Dreamer Quotes - Page 23

• People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

  Norman Cousins

  Dream, Fear, Insecure

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• Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

  Mark Twain

  Optimistic, Optimism, Optimist

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.340, Courier Corporation

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• You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.

  Jesse Jackson

  Love, Dream, War

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• What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

  John W. Gardner

  Dream, Spring, Civilization

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• I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.

  Richard Gere

  "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

  Larry Niven

  Love, Dream, Daydreaming

  Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, Michael Flynn (2002). “Fallen Angels”, p.153, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Love, Dream, People

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• Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

  Wallace Stevens

  Love, Dream, Giving

  1923 Harmonium,'Sunday Morning', pt.2.

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• If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Love, Dream, Mets

  Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

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• The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Spontaneous, Dangerous

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.289, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There's a difference between dreaming and doing. The dreamers just sit around and moon about how wonderful it would be if only things were different. The years roll on and by and by they grow old and they forget everything, even about their dreams.

  May Robson

  Dream, Moon, Forget Everything

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• She is all I could ever ask for, she is perfect, and right now, with those big, green eyes and pillowy lips and alabaster thighs, the idea of doing this for the rest of our lives doesn’t seem all that daunting. She’s the last reprieve. The stay of execution. She gives me hope. But times are tough for dreamers. And even if my dream is a simple one—all I want is for Her to be in love with me forever—I know it’s still a long shot. Life ruins everything.

  Pete Wentz

  Dream, Eye, Simple

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Loneliness, Writing, Needs

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• He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dream, Brother, Liars

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.385, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Giving, Solitude

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• While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.

  Anna Quindlen

  Growing Up, Real, Reading

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

  Mary Balogh

  Dream, Disappointment, Successful

  Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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• True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Rebel

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.6, Modern Library

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• Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Life, Reality, Virgin Suicides

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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• Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

  Michael Gambon

  Dream, Children, Kids

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• It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.

  Amy Poehler

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

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• The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

  Man Ray

  Craftsman, Admirable, Streets

  Man Ray, J. Paul Getty Museum (1998). “Man Ray: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.8, Getty Publications

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• The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.

  Harryette Mullen

  Dream, Hurt, Dark

  Harryette Mullen (2002). “Sleeping with the Dictionary”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.

  Napoleon Hill

  Stars, World, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.32, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Real, Shadow

  "Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse".

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