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" I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination. "

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" Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present. "

" Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches. "

J. R. Moehringer

" You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess. "

Ginnifer Goodwin

" I'm a big believer in living out your dreams and facing your fears. "

" I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better. "

Brian Schweitzer

" Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner. "

" Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young. "

" Don't cut corners or compromise to achieve your dreams. "

" When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live. "

" For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time. "

" Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives. "

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

" I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place, and I drew on my experiences there when writing 'The Lake of Dreams.' "

" Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me. "

" Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle. "

Nikos Kazantzakis

" Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage, journalism. That was all I really wanted, and 'The Atlantic' was my first high-profile opportunity. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. "

" If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's. "

" For over two centuries, Americans have grown up in a society that rewards hard work, protects innovation, and allows its citizens to constantly break new barriers. The key element to this success rests on freedom and the ability of individuals to strive toward achieving their dreams and making their children's futures better than their own. "

" I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams. "

Augusten Burroughs

" Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled. "

Queen Rania of Jordan

" Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

" I feel like dreams are always a little tricky, you know? But if you just push through the struggles and the hard times, it'll be so worth it in the end because you will be able to get to your dreams. "

" When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference. "

" I am the underdog, and I want to prove that one can follow one's dreams despite all the flaws and setbacks. "

" The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. "

James A. Michener

" I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? "

" After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it. "

" My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true. "

" In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line. "

" Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams. "

Rudolph Valentino