Dreaming Quotes

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.
Ai Weiwei

Moment, Point, Week

With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.
Melissa Rosenberg

Through, Everyone, Rather

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fun, Book, Writing

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.
Azar Nafisi

Work, Great, Best

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
Frederick Henry Hedge

Men, Power, Creative

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.
Brandon Routh

Cool, Job, Thinking

There's some things that you learn as you're shooting, and as you're editing that are key, because when you start you don't have the brain that can finish it. You don't really know what it is, and that's the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you're dreaming of having.
Mike Mills

Job, Brain, Learn

Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
Aaron Carter

True, Greatest, Feelings

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.
Brit Marling

Morning, Two, Until

My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.
Kristi Yamaguchi

Experience, Impossible, Dream

Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.
Emmitt Smith

Life, Mind, Real

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.
Emmitt Smith

Life, Dreams, Character

People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being.
Karen Russell

Good, Older, Culture

Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock band. I was dreaming of like corporate lunches and just like, and I'm not really joking. Like the whole idea to me was really appealing.
Carrie Brownstein

Experience, Rock, Whole

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
Angela Carter

Together, Dark, Same

I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.
Judy Collins

Dreams, Past, Give

Right now, I think robots are where it's at. And yes, I'm biased. Robots and space, because with home rocket kits and Lego Mindstorm sets, people can get involved. I was raised on Transformers and GoBots, so I can't imagine what kids who are building real robots are dreaming about.
Daniel H. Wilson

Home, Real, Kids

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
Elizabeth McGovern

Work, End, Grow

I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes.
Shalom Harlow

Home, Find, Normal

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.
Zebulon Pike

Return, Informed, Wished

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.
Simone Schwarz-Bart

Reality, Dark, Sun

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
Amy Lowell

Everything, Easy, Quit

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.
Petra Nemcova

Freedom, Travel, Learn

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
Anna Neagle

Solitude, Next, Enjoyment

If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and your brain have a reaction to that trauma. If you're not dreaming about it, something's probably wrong.
Sebastian Junger

Mind, Brain, Wrong

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.
Renny Harlin

Government, Finance, Serious

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.
Milla Jovovich

Age, Family, Fun

When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.
Sue Wicks

Smile, Living, Young

I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.
Peter Diamandis

Good, Hope, Big

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
Ralph Bunche

Fight, Everything, Country

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