Quotes Temple Dreams Quotes

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.

Cleveland Abbe
American Scientist

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
American Athlete

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Douglas Adams
English Writer

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Aeschylus
Greek Poet

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

Christina Aguilera
American Musician

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Amos Bronson Alcott
American Educator

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

James Allen
British Author

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

James Lane Allen
American Author

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

Kevin Bacon
American Actor

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

David Bailey
English Photographer

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

Liberty Hyde Bailey
American Scientist

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

Jim Bakker
American Celebrity

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

J. G. Ballard
British Author

There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.

Tyra Banks
American Model

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

Joseph Barbera
American Cartoonist

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Spanish Dramatist

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Spanish Dramatist

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Spanish Dramatist

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Djuna Barnes
American Novelist

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore
American Actor

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Abraham Cahan
Lithuanian Author

My dreams are all follies.

Taylor Caldwell
American Author

You can plant a dream.

Anne Campbell
English Politician

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell
American Author

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti
Swiss Author

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

Nick Cannon
American Musician

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

Steve Carell
American Actor

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Jimmy Carter
American President

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

Puff Daddy
American Musician

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Salvador Dali
Spanish Artist

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Edwidge Danticat
Haitian Author

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean
Actor

In our dreams we are always young.

Sarah Louise Delany
American Educator

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Umberto Eco
Italian Novelist

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco
Italian Novelist

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Black Elk
Leader

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

Michael Emerson
American Actor

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

M. C. Escher
Dutch Artist

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

Mike Farrell
American Actor

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

Mike Farrell
American Actor

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner
American Novelist

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Marsilio Ficino
Italian Philosopher

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Ernst Fischer
Austrian Writer

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

Zelda Fitzgerald
American Writer

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Marguerite Gardiner
Irish Writer

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

John Gardner
American Novelist

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Bill Gates
American Businessman

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin
French Artist

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Jean Genet
French Dramatist

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Khalil Gibran
Poet

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

Arsenio Hall
American Comedian

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

Ayumi Hamasaki
Japanese Musician

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

Ayumi Hamasaki
Japanese Musician

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

Ruth Handler
American Businessman

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

Ruth Handler
American Businessman

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

Lorraine Hansberry
American Playwright

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

Mark Victor Hansen
American Businessman

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Eugene Ionesco
French Dramatist

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Jeremy Irons
English Actor

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

Pico Iyer
Indian Writer

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Mick Jagger
English Musician

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

Jerry B. Jenkins
American Novelist

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.

Derek Jeter
American Athlete

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

Derek Jeter
American Athlete

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII
Italian Clergyman

Don't let your dreams be dreams.

Jack Johnson
American Athlete

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Jack Johnson
American Athlete

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

John H. Johnson
American Businessman

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Frida Kahlo
Mexican Artist

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Abdul Kalam
Indian Statesman

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Abdul Kalam
Indian Statesman

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

Herbert Kaufman
American Writer

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Robert Kennedy
American Politician

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Jack Kerouac
American Novelist

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

Stephen LaBerge
American Psychologist

Sleep is the best meditation.

Dalai Lama
Leader

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

Jessica Lange
American Actress

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Ralph Lauren
American Designer

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

Ralph Lauren
American Designer

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

David Herbert Lawrence
English Writer

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

Ernst Mach
Austrian Physicist

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

Arthur Machen
Welsh Author

It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

Arthur Machen
Welsh Author

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

Arthur Machen
Welsh Author

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

William H. Macy
American Actor

Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.

Joel Madden
American Musician

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

Ella Maillart
Swiss Writer

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Stephane Mallarme
French Poet

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
American Actress

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Marya Mannes
American Journalist

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Marilyn Manson
American Musician

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

Imelda Marcos
Celebrity

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Colombian Novelist

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Vladimir Nabokov
American Novelist

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Vladimir Nabokov
American Novelist

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

Judd Nelson
American Actor

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
French Novelist

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

Stevie Nicks
American Musician

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Anais Nin
American Author

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Anais Nin
American Author

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman
American Dramatist

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Novalis
German Poet

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

Ivor Novello
Welsh Musician

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.

Gary Numan
British Musician

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

Roy Orbison
American Musician

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Joel Osteen
American Clergyman

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Jesse Owens
American Athlete

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

Joy Page
American Actress

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

Brian De Palma
American Director

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Paracelsus
Swiss Scientist

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

Paracelsus
Swiss Scientist

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Paracelsus
Swiss Scientist

The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

Paracelsus
Swiss Scientist

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Paracelsus
Swiss Scientist

I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.

Scott Patterson
American Actor

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

Carl Perkins
American Musician

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

Ross Perot
American Businessman

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian Author

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

Gilda Radner
American Actress

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

Man Ray
American Photographer

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

Leon Redbone
American Musician

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

Henry Reed
English Writer

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

Henry Reed
English Writer

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

Henry Reed
English Writer

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

Henry Reed
English Writer

I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

Henry Reed
English Writer

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.

Henry Reed
English Writer

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

Henry Reed
English Writer

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

Henry Reed
English Writer

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

Henry Reed
English Writer

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

Christopher Reeve
American Actor

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Christopher Reeve
American Actor

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

Martha Reeves
American Musician

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

Martha Reeves
American Musician

Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.

Paul Reiser
American Comedian

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

Jonas Salk
American Scientist

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre
French Philosopher

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

Ryunosuke Satoro
Japanese Poet

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Friedrich Schiller
German Dramatist

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

Robert H. Schuller
American Clergyman

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Antonio Tabucchi
Italian Writer

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

Sara Teasdale
American Author

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

Tecumseh
American Leader

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
English Poet

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Henry David Thoreau
American Author

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

John Thorn
American Historian

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

Henry Timrod
American Poet

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.

Carrie Underwood
American Musician

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Rudolph Valentino
Italian Actor

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery
French Poet

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

Raoul Vaneigem
Belgian Philosopher

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

Lope de Vega
Spanish Playwright

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

Julie Walters
British Actress

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

Booker T. Washington
American Educator

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

Bill Watterson
American Cartoonist

You've got to have dreams to keep you going.

Steve Waugh
Australian Athlete

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

Mary Webb
English Novelist

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Simone Weil
French Philosopher

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet

In dreams begins responsibility.

William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet