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  • The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

    Book   Heart   Mind  
  • Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

    Song   Book   Different  
  • Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

    Mother   Dream   Baby  
  • The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.

    Country   Night   Knowing  
    Tod Wodicka (2008). “All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well”, p.87, Random House
  • But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn't care if they sang to me. All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again, pulling me upward into light, to drown.

    Block   Sleep   Light  
    "Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, September 1, 2000.
  • Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real world, you uncover an opportunity, and then you compare other opportunities with that. And you only invest in the most attractive opportunities. That's your opportunity cost. That's what you learn in freshman economics. The game hasn't changed at all. That's why Modern Portfolio Theory is so asinine.

  • Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone, unicorns live inside the true believer's heart. Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

    Dream   Heart   Mean  
  • At last I have come into a dreamland.

    Paris   Lasts   Dreamland  
    Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny memories of foreign lands”, p.158
  • She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

    Self   Talking   Shells  
    Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.33, Penguin
  • His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars, "Rest, rest, and rest again.

    Stars   Pain   Water  
    Walter De La Mare (2007). “The Listeners and Other Poems”, p.19, Wildside Press LLC
  • I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west; Soft o'er the poppy-fields of sleep, The drowsy winds of dreamland creep. What idle things are wealth and fame Beside the treasures one could name!

  • Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.

    Dream   Anchors   Venture  
    Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria
  • This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour in the afternoon, at night go out and have that life. You know. Go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place.

    "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. May 26, 2014.
  • After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

    H. G. Wells (2009). “The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll”, p.71, The Floating Press
  • The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

    Cheer   Eye   Rivers  
  • When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

    War   Ideas   America  
  • Dreamland Studios then was my bedroom at my parents' house, mostly [starring] people who were in my high school. They look straight at the camera; they're uncomfortable doing it. So, are [early movies] good? No.

    School   People   House  
    Source: www.timeout.com
  • It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

    Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.20, Penguin
  • If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

    Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.242, Penguin
  • It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

    Poetry   Mastery   Logic  
    James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell”
  • Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.

    Sleep   Wake Up   Half  
    "Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2000.
  • What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

    Dream   Home   Waiting  
    Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.61, Macmillan
  • Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses. They are my daydreams, but they have passed from dreamland into the world of everyday items to wear.

  • I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.

    "Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast". Interview with Dean Brierly, photographyinterviews.blogspot.com. April 22, 2009.
  • Tomorrow we go back to normal?" "Sure," Mab said. "It'll be like none of this happened. Except I'll still be pregnant, and you'll still be making dragons, and Glenda will still be pretending that Dreamland is Cancun, and Weaver will still own the only green velvet demon in captivity. Other than that, perfectly normal." "I just meant no demons trying to kill us," Cindy said. "My baseline for normal is a lot lower than yours.

  • Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.

    Wall   Real   Cutting  
  • Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

    Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.167, Penguin
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