“You're never too old to dance, Dad…and you're never too old to dream.”
Douglas Coupland book JPod
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Were you saying that with irony or for real?"
JPod (2006)
"Desperados Under the Eaves"
Warren Zevon (1976)
“You're never too old to dance, Dad…and you're never too old to dream.”
Douglas Coupland book JPod
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Were you saying that with irony or for real?"
JPod (2006)
“And oh my dreams
It's never quite as it seems
'Cause you're a dream to me
Dream to me.”
Dolores O'Riordan (1971–2018) Irish singer
"Dreams"
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)
“When you have never known a thing except to dream, it becomes more than a talisman.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Variant: You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Ted Lindsay (1925–2019) Canadian ice hockey player
Quoted in Kevin Shea, "One on One with Ted Lindsay," http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/spot_oneononep196607.htm Legends of Hockey.net (2004-11-09).
Françoise Sagan (1935–2004) French writer
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1969, Sunlight on Cold Water, translated 1971)
Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) French painter
As quoted in "The Many Faces of Gustave Moreau" by Bennett Schiff in Smithsonian magazine (August 1999) http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/1999/august/moreau.php