Frances Farmer Quotes

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

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 you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

We can live closer to our dreams if we are willing to dream them. And we can create a life as we want it to be.

Everything that I am doing now is what I wanted to do as a kid.

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.

You can't tell me that dreams don't come true. My life is proof that they do.

Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

How many people do you know who've had their dream come true? You're looking at one.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.

Anything you can imagine, you can create.

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!