I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
Jackie Collins

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
Edwin Land

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Lane Allen

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Gaston Bachelard

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
Eldridge Cleaver

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
Gianni Versace

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
Nolan Ryan

A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written.
Edwin Louis Cole

When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.
Ice T

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
Umberto Eco

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
Umberto Eco

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
Margaret Atwood

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
Sherman Alexie

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you dream and you believe, you can do it.
Puff Daddy

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.
Arthur Miller

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Desiderius Erasmus

I got a chance to have my dream come true, and I wanted to make sure I made the decision as to when I dropped my last album. If I don't feel like this album is an incredible piece of work, then I'm cool with the albums I've done. I don't have to put out another album.
Puff Daddy

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
J. G. Ballard