Walter Dean Myers Quotes

Trust me, all our dreams are breaking out

We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even straighten.

Hope is a dream deferred.

Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well don’t waste your time waiting.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

Without dreams, there could be no despair.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

There are times when I think, 'I'm going to get this part. I know I am. I'm going to get this.' And then I don't, and I'm wondering, 'What happened? I went back five times!'

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.