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There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
— William Shatner
If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.
— Orison Swett Marden
A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
— Orlando Bloom
I hope my children just grow up happy and pursue their dreams. I mean, that's all I can ask of them.
— Ivanka Trump
I love the idea of being part of a campaign that captures the spirit of New York and the stories of women here, passionate about their dreams.
— Rita Ora
Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.
— Rita Ora
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
— Peter Diamandis
After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.
— Peter Diamandis
I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.
— Alanis Morissette
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
— Samuel Butler
I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.
— Christian Louboutin
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
— Suze Orman
You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.
— Suze Orman
Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.
— Suze Orman
I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.
— Drew Barrymore
Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.
— Nicolas Cage
One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'
— Nicolas Cage
I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
— Tori Amos
A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.
— Pierce Brosnan
I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.
— Shakira
I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature.
— Shakira
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.
— Michael Leunig
My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
— Ziggy Marley
I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.
— Gary Johnson
I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.
— Sia
Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams.
— Mike Birbiglia
I like 'Donnie Darko' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep. 
— Mike Birbiglia
This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
— Howard Schultz
I just got tired of waiting for things to happen through other people when so many other people are taking chances on following their dreams.
— Christina Milian
Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, and then marooning them there. No one else conjures the phantasmagoric and shifting morality of dreams - that fascinating and frightening aspect of having something that seems to represent good become evil - in the way this master Japanese animator does.
— Elvis Mitchell
Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.
— John C. Maxwell
All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.
— Carrie Underwood
What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.
— Virginia Postrel
As far back as the 1800s, people were moving to Florida to make their dreams come true.
— Rick Scott
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.
— Junot Diaz
I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.
— Junot Diaz
I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
— Octavia Spencer
If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams - not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams.
— Jeb Bush
I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.
— Annie Lennox
Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.
— Carrie Fisher
I love dreams.
— Brad Feld
Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don't think you can make your kids' dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.
— Billy Crystal
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history.
— Robert Dallek
Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.
— John Malkovich
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
— Jesse Jackson
You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.
— Jesse Jackson
For me they are no different, reality and dreams.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
— Naveen Jain
I didn't move to Nashville with any inkling or dreams of getting a record deal. I didn't have those stars in my eyes. I just wanted to take a break, relax, and figure out songwriting.
— Maren Morris
It is the police of America who are on the front lines, who are on the streets, who are in the daily contact with American citizens, who translate the dreams of American citizens when they succeed and frustrate the dreams when they fail.
— Janet Reno
Our challenge is to remind ourselves that we do have common interest, common grounds, and common dreams.
— Janet Reno
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
— Elie Wiesel
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
— Dick Cavett
I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.
— Kevin Bacon
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams. 
— Eric Hoffer
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
— Michael Korda
You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is what everyone in the world has dreams of when they think about New York. And I thought, 'My God, I'm in Heaven. I'll be dancing down Fifth Avenue like Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.'
— Frank McCourt
I'm living out my dreams and I love what I do.
— Ashley Tisdale
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
— Doris Lessing
Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
— Gavin Newsom
I will teach people not only how to identify their goals and dreams, but subsequently give them the tools to make those dreams a reality.
— Jillian Michaels
There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.
— Misty Copeland
I think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible.
— Misty Copeland
Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
— Nathan Myhrvold
The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.
— Juliette Lewis
There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.
— Tyler Perry
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
— James McBride
We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.
— James McBride
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
— Aeschylus
So much of Sue Sylvester, the angry woman, came from that part of my life, wanting to crush other people's dreams and judging others so harshly, which is always just a way of deflecting your own self-judgment.
— Jane Lynch
My preparation for roles are less about the character's profession than who they are, what their dreams are, and in what way are they childish.
— Stellan Skarsgard
Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
— Ira Glass
America's legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the United States from all over the globe to pursue their dreams.
— Charles B. Rangel
It feels good being a restaurant owner because it's part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.
— DJ Khaled
As a foreigner, I used to think all of Michigan was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of burning buildings, trashed cars, abandoned factories and broken dreams. But now I know that's just Detroit. It's only the Democrat-controlled areas that are a disaster.
— Milo Yiannopoulos
But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.
— Demetri Martin
I didn't come from a lot. I had a lot of love and support from my family, but as far as money and that type of thing, I didn't really have any of that. All I did was follow my dreams. If my fans take anything from me, I hope it would be that.
— Keke Palmer
I have the most beautiful souls in my life supporting me and helping me to follow my dreams. I love them more than I can ever express in words.
— Bindi Irwin
God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
— Victoria Osteen
I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was it was just these amazing opportunities that happened. 
— Maisie Williams
When I first set out to do it, I wanted to be a working actor, and now it seems like it's superseded even my dreams.
— Michael Pena
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
— Michael Bloomberg
Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
— Michael Bloomberg
To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she's not forgotten in this crazy world - that's why I got involved with Frum Tha Ground Up.
— Alicia Keys
My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
— Derek Jeter
My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.
— Derek Jeter
In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
— Monica Bellucci
That always has been one of my dreams, to be able to appeal to a bunch of people.
— Trombone Shorty
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers who carried out the marathon bombing, was a non-practicing Muslim who only became an Islamist militant once his dreams of becoming an Olympic boxer faded. At the time of the attack, he was unemployed.
— Peter L. Bergen
I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.
— Ashton Eaton
In our marriage, the success of our athletic dreams comes before everything. 'Hey do you want to watch a movie?' 'No, I have a hard workout tomorrow.'
— Ashton Eaton
One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
— Zendaya
We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
— Narendra Modi
For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.
— Mariella Frostrup
If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People's dreams don't come true like that.
— Ronda Rousey
What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.
— Hill Harper
My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.
— Debbie Reynolds
In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.
— Steve Carell
I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.
— Diane von Furstenberg
The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.
— Damien Chazelle
It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
— Damien Chazelle
I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
— Damien Chazelle
We all get lost along the way, but hopefully we figure out some sort of path. It helps if you can imagine the process as well as the goal. Those kinds of dreams are easier to achieve.
— Annette Bening
It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.
— Kaley Cuoco
I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.
— Kaley Cuoco
Your targets can only be realized on the basis of dreams.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with anxiety; my mood is irritable. My night dreams grow wild with unconscious invention.
— Pete Hamill
I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.
— Parker Posey
It's great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
— Nick Saban
My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.
— Lee Daniels
I love watching people's dreams come true.
— Jessica Simpson
I've been blessed to live a lot of dreams.
— Trisha Yearwood
The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
— Rafael dos Anjos
Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
— Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.
— Steve Erickson
'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.
— Steve Erickson
You can't take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different.
— Kendall Jenner
Now I know we have the power to incite change through the Internet - keep sharing our stories, our dreams, and our struggles.
— Ty Dolla Sign
I hope that the restaurant I go to will have buffalo chicken fingers. I hope that one day I can work with Matt Damon. I have big and little dreams, and they're all equally important to me. A life without buffalo chicken fingers, I don't know if I would want that life. Even if it meant I got to work with Matt Damon. Everything has its worth.
— Jenny Slate
Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps.
— Scott Adams
To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.
— Michael Dirda
I've had dreams about tricks.
— Shaun White
People with financial plans are much more likely to feel prepared, even in tumultuous times. They're more likely to feel that their dreams and goals are secure. And, oh yes, they do actually save significantly more.
— Jean Chatzky
Carrie Underwood was just a small-town Oklahoma girl with big dreams in 2005 when she competed on the fourth season of 'American Idol.' She is one of the few true 'American Idol' success stories and went on to have incredible career success.
— Fabrizio Moreira
For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.
— Fabrizio Moreira
The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was... a simpler time of contentment and patriotism.
— Dana Perino
There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.
— Siri Hustvedt
The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.
— Siri Hustvedt
In my dreams, whatever I am doing, I look down to see if I have prosthetics. It sets my time frame in my dream, I think. I'd have these dreams that I am running and launching myself, and I look down and see that I have prosthetics. I have a lot of those, where I do great, amazing things with my prosthetics.
— Amy Purdy
I still have dreams in which someone is coming to the door.
— Alek Wek
It doesn't happen every day, but many nights my dreams are like a movie. I don't see normal movement - I see things in very complicated shots. That's why I do remember many of them.
— Penelope Cruz
I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I'm like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.
— Mary Roach
We all have those dreams we've never let go of. But believe it or not, sometimes a job that we're not that keen on can help us achieve those dreams or goals.
— John Rampton
Spielberg read the 'Understudy' and decided that was the voice he wanted to write 'Smash.' He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams.
— Theresa Rebeck
To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up.
— Graydon Carter
I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
— Aaron Sorkin
Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.
— John Battelle
My microphone went out in the 2009 Tony Awards. It was my big moment, and I was so excited to perform and lead the cast; I sang 'Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat.' Every actor dreams of standing front and center on the Tony Awards, and I start to sing, and you hear this crackling. I had no idea what to do - were they going to stop a live telecast?
— Tituss Burgess
At drama school, we were taught to write down your dreams and carry them around in your wallet with you, and they'll come true, but I didn't do that.
— Lily James
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination. A man may feel as old as his years yet as young as his dreams.
— Shimon Peres
Just like in rugby, the pinnacle was playing for the All Blacks. That was always a massive thing. But you never speak it outwardly because it can sound stupid. But if you don't have massive dreams, you might as well stay in bed.
— Sonny Bill Williams
I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.
— Walter Kirn
In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.
— Robbie Robertson
I credit NTI, truthfully, with everything as far as where my head is and what my goals are and dreams are. I would say it was probably one of the most influential moments of my life, being there.
— John Krasinski
The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.
— Jeff Buckley
Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.
— Jon Favreau
I want to see the next Reagan. I want somebody who brings out the good in Americans and challenges us to aspire to that North Star, someone who wants to empower our families and individuals and communities and let them be free to achieve their dreams. That's what's going to make this country again.
— Bill Flores
I have those dreams that you can't put into words.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
I have goals and aspirations, and I believe that you can go after your dreams, and it can work if you have someone there that's supporting you.
— Tia Mowry
Obviously, fans are the beginning and end for any artist. The minute your fans embrace you and accept you, you begin this ride of being in music and having a career doing something you love. You get to go be a kid and live out your dreams by performing music for fans who come out to your shows.
— Luke Bryan
Revelations are conveyed in a variety of ways, including, for example, dreams, visions, conversations with heavenly messengers, and inspiration. Some revelations are received immediately and intensely; some are recognized gradually and subtly.
— David A. Bednar
My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.
— Richard Simmons
I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.
— Martha Stewart
It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
— Forest Whitaker
Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.
— Steve Harvey
When your dreams are close to coming true, it does not feel real at first.
— Henrikh Mkhitaryan
It's not called the Theatre of Dreams for nothing.
— Henrikh Mkhitaryan
It's a weird place to be in because my dreams in life have surpassed what I could have ever imagined. I just hope I can continue to write stand-up, but I would say my big dream is to build an amazing family. It's so boring and cheesy, but that's my focus.
— Tig Notaro
You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.
— Channing Tatum
I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.
— Benjamin Clementine
Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.
— Robin S. Sharma
In dreams begins responsibility.
— William Butler Yeats
I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
— Yvonne Strahovski
At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.
— Katherine Dunn
Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had ups and downs with my health that often tested me as it does many people. I've never hidden the fact that my health was sometimes not on my side, but I've never let it define me or deter me from my dreams.
— Jessie J
I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?
— Jessie J
Many entrepreneurs think that cash is the ultimate solution to all of their problems: the one thing standing between them and their dreams.
— Jon Oringer
I always had dreams. I knew I wanted to have money to buy things at the flea market. That's worked out well.
— Debi Mazar
The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.
— Dick Cheney
All my childhood dreams have come true.
— Lucas Till
I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.
— Lupita Nyong'o
I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
— Miley Cyrus
I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.
— Nicole Kidman
One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.
— Loni Love
It seems like in the beginning of my flight, the space dreams were rare. And now, almost 150 days into it, the Earth dreams are more of the rare ones.
— Scott Kelly
I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
— Taron Egerton
When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.
— Alber Elbaz
For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring and investigating the problems, the questions, and the mysteries about what it means to be human that vex me most, that keep me up at night, and that, when I finally fall asleep, insinuate themselves into my dreams.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.
— Gael Garcia Bernal
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
— Harlan Coben
Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
— Catherine Deneuve
I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.
— Hunter Hayes
I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.
— Tina Fey
I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep.
— Tina Fey
If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
— Orhan Pamuk
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
— William S. Burroughs
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
I just feel really grateful that I can pursue my dreams and also reach people in ways that I never expected.
— Chrissy Metz
I have been able to help my friends and people that I believe in pay their bills and stay afloat in L.A. while following their dreams.
— Chrissy Metz
I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.
— Lenny Kravitz
Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
— Abdullah II of Jordan
The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.
— Domhnall Gleeson
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
— LL Cool J
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.
— LL Cool J
I'm very tired, but this is what every filmmaker dreams about: that their $15 million, under-the-radar film is now being seen by so many people.
— Morten Tyldum
I have lots of ambitions. I'd love to do theatre. I'd like to be in 'Tea With Mussolini 2' I'd like to touch Meryl Streep - which would involve being with her in some exotic location. I have lots of fantastical dreams. 
— Miranda Hart
People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.
— Tracy Chapman
There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.
— Shahid Khan
My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams, and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way.
— Mike Colter
I've had dreams - there were three things I wanted to do during my career. I did them during my first year of Grand Prix.
— Charlotte Dujardin
I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.
— Angela Duckworth
I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.
— Sue Monk Kidd
If ever a car was created by designers with dreams of grandeur, it had to be the 1958 Buick Limited: the heftiest, highest-priced and most opulent monster ever to hit the street in the '50s.
— Clive Cussler
I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great sports documentaries do - 'Hoop Dreams,' 'When We Were Kings' - they're human dramas first, sport second, if at all.
— Asif Kapadia
When companies are private, founders can share more about their future dreams with investors; report less; and the shares are illiquid, constraining short-term changes in valuation.
— Aileen Lee
There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.
— Aileen Lee
A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.
— Aileen Lee
Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.
— Corey Taylor
My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.
— Liza Minnelli
'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.
— Christopher Lee
I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.
— Sarah Silverman
My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
— Dane Cook
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.
— Sebastian Coe
I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.
— Lois Lowry
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
— Erich Fromm
I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.
— Alison Sweeney
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
— Ingmar Bergman
That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful.
— Xavier Dolan
New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.
— Yayoi Kusama
When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled.
— Tucker Max
Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.
— Kelly Rowland
When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.
— John Banville
It's crazy how the world evolves and the audience gives you an opportunity to really grow and live out your dreams.
— Luis Fonsi
Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.
— Hal Sparks
Cyclops, that's like this primal fear. I had dreams for years that the Cyclops was a small creature living in our huge fish tank at home, and at night, it was going to grow to full size and come after me.
— Henry Selick
You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
— Victoria Moran
I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.
— Marian Keyes
A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'
— Joe Jonas
The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.
— Ralph Marston
I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
— Kailash Satyarthi
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
— Imelda Marcos
I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.
— Enrique Iglesias
To me, what I love about the draft is; first, you see the young men who are realizing their dreams that they've worked so hard for. That's a pretty cool thing. You saw the emotion from some of these guys the other day. And then, the second thing is this total sense of hope and optimism. And, I think that's great for everybody.
— Roger Goodell
That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college. 
— Adam DeVine
Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'
— Karl Malone
So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.
— Danny DeVito
I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
— Jon Stewart
To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true.
— Rickey Henderson
Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.
— Junior Seau
Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.
— Brian May
In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
— Hamish Bowles
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
— Joseph Barbera
Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.
— Judd Nelson
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
— James A. Michener
'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.
— Tommy Hilfiger
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
— Paracelsus
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
— Paracelsus
'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.
— Kim Edwards
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
— Judy Garland
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.
— Eugene Cernan
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
— Antonio Tabucchi
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
— Alice Hoffman
My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.
— Diane Keaton
Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
— Kalpana Chawla
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
— Elias Canetti
Dreams are a scientific fact.
— Robyn Hitchcock
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
— Augusten Burroughs
An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.
— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Don't give up your dreams.
— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Everybody's a dreamer.
— John Lithgow
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
— Victoria Woodhull
I do write all the time about - you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It's not impossible. Name it.
— Diana Nyad
I would have dreams all the time about me playing in the NFL. Every day I woke up, I said to myself, you know, I'm going to work hard, you know, this day to get to that next level.
— Michael Oher
Singing for a documentary that benefits the underprivileged remains one of my biggest dreams.
— Arijit Singh
I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
— Patricia McBride
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
— John Astin
What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
— Tamora Pierce
It's hard because people always say, 'Follow your dreams,' but it's not a perfect world, and things don't always work out. But you've just got to work hard, and you can't take things for granted.
— Stephen Colletti
We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.
— Katie Holmes
We live in America where each and every person has the equal opportunity to take their iPhone or a smartphone and create something and put it online and have the equal ability to blow up and be successful. It's a tool I hope we inspire tons of people to pick up and go after their dreams.
— Todrick Hall
I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
— Debi Thomas
Dreaming men are haunted men.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
I never lost my dreams in my 20s, and I know that sounds corny, but it's incredibly important to never let go of what you really want in your life.
— Juan Pablo Di Pace
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
— Raoul Vaneigem