Dreamer Quotations

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.

I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.

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

I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed.

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

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

A Dreamer is a person whose life is in motion.

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.

I had never experienced anything like it before and I don't think I have experienced anything like it since [on Ruapehu]. It was my dreams coming true in a way, and from there on I tended to become more of a doer than a dreamer.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

I guess I'm a dreamer and figured I could still play out here. Others might not have thought that about me, but I'm the one who counts.

Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.

Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.

I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't.

I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation.

The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all.

We live as we dream--alone....

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, / Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? / Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme / Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, / Telling a tale not too importunate.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

I might dream, but I am no dreamer.

Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual ...

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

I never meant to be but a dreamer.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.

Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We don't want capitalism. We want a decent society.

Great hail! we cry to the comers From the dazzling unknown shore; Bring us hither your sun and your summers; And renew our world as of yore; You shall teach us your song's new numbers, And things that we dreamed not before: Yea, in spite of a dreamer who slumbers, And a singer who sings no more.

We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers.We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...

If you're walking the path of the dreamer, everything is possible.

I was and I still am a dreamer, that made me the person I am today

If you are willing to walk the path of a dreamer, then anything is possibly.

What happened to a dream without a dreamer?

The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.

I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer

All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.

I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

I'm just a dreamer I dream my life away i'm just a dreamer Who dreams of better days

Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

Dreamers conquered the world long ago.

Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer.

All men of action are dreamers.

Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.

All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak

Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also for undocumented workers of all ages and backgrounds who contribute to our economic security and prosperity.

A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.

Savers like spenders, worriers like avoiders and planners marry dreamers.

Because of Obama ... DREAMers who are American in every way except on paper no longer live under the shadow of deportation.

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?

Everybody's a dreamer.

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

It is not the size of the dreamer, it is the size of the dream.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

I was a dreamer. When I was on stage I didn't have to think about whether I could pay the rent. I was just having a great time.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers

Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher!

We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.

It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is the worst possible place, the most corrupting place, for the human soul. And just as there is no escape from the world, which follows us into the very heart of the desert, so the actor cannot escape the theatre. And the actor who is a dreamer need not. All of us can only strive to remain uncontaminated. In the world we must be unworldly, in the theatre the actor must be untheatrical.

Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.