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“When the world wide war is over and done And the dream of peace comes through We'll all be drinking some free bubble up And eating some rainbow stew.”
Merle Haggard (1937–2016) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rainbow Stew", on Rainbow Stew Live at Anaheim Stadium (July 1981) · Performance on YouTube
“I never chose money, I always chose people. I wanted to be around people who knew more than I did. I think that’s why I never fell in love with an actor. They never seemed to know any more than I did. I wanted to be with writers… My idea of a dream man was Thornton Wilder.”
Lillian Gish (1893–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the other hand, some people say: “Who is this Chiz Escudero? So young, and living in just a humble townhouse in Quezon City. Who does he think he is to dream so boldly, to have such grand ambitions?!”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must raise the quality of government service. We must work together and help one another to forge into reality our collective dream of a progressive, developed, orderly, and happy nation, where justice prevails and peace reigns! A country where every Filipino is treated equally, where no one is left behind.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Politics is not my end-all and be-all. I don't eat politics for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And when I sleep, I don't dream politics.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tita Valderama, "The Phenomenon of Chiz Escudero", Newsbreak, 2007 July-September, p. 21.
“You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.”
Gregory Peck (1916–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The ArtSlut's Guide to Makin' It — As a Visual Artist‎ (2007) by Barb Benson
“You can't just stand and say to yourself, 'OK, right now I'm the best. That's it. No more working.' If you're a good player you have to be working harder and harder. This is not just my goal, it's my team goal. We can improve more and we can probably be even better than last year. My dream is to be the best.”
Alexander Ovechkin (born 1985) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Helene Elliott (October 16, 2008) "Ovechkin Is Good for NHL, Bad for Opposing Goalies", Los Angeles Times.
“I don't think about (being) the face of the NHL - I just enjoy my time right now. Playing in the NHL was my dream come true and I'm playing with great players. I feel trust and I'm happy because I'm having the time of my life.”
Alexander Ovechkin (born 1985) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kevin McGran (October 28, 2006) "'Having the time of my life' - Capitals' Alexander Ovechkin says he loves to deliver hits and isn't averse to taking a few, either Rangers' Lundqvist's experiencing problems keeping the …
“My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.”
Alexander Ovechkin (born 1985) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Canadian Press (October 27, 2006) "More than just the next superstar - Ovechkin's zest for life contagious with Capitals", The Record (Kitchner, Ontario, Canada), p. D2.
“When I was little I definitely was sad a lot and I used to dream. I used to get these obsessive crushes on non-available guys. Not any more, but that was my life for a long time.”
Molly Shannon (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But then to wake and find it flown, The dream of happiness destroyed, To find myself unloved, alone, What tongue can speak the dreary void? A heart whence warm affections flow, Creator, thou hast given to me, And am I only thus to know How sweet the joys of love would be?”
Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am too close for him to dream of me. I don't flutter over him, don't flee him beneath the roots of trees. I am too close. The caught fish doesn't sing with my voice. The ring doesn't roll from my finger. I am too close.”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And only we few who remain unstripped of fur, untorn from bone, unplucked of soaring feathers, esteemed in all our quills, scales, tusks, and horns, and in whatever else that ingenious protein has seen fit to clothe us with, we, my lord, are your dream, which finds you innocent for now.”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always loved the original Oliver! film, especially the songs, so to be playing the role alongside Ron Moody, who played Fagin in the original version, feels like a dream. But every day of the past year has felt so fantastic, so brilliant, it seems unreal.”
Joseph McManners (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there is a single most deplorable intellectual failing on the conservative side, it lies in reducing every question of law, constitution, culture and society to a question of economics — the fundamental error of the Marxists, which nobody on the left would now dream of committing.”
Roger Scruton (1944–2020) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'The Tories will stay lost until they relearn how to be conservative', The Sunday Times (13 August 2017)
“O harmony! thou tenderest nurse of pain, If that thy note's sweet magic e'er can heal Griefs which the patient spirit oft may feel, Oh! let me listen to thy songs again; Till memory her fairest tints shall bring; Hope wake with brighter eye, and listening seem With smiles to think on some delightful dream.”
William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Music", in Poetical Works, vol. 1 (1855)
“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.”
Don DeLillo (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At an ink-stained desk, with his chin cupped in his hands, Titus was contemplating, as in a dream, the chalk-marks on the blackboard. They represented a sum in short division, but might as well have been some hieroglyphic message from a moonstruck prophet to his lost tribe a thousand years ago.”
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For positive social change to happen we need to envision a different reality, dream new blueprints for it, formulate new strategies for coping in it.”
Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The means are at hand to fulfill the age-old dream: poverty can now be abolished. How long shall we ignore this underdeveloped nation in our midst? How long shall we look the other way while our fellow human beings suffer? How long?”
Michael Harrington (1928–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“..a member of anarchist and revolutionary circles, attracted in turn by violent action and by dream, before resolving to dedicate him to painting. [describing Boccioni ]”
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In the 'Preface' of Boccioni's show at Ca' Pesaro, July 1910; as quoted in Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism, by Christine Poggi, Princeton University Press, 2009, p. 107
“Then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.”
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) first seen 1662 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: September 29, 1662
“I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.”
Juliette Binoche (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Leave a message, don't leave a message. live, die, it's all the same dream.”
Ben Elton (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Look, Maria. I know what you're thinking. I don't bring girls that look like you home to the Palace of Wisdom. But that doesn't mean you can't dream about it.”
John Hennigan (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“America is, for me, an aspiration, a philosophy, a way of being, a dream.”
Craig Ferguson (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Flags, rags, ferryboats, scimitars and scarves every precious dream and vision underneath the stars You climbed on the ladder with the wind in your sails you came like a comet blazing your trail too high, too far, too soon You saw the whole of the moon!”
Mike Scott (Scottish musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(Woman to psychic) Which do you think is the more impossible dream: the perfect man or the perfect handbag?”
Nicole Hollander (1939–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life — give me life until the end, That at the very top of being, The battle-spirit shouting in my blood, Out of the reddest hell of the fight I may be snatched and flung Into the everlasting lull, The immortal, incommunicable dream.”
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All over the world, the nation, in a dream Of money and love and sport, hangs at the paps Of well-being, and so Goes fattening, mellowing, dozing, rotting down Into a rich deliquium of decay.”
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Coming up close Everything sounds like welcome home. Come home and oh, by the way, Don't you know that I could make a dream that's barely half-awake come true? I wanted to say — but anything I could have said I felt somehow that you already knew.”
Aimee Mann (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some men enjoy the constant strife Of days with work and worry rife, But that is not my dream of life: I think such men are crazy. For me, a life with worries few, A job of nothing much to do, Just pelf enough to see me through: I fear that I am lazy.”
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That [song] was about an execution I saw on tele, that was an ad I saw on tele. I got this video of an execution, and I just saw it, and I was watching it one night, and I had a dream about it, and I woke up and thought, 'Oh yeah, that's pretty cool', and I wrote a song about it.”
Daniel Johns (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the day I was born, Said my father, said he I've an elegant legacy waiting for ye. Tis a rhyme for your lips And a song for your heart To sing it whenever the world falls apart. Look, look, look to the rainbow Follow it over the hill and stream Look, look, look to the rainbow Follow the fellow who follows a dream.”
Yip Harburg (1896–1981) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Look to the Rainbow", in Finian's Rainbow (1946) - Petula Clark version
“Bring all the spaces together And all the silences ever Bring all the spaces together Come close again Be my pause before the end I miss you, oh, like a fading dream And I have a feeling you know what I mean”
Leslie Feist (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Descend, descend, Urania, speak To men in their own tongue! Leave not the breaking heart to break Because thine own is strong. This is the law, in dream and deed, That heaven must walk on earth! O, shine upon the humble creed That holds the heavenly birth.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Secret Inn : 'The Kingdom is Within You'" in Master Mind Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3 (December 1914), p. 99
“Like the dawn upon a dream Slowly through the scented gloom Crept once more the ruddy gleam O'er the friendly nursery room. There, before our waking eyes, Large and ghostly, white and dim, Dreamed the Flower that never dies, Opening wide its rosy rim.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Critics, you have been so kind, I would not have you think me blind To all the wisdom that you preach; Yet before I strictlier run In straiter lines of chiselled speech, Give me one more hour, just one Hour to hunt the fairy gleam That flutters through this childish dream.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It mocks me as it flies, I know: All too soon the gleam will go; Yet I love it and shall love My dream that brooks no narrower bars Than bind the darkening heavens above, My Jack o'Lanthorn of the stars: Then, I'll follow it no more, I'll light the lamp: I'll close the door.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You will be one of the 10% of people out there who are in that bracket because you've succeeded, 90% of people don't live their dream, they talk about it. We've all been in the pub when your mate says 'I'm going to do this' and you go back a year later and he's sitting in the same chair saying the same thing. We've all been there or know someone who's been there.”
Paul Oakenfold (born 1963) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tony Blair Steals Oakey’s Parking Space. Trackitdown.net, October 12, 2007.
“Throughout all the years and in everything we do, we have focused most of all on the development of human capacity, beginning with our own professional staff, and leveraging their expertise to enrich the Arab community. We have embraced the concept of the ‘knowledge worker’ and have sought to empower our people and the Arab world’s people to dream, to imagine, and to create.”
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.”
Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron - and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring - embody the American dream of Eden.”
Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I saw a dream, Earth safe and green. No hunger no war, water so clean. I’ll work for the world that I saw, set my mind and say insha Allah.”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This was once revealed to me in a dream.”
Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.”
Rufus Wainwright (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.”
Masanobu Fukuoka (1913–2008) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Road Back to Nature (1984; English translation 1987, p. 360).
“It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wish I could promise I'll Be there when you dream I wish that when you spoke to me I'd know what you mean But you can't bring me comfort By filling up my eyes They don't stay dry Hard as I try Can't figure why Made I this choice”
Happy Rhodes (born 1965) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: If Wishes Were Horses, How Beggars Would Ride" - Live performance (29 June 1999)
“I dream of being able to score another goal against England... this time with the right hand.”
Diego Maradona (1960–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Less than a month before he died, referencing the hand of God. Quoted in Hannigan, Mary. "Funny old games: The sporting year in a year like no other", The Irish Times. 30 December 2020. See section titled "Diego".