Dreams Quotes
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Was it Shakespeare who wrote, "To Shmoop, perchance to dream..."? Something like that. Click on any dream quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."Source: 80 million United States Postage stamps | Author: Maya Angelou
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."Source: Blade Runner | Speaker: Roy Batty
"And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand"Source: A Dream within a Dream | Author: Edgar Allan Poe
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Author: Stephen Chbosky
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."Source: Gone with the Wind | Author: Margaret Mitchell
"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."Source: The Fault in our Stars | Author: John Green
"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."Source: Inauguration Address, January 20, 1961 | Speaker: John F. Kennedy
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."Source: February 5, 2008 Speech | Speaker: Barack Obama
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"Source: Little Women | Author: Louisa May Alcott
"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony."Source: Ebony and Ivory | Speaker: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball."Source: Good Golly Miss Molly | Speaker: Little Richard
"He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American"Source: The Great Gatsby | Speaker: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I see a red door and I want it painted black."Source: Paint It Black | Speaker: The Rolling Stones
"I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away."Source: (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay | Speaker: Otis Redding
"If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change."Source: "Man in the Mirror" | Speaker: Michael Jackson
"In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart."Source: The Diary of Anne Frank | Author: Anne Frank
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Author: J. K. Rowling
"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything."Source: A Wrinkle in Time | Author: Madeleine L'Engle
"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."Source: First Moon Landing | Speaker: Neil Armstrong
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."Source: The Road Not Taken | Author: Robert Frost
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"We are not makers of history; we are made by history."Source: Strength to Love | Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."Source: The Mill on the Floss | Author: George Eliot
"We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep."Source: The Scarlet Letter | Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."Source: David Copperfield | Author: Charles Dickens
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need."Source: You Can't Always Get What You Want | Speaker: The Rolling Stones
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Author: Mark Twain
"You don't have to live forever. You just have to live."Source: Tuck Everlasting | Speaker: The Narrator
"You know it don’t take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?"Source: The Glass Menagerie | Author: Tennessee Williams
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."Source: Persuasion | Author: Jane Austen