Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
The Bible · Habakkuk 2:2
Dreams quotes on ambition, sleep and the life imagined, from Calderón and Shakespeare to Yeats, Emerson and Sandburg, each checked to its source.
The Bible · Habakkuk 2:2
The Bible · Proverbs 29:18
W. B. Yeats
William Shakespeare
Anne Sexton
George Santayana
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lewis Carroll
Elias Canetti · The source reads: “Alles was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe. All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”
Pedro Calderón de la Barca · The source reads: “no se pierde el hacer bien. Even in dreams good works are not wasted.”
Often credited to Albert Einstein · Carried under Einstein's name without any record; Calaprice lists it among the lines probably not his.
Kermit the Frog · The Muppet frog created by Jim Henson in 1955 · Kermit, the Muppet voiced by Jim Henson and Steve Whitmire.
Attributed to Walt Disney · A line carried under Disney's name since the 1950s, without a record of the occasion.
Jesse Jackson · The refrain Jackson taught crowds in the 1970s and 1980s.
Winston Churchill · Churchill on planning.
Winston Churchill · Churchill on imagination.
Winston Churchill · Churchill on dreams.
F. Scott Fitzgerald · From the last page of The Great Gatsby.
Hermann Hesse · From Demian.
George Bernard Shaw · The Serpent to Eve in Back to Methuselah; Robert Kennedy made it his own.
Jack Dawson · Leonardo DiCaprio's artist in Titanic (1997) · Jack whooping to his friend Fabrizio from the bow of the ship as it leaves port; James Cameron repeated the line on stage when he won the Best Director Oscar in 1998.
Henry David Thoreau · The source reads: “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” · The familiar form is a tidying of the sentence from the conclusion of Walden; Thoreau never wrote it with these words.
Oscar Wilde · Spoken by Lord Darlington in Act III of the play.
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