Dream Quotes - Page 31

• Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things - unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Heart, Cat

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• ...Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness- and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing; and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees.

  Mary Oliver

  Hands, Singing, Quiet Person

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

  Michael Pollan

  Reality, Denial, Innocence

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.183, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes, be touched by greatness and have a hand in it. (from The Mirror of Her Dreams)

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Greatness, Mirrors, Hands

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2013). “The Mirror of Her Dreams”, p.282, Del Rey

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• This was a dream. A very bad, bad dream, brought on by liver poisoning from too many gin and tonics. Here it was, a deal with the devil. At what price my soul? He watched me expectantly and threateningly all at the same time. If I said no, I knew what would happen. Save the glass, waitress, I’m drinking from the bottle! Happy hour, with my neck on tap. If I said yes, I’d be agreeing to a partnership with pure evil.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Drinking, Glasses, Evil

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• What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream

  Cormac McCarthy

  Children, Darkness, Flesh

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.185, Pan Macmillan

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• You are a gift to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you have to do is find it. Do not give up on yourself, or the truths you have realized. Do not give in to those who could crush your dreams like nutshells. And never turn away from forever love.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Crush, Giving Up, Forever

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• i wait. with all my dreams, i know her heart, and i know i'm almost there.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Heart, Waiting, Almost There

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.158, Hachette UK

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• It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Thinking, Years, Waiting

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• I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Reflection, Mirrors, Names

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• Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one is left with dreams that these specters loose their hands from ours and walk away, the curve of the back and the swing of the coat so familiar as to imply that they should be permanent fixtures of the world, when in fact nothing is more perishable.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Fall, Eye, Curves

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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• The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stuff

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• Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream

  Robbie Williams

  Sailing, Sometimes, Feels

  Song: Grace, Album: I've Been Expecting You, 2006

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• What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.

  Janet Fitch

  Beauty, Girl, Wall

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• Creatures with no dreams of their own can do naught but destroy the dreams of others.

  Laini Taylor

  Creatures, Can Do

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Blackbringer”, p.175, Penguin

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• That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven of dreams, the dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything.

  Laini Taylor

  Real, Water, Tragedy

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Blackbringer”, p.162, Penguin

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• We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

  Orson Scott Card

  Lonely, Animal, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.234, Macmillan

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• If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where you come from, or where you went to school, or who you are, there’s hope. That a kid from Jersey with Superman as the icon that kept him alive for years would one day end up writing the character is as absoutely unlikely as it is utterly inevitable. And if that’s true for me, it’s true for you, if you follow your dreams and your passions in full flight. Don’t give up. No Limits. It’s never too late to learn to fly.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Giving Up, Passion, Don't Give Up

  "J. Michael Stracyznski takes over Superman and Wonder Woman" by Glenn Hauman, www.comicmix.com. March 8, 2010.

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• So let me get this straight," he said. "After everything that's happened on this campus-the murder, the stalking, the kidnapping-you want to go up into the woods-by yourself, in the middle of the night, based on something a ghost in a dream told you-and dig a hole?" Well when he put it that way.

  Kate Brian

  Night, Want, Woods

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• I had a dream this morning too, and you were in it," he said. "I don't remember what it was about, exactly, but when I woke up I looked at the clock and it was exactly six thirty-two." I felt an eerie tingle all down my back and froze with my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Really?" He smirked and popped the cookie into his mouth. "No

  Kate Brian

  Morning, Eerie, Two

  Kate Brian (2013). “The Complete Private Collection: Private; Invitation Only; Untouchable; Confessions; Inner Circle; Legacy; Ambition; Revelation; Last Christmas; Paradise Lost; Suspicion; Scandal; Vanished; The Book of Spells; Ominous; Vengeance”, p.2951, Simon and Schuster

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• Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Grace, My Thoughts

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.523, Scholastic Inc.

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• What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

  Mark Batterson

  Lions, Outcomes, Chasers

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.20, Multnomah

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• Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another.

  Steven Pinker

  Selfish, Book, Thinking

  "How the Mind Works". Book by Steven Pinker, 1997.

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• And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Loss, Gone

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.360, Random House

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• Show me your dreams. Let me make them come true.

  Elizabeth Lowell

  Show Me, Let Me, Shows

  Elizabeth Lowell (2006). “Fire and Rain”

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