence easy, To be born again. To be born again.”

  Van Morrison (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There's a dream where the contents are visible Where the poetic champions compose Will you breathe not a word of this secrecy, and Will you still be my special rose?”

  Van Morrison (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.”

  Van Morrison (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “(On his Emmy nomination) I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.”

  Will Arnett (born 1970) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Stars React to Emmy Nominations," Access Hollywood (2006)

• “No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation’s heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.”

  Daniel O'Connell (1775–1847) first seen 1831 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Bishop Doyle (1831), quoted in O’Connell Correspondence, Vol IV, Letter No. 1860

• “I've always dreamed that love would be effortless Like a petal falling to the ground; a dreamer following his dream.”

  Kelly Clarkson (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Thus life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When o’er the nursing sod, The shadows broke and soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God.”

  Langdon Smith (1858–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “She goes into her room and disappears. Before I went to the war we slept in the same bed. We used to lie down side by side, so as to be annihilated in unconsciousness, or to go and dream somewhere else. Commonplace life has shipwrecks worse than in Shakespearean dramas. For man and wife — to sleep, to die.) But since I came back we separate ourselves with a wall.”

  Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Most of people talk, we do things. They plan, we achieve. They hesitate, we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. Dubai is a living example of that”

  Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We strive to eradicate the commercial borders and obstacles between Arab countries so that we may achieve the dream of economic unity because political unity amongst Arabs has become a distant fantasy.”

  Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.”

  Michael Bloomberg (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America — and, indeed, with its negotiating partners of the Six — is unavoidable. Iran simply cannot be permitted to fulfill a dream of imperial rule in a region of such importance to the rest of the world.”

  Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Next Steps With Iran" in The Washington Post (31 July 2006), p. A15

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