Dreaming Books Quotes

#1. Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though, at times, it seems impossible.

Frederick Lenz

#2. In my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.

Lisa Factora-Borchers

#3. Finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over

Sara Shepard

#5. There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds of my normal existence and familiarise myself with life and the world at large.

Walter Moers

#6. So tell me, Tamara darlin', what other needs can I help you take care of?

Avery Flynn

#7. Lucas Benes lay in a sleeping bag on the roof of his father's hotel, dreaming about a past he couldn't remember.

Paul Aertker

#8. What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

Rikki Ducornet

#9. Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.

Walter Moers

#10. Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

Paul Kropp

#11. When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#12. Every action you take, leads to a consequence you face. Choose wisely!

Kemi Sogunle

#13. The path to success involves two parts. Part One is all about imagination and dreaming up a big idea. Part Two is all about having the diligence, the determination, and the tenacity needed to turn those dreams into reality. First comes the inspiration, then comes the perspiration.

Clay Clark

#14. I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.

Walter Moers

#15. No one who writes a good book is really dead.

Walter Moers

#16. Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

Walter Moers

#17. The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied with accidents, we must explain how knowledge was gradually built up.

George Sarton

#18. I've been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.

Gracie Gold

#19. I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.

Rokia Traore

#20. He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.

Laini Taylor

#21. She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. "I'm going to miss you when I wake up," she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream.
"Don't wake up," he said.

Marie Rutkoski

#22. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that.

Walter Moers

#23. It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.

Janet Fitch

#24. You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

Walt Whitman

#25. Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

Fernando Pessoa

#26. If you hold a beggarly attitude, towards life,
do not expect everyone you meet, to be a philanthropist, to you

Kamini Arichandran

#27. In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

Alberto Manguel

#28. Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.

Thomas Woods

#29. I have body hang-ups - but I work the best of what I've got.

Nikki Sanderson

#30. I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects!

Michelle Pfeiffer

#31. In Washington, politicians worry about their 'base.' About polls. About ideology. About raising money. About re-election. They measure their future in two- or six-year increments.

Mike Barnicle

#32. I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.

Walter Moers

#33. I'd find myself more interesting if I weren't with me all the time.

Dov Davidoff