Dream Was Quotes

#1. Brooke?" he finally found the sense to ask. "What are you doing here?"
"I need a gun."
This was not how his dream was supposed to go.

Shannon K. Butcher

#2. Art was my little private pleasure. Nobody had seen my art, not even my parents. Andy didn't know about it. My dream was to become a publisher, not an artist lost in New York.

Stephanie Witter

#3. My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.

Godfrey Gao

#4. Just like existence itself, the dream was complicated and absurd.

Kirk Vonnegut

#5. My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

Brittany Howard

#6. If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it's because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me.

Ai Yazawa

#7. My dream was to ride a horse from Mongolia to Hungary, 10,000 km across the great Eurasian Steppe, and in doing so, come to understand the nomadic cultures that have presided there for thousands of years.

Tim Cope

#8. No idea is a bad Idea. No dream is a bad dream. If your dream was good enough to have its good enough to do

Darrius Garrett

#9. I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Rita Dove

#10. My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic.

Shuji Nakamura

#11. My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.

Lindsey Vonn

#12. But in a dream I might get to see the part of the swamp where her body washed up, bloated and rippling, or where she escaped to, if the dream was beautiful.

Karen Russell

#13. You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#14. One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father.

Dale Peck

#15. For every dream was worth the risk

Fallenbabybubu

#16. For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

Rick Mears

#17. My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls ... And I really think that worked out pretty well for me.

George R R Martin

#18. Remember when your dream was just an idea; never forget when nobody could see what you saw, when there was no win in sight.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#19. If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

Ken Mehlman

#20. The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

Richard Wright

#21. My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.

Maria De Villota

#22. America has probably been the most successful experiment in history. The American Dream was a glorious attempt. It was built on a religious foundation. Its earliest concepts came from Holy Scripture.

Billy Graham

#23. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

William Shakespeare

#24. One of the people I've always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she's been able to play and the number of different stories she's been able to tell.

Viola Davis

#25. That night, on a narrow bed in a rented room in a strange city, a dream was dreamed.

David Grossman

#26. The dream was on hold. It wasn't dead.

Sarah Morgan

#27. My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.

Cameron Van Der Burgh

#28. My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.

Moran Atias

#29. When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I grew up a Braves fan just a few hours south of Atlanta, and it was hard for me to believe that I was going to actually play for the Atlanta Braves and legendary manager Bobby Cox.

Tim Hudson

#30. My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.

Dick Cavett

#31. I remember wanting to laugh, but I held it in. I guess even then I thought laughing at someone's dream was one of the cruelest things one person could do to another.

Chris Colfer

#32. Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world.

Guy Laliberte

#33. No. The dream was just my subconscious mind's way of drawing attention to something I'd seen without perceiving its significance.

Jonathan L. Howard

#34. The dream was green, and the green dreams do not lie.

George R R Martin

#35. The dream was gone. Something had been taken from him.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#36. It will not matter. The dream was green, Bran, and the green dreams do not lie.

George R R Martin

#37. Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.

Marco Rubio

#38. That's all it was, the dream was just Jock and me and the stick and the beach and the sea and the sky and time passing by, and that was all, there was nothing else. And that was happiness.

Ninni Holmqvist

#39. I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

Stephen Chow

#40. My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

Travis Barker

#41. ...the revelation that the dream was teaching the dreamers how to live.

Joan Didion

#42. In America the dream is to make it out of the ghetto. In Soweto, because there was no leaving the ghetto, the dream was to transform the ghetto.

Trevor Noah

#43. Whatever her dream was, it rested somewhere in the most vague of directions.

Elizabeth Craft

#44. No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#45. My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.

Claude Nicollier

#46. My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

Rickey Henderson

#47. I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true
My only sure prediction
In this world was you.
I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

Maya Angelou

#48. My first dream was to travel. I was attracted to different places, different colors of skin, different food. When I was 18 in 1977, I went to Europe with my accordion and discovered the pleasure of entertaining people.

Guy Laliberte

#49. Your dream was given to you. If someone else can't see it for you, that's fine, it was given to you and not them. It's your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it!

Les Brown

#50. My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian.

Gisele Bundchen

#51. A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo'.

Jose Saramago

#52. My dream was to become a Rec League coach. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home, And help the kids out, And be a coach.

Kevin Durant

#53. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.

Aberjhani

#54. I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.

Parminder Nagra

#55. My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.

James Harden

#56. When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after the little redhead girl.

Alicia Witt

#57. I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'

Anchee Min

#58. I stood in the isle thinking about my future, while the man next to me complained, but when I asked him what his dream was he never answered.

James Jean-Pierre

#59. My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.

Buzz Aldrin

#60. The newspapers were against me. They were telling me that the Australian dream was a home. But that dream became worse and worse as they had to live further away from the city. My dream became better as we could build higher and higher.

Harry Triguboff

#61. My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#62. My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.

Ruby Dee

#63. The dream was marvellous but the terror was great; we must treasure the dream whatever the terror; for the dream has shown that misery comes at last to the healthy man, the end of his life is sorrow.

Anonymous

#64. My dream was to fall in love and be a mom. I never thought too much past those two things.

Arlene Dickinson

#65. The family's dream was to see me receive a high degree abroad and to return to become a university professor - on the door to my study room, a sign was placed reading 'Dr. Ahmed,' even though I was still far from becoming a doctor.

Ahmed Zewail

#66. Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

Barnett Newman

#67. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,

Kahlil Gibran

#68. My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.

Kathryn Bigelow

#69. But he was dreaming. The way to endure a dream was to flow with it until it ended.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#70. I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God replied: I am not, either. I dreamed the world the way you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare: one of the forms of my dream was you, who, like me, are many and one.

Jorge Luis Borges

#71. My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

Deb Caletti

#72. My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

Jack Ma

#73. The dream was floating off satisfactorily on an inner sea.

Christopher Harman

#74. As a young girl, my real dream was to be the woman in the shows at SeaWorld.

Kerry Washington

#75. My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

Steffi Graf

#76. The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

Charles A. Reich

#77. My dream was to not get a day job but to sleep, wake up and do my music. I want to keep that dream forever.

Bruno Mars

#78. The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Anais Nin

#79. So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?

John Lennon

#80. My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.

Steve Wozniak

#81. Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

Herschel Walker

#82. At night his most frequent recurring dream was of doing The Times crossword puzzle; his most disagreeable that he was reading a tedious book aloud to his family.

Evelyn Waugh

#83. An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#84. Everyone knows, even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King Jr., can say his most famous moment was that 'I have a dream speech. No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this had a dream. We do not know what the dream was'.

Henry Louis Taylor Jr.

#85. My dream was to grow up and get a job at IBM, like my dad. That seemed like a logical dream.

Jimmy Fallon

#86. Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.

William McKeen

#87. Sure, I dreamed of football dates, buy my real dream was that one day I would write something that people would actually read

Kathryn Stockett

#88. I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

Natalie Portman

#89. As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

Chuck Palahniuk

#90. I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters.

Brian K. Vaughan

#91. I considered several names, but Titania, a character from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', was best able to portray the image I wanted for what is a fantastically elegant and sexy yacht.

John Caudwell

#92. A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.

Veronica Rossi

#93. How much of my fever-induced dream was real? I felt safe assuming that my time as a bee was fiction, as well as a few mythological animals that I swear I'd seen. Then I'd lived on the sun with aliens.

Cora Carmack

#94. I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.

Gregory Meeks

#95. When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

Victoria Pratt

#96. Recalling the dream was like trying to follow a ship into fog.

Henning Mankell

#97. The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was about individualism and the opportunity to achieve success without interference from others.

Robert Ringer

#98. My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'

Kate Upton

#99. My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.

Josh Turner

#100. A great pinot chases its own tail. You drink it and you just keep finding new tastes that go with it, my dream was to make a world-class pinot and learn more about other wines as well.

Kurt Russell