Quotes About Pipe Dreams

#1. I don't want kids to be distracted by pipe dreams.

Kimberly Elise

#2. Americans had built themselves a world of speculative pipe dreams. That world was inhabited, not by people who had to be convinced, but by people who sought excuses for believing.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#3. To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also.

Harold Bloom

#4. Generally speaking, followers will not commit themselves for very long to a leader who is not also a pragmatist. As most of us have discovered, dreams are only powerful when we believe they can come true. Pipe dreams belong in the realm of fantasy; leaders' dreams belong in the realm of possibility.

Marlene Caroselli

#5. If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

Rick Pitino

#6. If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.

Orison Swett Marden

#7. Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses.

Norman Macbeth

#8. No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

W. Clement Stone

#9. I asked about the pipe dreams and he said they were more than I could afford.

S.J. Cruz

#10. Much of the discovery of the world was based on failure rather than on success
on tactical errors and pipe dreams.

David Grann

#11. Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
And straight reality is always cold

Van Morrison

#12. The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.

Damien Chazelle

#13. I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.

Immortal Technique

#14. If you rescue me from my pipe dreams, I'll stop smoking fantasies.

Munia Khan

#15. The wind comes creeping, it calls to me to come go exploring. It sings of the things that are to be found under the leaves. It whispers the dreams of the tall fir trees. It does pipe the gentle song the forest sings on gray days. I hear all the voices calling me. I listen. But I cannot go.

Opal Whiteley

#16. The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.

Vincent Van Gogh

#17. Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

Bion Of Borysthenes

#18. Huan was born and raised in the House of Aladon, and his family for eleven generations before him, yet even he could be a Listener.

Robert Jordan

#19. But when you're dying you don't have much time for common sense.

Terry Brooks

#20. I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.

Sophie Calle

#21. Common to the many theories about the birth trauma is the assumption that the feelings produced by this event were recorded and reside in some form in the brain. This assumption is supported by the great number of repetitious dreams of the "drainage pipe" variety

Thomas A. Harris

#22. The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.

Mark Goulston

#23. I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

Patty Hearst

#24. The Stone will transform any metal into pure gold. It also produces the Elixir of Life, which will make the drinker immortal.

J.K. Rowling

#25. I suspected that they hadn't relocated to the coldest place on Earth and then taken up disemboweling pigs because things were going well in Europe, but it had never occurred to me to ask for the story. I

Hope Jahren

#26. What are you prepared to give for your dream? If it is not everything ... stop pipe dreaming.

T.F. Hodge

#27. As long as there will be something to conquer, world peace will be a pipe dream

Bangambiki Habyarimana