Dreaming Quotations

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

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.

I think the best thing I ever did was never tell anyone I wanted to be an actor. I find if you tell people what you're dreaming about, they'll usually come up with lots of reasons to not chase your dreams.

I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future.

I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.

The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a good motherhood as a child; always wanting to meet a good old country boy and having someone to love as much as I love my husband Roland and having a little boy that is a mixture of the both of us.

Winning at Monaco feels unbelievable, because it's such a special race and it's also my home race. My first memories were of watching Ayrton Senna here with his yellow helmet, and one day dreaming to win the Monaco GP.

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.

People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway.

Seriously, I dreamed that I was in my husband's dream, watching what he was dreaming about. Like, I was in his dream as an onlooker. It was so weird that I immediately wrote it down in the middle of the night. In the morning, it still sounded cool.

These new young politicians have given us the confidence to start dreaming again to believe there is a better politics, and a better future for Italy in general.

'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

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.

I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.

Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.

Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.

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.

You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.

My cross county coach in high school made a big impact on me as a athlete. I have been dreaming of having a cross county team to work with and have that impact on them as athletes and young adults.

-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets Id roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity,

Last year, watching this on TV, this is kind of what I was dreaming of, playing a night match at the Open again,

Since I was about eight years old I've been dreaming of this day, it is very emotional, I'm overwhelmed,

But those who are pro-Saddam are very difficult to reach agreement with, because they are still dreaming to bring back the dictatorship, which is of course refused by the big majority of the Iraqi people.

I felt like I had to do it. We really wanted this bad and the girls who were with us last year really wanted us to do it. I've been dreaming about winning state. I couldn't sleep the night before the game because that was all I could think about.

I have been dreaming of playing in the National Hockey League all of my life, and to get one step closer to that goal is special.

Having a project to move on to together definitely makes this process easier. We've been dreaming of doing this for quite some time.

Guys around here grow up dreaming of playing in the SEC. But that is not a realistic option for everybody. Huntingdon is giving these guys a chance to continue playing and get a good education.

Her work ethic has everything to do with this, ... Dreaming is the first step. Then you have to work you tail off to realize that dream. That's what a lot of people don't get. They just see the result. The harder you work the luckier you get, and she is getting really lucky.

We've fallen in love with the characters and the people and we're dreaming about what's going to happen to them. It's really a fun experience.

I looked up in the stands and saw my mother and father crying. I can't describe what it really felt like. It was just pure joy. This is something I've been dreaming of all of my life.

My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.

My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can't live without dreaming - as we can't live without sleep. We are 'conscious' beings for only a limited period of time, then we sink back into sleep - the 'unconscious.' It is nourishing, in ways we can't fully understand.

I watch it every year. It's something growing up as a kid you watched, never dreaming you'd actually have a chance at it.ÊJust to be there, to haveÊJason White and LarryÊFitzgerald sitting next to you and think, 'Wow, what great company I'm in' --Êeven if IÊdidn't win --Êthat would be a great accomplishment.

I was dreaming that this would be the way I'd find out - that she'd call me in the middle of the night like this. She sounded great. I just want to thank everyone who's prayed and given us support through this time, and we're obviously looking forward to some private time with Jill.

That could happen. But I hope not in my lifetime. I was born dreaming of monarchies. I want to die that way.

Playing for both teams is a dream come true for me. The first dream I had was to play for the national team. But then when I got older, I dreamed of playing in the NHL, too. I'm playing both right now. The Olympics, I'm really excited for that. That's what I've been dreaming about. It's hard to compare which is more fun because both are such huge things in my life.

I will be very calm because I am dreaming this so I will wake up in five minutes in Sarajevo. I'm dreaming that I'm here on this stage and dreaming that I'm here in Berlin.

People are getting in trouble by buying out of their price range. They are dreaming really big. That could be a disaster later.

I think I was joking when I said that. I started dreaming when I got to college. It shows you anything can happen.

I think it's a great opportunity for anyone who's dreaming of, is in the process of building or has already built a home. This is a great opportunity for them to learn from the experts. If you want to take a little bit of this lifestyle home, there's all kinds of furniture and accessories here to make any room be your own little lodge.

We have the experience and the drive to win it all. We have been dreaming since we were five years old of carrying home a state championship.

Those are the moments I grew up dreaming about when I was playing in my front yard.

I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.

The Americans and the European Union are dreaming if they think they can force us to change our positions.

Most kids grew up in the Twin Cities dreaming of being Kirby Puckett.

That's the one thing from Dr. King's speech that we have not done. We have not moved out of the dreaming part to the planning part.

We've been dreaming of this day since 1997. This is just an amazing feeling.

We were lying on our backs in the water and chatting away and dreaming of what this play might be like in performance,

When you're in school growing up, you have teachers who sit and read to these kids, and what better opportunity to sit and read a story - one that's not fake. It's not a dreaming story. It's not Harry Potter. It's a real-life story, with glorious moments to horrific moments, including the frostbite - and what better way to show kids their potential than with a real-life story?

That was my first dunk in four years, and it felt good. Hey, I've got a little bounce, a little something-something. The free throws were bigger. I just tried to take myself back home, back to my backyard by myself. You know how kids are always dreaming they're at the stripe with the game on the line? I was no different. I tried to go back there in my mind because if you think about the actual situation, you'll put too much pressure on yourself.

That was one of the big reasons I didn't want to go there. I've got a couple of buddies that play for LSU. They've been calling on the phone, but I haven't been answering. It's something I've been dreaming about. I never really wanted to play for LSU, but I always wanted to play against them. It will be a big game for me.

There are definitely times since I've been back that I just kind of look up and take five extra seconds before I serve. This is what I was dreaming of just a couple of years ago, to come back and feel this feeling again.

This project is awesome, ... It's what I've been dreaming about - having a show worthy of public consumption, which is educational and promotes some interest in the world around us.

When it was scheduled three years ago, we had no idea necessarily we'd be at this point. It worked out and we're certainly very happy for it. Some of these guys talked about dreaming about this in middle school, and for them to step up as seniors on their home field, it's special.

We?re dreaming of the day Sam opens his eyes.

We are confident we are not dreaming up this trend. We've researched and we feel like this is what people really want. The town homes are part of a whole community. The cohesiveness between all those different product types is very important to us.

We are always dreaming up ways to be more efficient. A lot of it is common sense.

When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

We thought it was going to happen, we've been dreaming it for 32 years,

Whatever you do, never stop dreaming.

We want to see our Dublin students become entrepreneurs, to be the creators and innovators we know they can be. Giving them this active experience will hopefully encourage them to keep dreaming and remembering that they can take any idea, build on it, and make it work.

What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift.

Why sit ye idly dreaming all the day,While the golden, precious hours flit away?See you not the day is waning, waning fast?That the morn's already vanished in the past?

We are approaching full employment and some employers are already dreaming up perks to attract the best talent.

At the very least, we want everything to go on hold for a while because there is this feeling that we're heading down a path in a way that we never, ever intended when we were 18 and dreaming of what life would be like.

I've been hoping and dreaming all my life to go into space. Now I actually have a shot of doing it.

I've been dreaming about this chance. It should be interesting. I just hope we live up to the expectations.

I've been dreaming about this since I started racing. I've lived for this moment. it was a very great race, the competition was stellar.

I've been dreaming about this since I was a little kid, since I was 8 years old. I'm just glad these dreams are starting to come true.

We watch a lot of film. I don't even know how much, but it's a lot. You go to bed dreaming about film.

You grow up dreaming about playing in the NHL and scoring your first goal, and it's definitely nice.

There is no quick fix for Kmart, and that's a problem given their financial situation, ... They really have to go through the process to figure out who their customer is, or could be. They kind of just sat there and let everybody eat at their market from all sides. They have to find their new relevance. They may be dreaming of a mass market that doesn't exist for them anymore.

Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life.

Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry: 'Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry

Once you've been wrapped in water a bit, your mind starts to slow down. You're between dreaming and being awake, and all of the little things go out the window." ()

That's when I'll start dreaming about what he might be capable of winning. Although in this game it doesn't pay to dream.

A lot of people have been dreaming and speculating. Our contribution is one of the pieces that will be necessary to make this work.

Ten years of dreaming and the flag is finally ours.

People can want and wish all they want to. Kevin Garnett is our guy. We don't plan on him going anywhere . There's no talks about him going anywhere. All those people that are hoping, wishing, wanting, tampering, writing, dreaming ? there's no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Pretty much nothing in time and space is as important as you think it is. Except, of course, dreaming and hugs.

Ever since summer, we have been dreaming big - Final Fours, pursue championships in everything we do. It's not a surprise to us because we have worked so hard all year and over the course of the years. We know we belong here.

First place is what I've been dreaming about since I was in second grade. I couldn't take another (finals) defeat. Every match I wrestled, I thought I could get beat.

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.

This administration dreams of controlling the whole world. By controlling this region, they are dreaming of dominating the whole world,

This is a book that every year gives adults the chance to become children again by dreaming about the ultimate gift.

I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

I knew Dick wasn't going to just be sending a box of Pampers. He'd be dreaming large about how to respond.

I must have been dreaming about Albie. I spoke in a Liverpool accent all the time. It becomes second nature. It's much easier like that. It seems to me common sense rather than extraordinary.

I had the fish on a rope at the end of the dock, and I told John to pull the rope up because at the end was a fish we've been fishing for since we were kids, the one we've been dreaming of catching. When he pulled that rope up, he pulled it ever so slowly, like an inch at a time. And there on the end was that 20-pounder, and it no longer was a dream, but something we both could see and touch.

I'm proud of everything that I've accomplished since I was a little boy. That was my dream - to be a ballplayer. I didn't dream to win so many Gold Gloves, or Silver Bats or play in All-Star Games or World Series. I was just dreaming to play the game.

I'm dreaming that I'm here on this stage and dreaming that I'm here in Berlin.

I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.

It's really a dream come true. I've been training all winter and dreaming about wearing that yellow jersey into my home town.

Daring to challenge the existing theories and dreaming boldly can only lead to further progress in the scientific field and enable the next generation to face the challenges of the 21st century.