Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander…

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…

— Carl Perkins

I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every…

— Charles Busch

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

— Alethea Kontis

“The biggest catch need not be grandest at all.”

— Andy Harglesis

They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."

— Yuri Orlov

Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks…

— Germaine Greer

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but…

— Raymond Chandler

Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic.

— Mark Clifton

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it -…

— Norman Rockwell

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

— Lauren Groff

“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his…

— William Barrett

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

— Ronald Reagan

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.

— Teresa Heinz

What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest…

— Jack Kerouac