762 private quotes tagged dreams

“I married the man of my dreams in 1998.”— Cindy Margolis

“But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.”— Joshua Chamberlain

“Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.”— Armstrong Williams

“People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.”— Tracy Chapman

“When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.”— Laurieann Gibson

“My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.”— John Astin

“Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.”— Emmitt Smith

“It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.”— Olivier Martinez

“I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.”— Julian Castro

“My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.”— Theodore Sturgeon

“It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.”— Rachel Griffiths

“Men are the dreams of a shadow.”— Pindar

“When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.”— Alan Jackson

“I was a great dreamer of day dreams.”— Abraham Cahan

“The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.”— Gaston Bachelard

“A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.”— Joan Lunden

“It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.”— Camryn Manheim

“I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.”— Judy Collins

“I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.”— Judy Collins

“No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.”— LeRoy Neiman

“I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.”— Mark Burnett

“I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.”— Giuliana Rancic

“All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.”— Alice Hoffman

“I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?”— Alice Hoffman

“It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.”— Michael Chang