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Dream Quotes

What happens when your dream comes true – when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?

– Juliana Hatfield

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

– Johnny Cash

If I should get selected into the Hall of Fame, I’d be able to say ‘thank you’ to all the legends that are in the Hall of Fame. And also say thank you to my teammates, and also to all the fans. It’s going to be like a dream come true.

– Jerry Rice

The Rocky Mountains realize – nay, exceed – the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

– Isabella Bird

My dream is to have a small company in France.

– Israel Horovitz

That’s always – that’s been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

– Janet Jackson

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

– Giorgio de Chirico

I wrote my second novel, ‘A Little Life,’ in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.

– Hanya Yanagihara

I’m not sure what to call ‘Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.’ Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/’Star Wars’ kid’s dream. Call it spectacular.

– Jon Scieszka

The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population.

– Jan C. Ting

I dream about doing a film about once a week.

– Ingmar Bergman

To my child’s eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

– J. G. Ballard

I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That’s a disservice to The American Dream because the American Dream is worth striving for. And it’s not easy.

– James Gray

I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I’d get Frank Gehry, just to see what he’d do.

– Hugh Hardy

Growing up, when I was at live shows, I was always hoping someone would come out on stage and say, ‘The guitarist is sick and couldn’t make it… does anybody know how to play all the songs?’ That was always my little dream. It was a massively inspiring thing to be in a space with live shows.

– James Bay

Every redneck’s dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show.

– Johnny Van Zant

For a writer it’s a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

– Jill Scott

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

– Jesse Jackson

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

– Jorge Luis Borges

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

– Jean Cocteau

Whatever you do, life don’t stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.

– Grace Paley

Being in the Premier League would be a dream come true.

– Jamie Vardy

If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It’s not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I’ll confess, you know, I knew what it was.

– James D. Watson

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on ‘SNL,’ and that was all I could imagine.

– Josh Gad

Going to a major tournament, having that buzz – it’s hard to put into words. It’s a dream to go there, and to play. It’s the biggest thing you can achieve in your career, and to go again would be a dream.

– Jermain Defoe

I used to read about people who’d say, ‘I dream my books, and then I write them down.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, please.’

– Judy Blume

Look, many of us here are regular marines… I will die as a marine because that is my dream.

– Jerry Jones

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

– James Howard Kunstler

I have that huge print from Pollock by the piano because the influence is reciprocal. He was into hearing music while he created, and I sometimes do the opposite. I’m influenced by everything from an ant to a dream.

– Jason Moran

I’m in love with dream catchers. I collect them from every trip I take.

– Gillian Zinser

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