Famous Quotes & Sayings

Washington Irving

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.

Washington Irving

To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes.

Walter Kirn

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.

Walter Kirn

My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.

Walter Kirn

It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.

Walter Lippmann

One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer dismiss the fantasy because it is logically inconsistent, superficially absurd, or objectively untrue.

Voltaire

The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

Voltaire

He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

Voltaire

To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

Voltaire

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

William Empson

All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.

William T. Vollmann

Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?

William Stafford

Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person who follows with trust and forgiveness what occurs to him, the world remains always ready and deep, an inexhaustible environment, with the combined vividness of an actuality and flexibility of a dream. Working back and forth between experience and thought, writers have more than space and time can offer. They have the whole unexplored realm of human vision.

William Levy

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.

William Joyce

Watch over our child. Guide him safely from the ways of harm. Keep happy his heart, brave his soul, and rosy his cheeks. Guard with your life his hopes and dreams, for he is all that we have, all that we are, and all that we will ever be.

William Joyce

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.

William Hurt

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

William Least Heat-Moon

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

William Carey

I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God

William C. Bryant

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

William C. Bryant

So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged by his dungeon; but, sustain'd and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Thanatopsis

William C. Bryant

Christ taught an astonishing thing about physical death: not merely that it is an experience robbed of its terror but that as an experience it does not exist at all. To "sleep in Christ," like one that wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

William Butler Yeats

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

William Butler Yeats

I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood; And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes....

William Butler Yeats

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember

William Butler Yeats

I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

William Butler Yeats

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

William Butler Yeats

Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.

William Butler Yeats

The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

William Butler Yeats

What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?

William Butler Yeats

Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.

William Butler Yeats

The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.

William Butler Yeats

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.