TO Isaac Barkey, who lived there for more than half a century, the 1890 reservoir keeper's house is an unhappy memory of unfinished dreams.

"My brother calls this the island of unfinished dreams," says Tony.

Ms. Zalben's own unfinished dream hangs on the wall in her sun room.

The colonel had added that unfinished dreams were always of special significance, invariably bearing a good omen.

She lives in the shadow of unfinished dreams--the dreams from which we awaken and never return to.

Dion remarks it's just as well they don't, for if we hoped to find our unfinished dreams we'd be forever sleeping, and who'd cook breakfast?

After that Huang Yang completed his second degree and decided to join Kitchee to complete his unfinished dream.

By the mid-1940s, it was an unfinished dream deferred.

I woke up with the dream unfinished and my clock said ten minutes of seven.

"Argentina is a nation of unfinished dreams," someone once said.