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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
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. -- John Waters
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
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. -- Steve Erickson
At last I have come into a dreamland... -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive. -- Sarah Dessen
Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day. -- Silas Weir Mitchell
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. -- James Russell Lowell
Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore. -- Sarah Dessen
Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee. -- Elizabeth Prentiss
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. -- Walter de La Mare
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. -- Charles de Lint
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
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. -- Rabindranath Tagore
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. -- Christian Dior
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. -- Mark Twain
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. -- Tod Wodicka
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. -- Sarah Dessen
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! -- Robert Loveman
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. -- Charlie Munger
Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't underÂstand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. -- Sarah Dessen

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