762 private quotes tagged dreams

“Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.” — Lucille Roybal-Allard

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“No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.” — Donald G. Mitchell

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“As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.” — Karen Kingsbury

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“I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.” — AnnaLynne McCord

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“I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.” — Elena Anaya

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“Am I athletic? In my dreams.” — Hugh Bonneville

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“Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.” — Donovan Bailey

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“In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.” — Laura Miller

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“I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.” — George Hickenlooper

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“The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.” — Ed Smith

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“Most of my actor friends don't believe it's possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.” — Genie Francis

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“I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.” — Sarah Hughes

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“Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

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“To see your friend's dreams come true, there's really nothing that can make you happier.” — Josh Hopkins

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“The Olympics is about letting people believe in their own dreams.” — Kyle Shewfelt

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“Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.” — Jane Roberts

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“I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.” — Sue Monk Kidd

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“Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'” — Sue Monk Kidd

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“I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.” — Uri Geller

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“Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.” — Gerard De Nerval

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“Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.” — Roy Keane

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“Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.” — Matthew Prior

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“The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.” — Stedman Graham

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“Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.” — Cassandra Peterson

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“It's surreal to know my dreams are coming true.” — Mario Vazquez

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