“The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.”
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“Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.”
“It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal.”
“One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.”
“Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.”
“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.”
“As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.”
“In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.”
“Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.”
“Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.”
“God, that dumping ground of our dreams.”
“I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.”
“What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?”
“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.”
“The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.”
“Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.”
“I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.”
“I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.”
“The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.”
“You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.”
“When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.”
“Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.”
“A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.”
“The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.”