Quotes with dreaming

  • I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
  • If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
  • Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
  • In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
  • There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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  • George Orwell In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Lee A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
    Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Paul Auster As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out.
    Oracle Night (2009) 72
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Marilyn Monroe Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Victor Hugo Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Brad Feld Ever since I learned about the concept of garbage collection in 6.001 at MIT in 1984 while using Scheme on HP Chipmunks, I've always thought of dreaming as the same as garbage collection for a computer.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Aaron Carter Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 20 (p. 359)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Miller I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Chang-tzu I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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  • George Bernard Shaw I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Marcel Proust If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Gaston Bachelard If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alice Walker Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
    (2018)
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Carole Bouquet Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought I was really bad. I was very shy. I was 18 and dreaming of becoming an actress.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Zelda Fitzgerald Oh, the secret life of man and woman -dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    American novelist, socialite, and painter (1900 - 1948)
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  • Dale Carnegie One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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