If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.
Muhammad AliI once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.
Marilyn MonroeMan, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon HillI like George Carlin’s jokes. I like his humor. He’s one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.
Steven WrightI thought I would be a guy on the radio.
Steven WrightA fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard ShawI used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.
Marilyn MonroeI never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Adam SandlerI never talk about my next project.
Alice WalkerThe only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore RooseveltDeep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan PoeIf you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
Booker T. WashingtonWe want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
Narendra ModiFantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.
Terry PratchettIf a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.
Bad BunnyI don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.
Kevin GatesI have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
Anthony HopkinsEvery setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.
Joel OsteenWhen Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
Bill GatesWomen have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice WalkerI know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.
Lando NorrisI have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
Leonardo da VinciI think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.
Anthony BourdainWhen other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
Angelina JolieI’m trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, ‚I’m different. I’m not just a comedian.‘ I’m trying to become a rock star.
Kevin HartNo enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo MachiavelliGovernments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
Noam ChomskyMy theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Thomas JeffersonActions are visible, though motives are secret.
Samuel JohnsonI miss my singing career very much.
Elvis PresleyWhen I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.
Steven WrightIf a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.
LeBron JamesI hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.
Lady GagaGold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Christopher ColumbusThere are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.
Jocko WillinkI was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.
Jocko WillinkDream and you shall become.
Wayne DyerSome people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.
George CarlinWe are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.
Jerry SeinfeldThe barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘
Ludwig van BeethovenThe fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
J. K. RowlingI dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Nelson MandelaPlenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
Joseph AddisonSome day I shall be President.
Abraham LincolnWriters are always writing about infidelity. It’s so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you’re also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it’s just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.
Alice MunroIt’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.
Frank OceanThe only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert HubbardYou do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.
Kevin HartI know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.
Dolly PartonI had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.
Paulo CoelhoIn fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
HypatiaI have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.
Abby Lee MillerPerhaps one day I will go into space.
Stephen HawkingWhen I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.
Bad BunnyI used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.
Kevin GatesI never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.
Dalai LamaOne day, I want to make a PG film.
Jackie ChanMy real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.
J. Cole