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Dreams Quotes

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Dreams Quotes

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.

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"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

"A salesman is got to dream, boy."

Source: Death of a Salesman | Author: Arthur Miller

"Adrian!"

Source: Rocky | Speaker: Rocky Balboa

"Adventure is out there."

Source: Up | Speaker: Charles Muntz

"All I do is think and blink."

Source: I Dream of Jeannie | Speaker: Jeannie

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

Source: Blade Runner | Speaker: Roy Batty

"Am I original? Am I the only one? Am I sexual?"

Source: "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys

"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 it'd be our own, an' nobody could can us."

Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"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

"Baby, we were born to run."

Source: Born to Run | Speaker: Bruce Springsteen

"Because I was afraid of worms, Roxanne! Worms!"

Source: Roxanne | Speaker: Chris McConnell

"Billions and billions."

Source: Carl Sagan | Speaker: Carl Sagan

"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."

Source: Still I Rise | Author: Maya Angelou

"Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble."

Source: Macbeth | Author: William Shakespeare

"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

"Carpe… Hear it? Carpe… carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."

Source: Dead Poets Society | Speaker: John Keating

"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

"Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose."

Source: Friday Night Lights | Speaker: Coach Eric Taylor

"Come on down!"

Source: The Price is Right | Speaker: Johnny Olson

"Did you ever know that you're my hero?"

Source: Wind Beneath My Wings | Speaker: Bette Midler

"Do I dare to eat a peach?"

Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | Author: T. S. Eliot

"Do you believe in miracles?"

Source: 1980 Winter Olympics | Speaker: Al Michaels

"Don't just fly, soar."

Source: Dumbo | Speaker: Timothy Mouse

"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony."

Source: Ebony and Ivory | Speaker: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder

"Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world."

Source: 2003 Speech | Speaker: Nelson Mandela

"Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’."

Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for."

Source: The Epistle to the Hebrews | Author: Unknown

"Fear can't hurt you any more than a dream"

Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding

"Fiddle-dee-dee."

Source: Gone with the Wind | Speaker: Scarlet O'Hara

"For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool."

Source: Hey Jude | Speaker: The Beatles

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."

Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!"

Source: Walden | Author: Henry David Thoreau

"Go west."

Source: Go West | Speaker: The Village People

"Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball."

Source: Good Golly Miss Molly | Speaker: Little Richard

"Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England."

Source: The Cider House Rules | Speaker: Dr. Wilbur Larch

"Goodnight, John Boy."

Source: The Waltons | Speaker: The Waltons

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."

Source: Stanford Commencement Speech (2005) | Speaker: Steve Jobs

"He lives in you."

Source: The Lion King | Speaker: Rafiki

"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

"Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine."

Source: A Star Is Born | Speaker: Vicki Lester

"Hold fast to dreams"

Source: "Dreams" | Author: Langston Hughes

"Hoo-ah!"

Source: Scent of a Woman | Speaker: Lt. Col. Frank Slade

"I am a golden god."

Source: Almost Famous | Speaker: Russell Hammond

"I am a material girl."

Source: Material Girl | Speaker: Madonna

"I am big. It's the pictures that got small."

Source: Sunset Boulevard | Speaker: Norma Desmond

"I am the walrus. Goo goo g'joob."

Source: I Am the Walrus | Speaker: The Beatles

"I coulda been a contender!"

Source: On the Waterfront | Speaker: Terry Malloy

"I done another bad thing."

Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"I feel the need—the need for speed!"

Source: Top Gun | Speaker: Peter "Maverick" Mitchell

"I had to go see about a girl."

Source: Good Will Hunting | Speaker: Will Hunting

"I have a dream"

Source: "I Have a Dream" Speech | Speaker: Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I invented the internet."

Source: Al Gore | Speaker: Al Gore

"I just can't get you outta my head."

Source: "Can't Get You Out of My Head" | Speaker: Kylie Minogue

"I like big butts and I cannot lie."

Source: Baby Got Back | Speaker: Sir Mix-a-Lot

"I live in a van down by the river."

Source: Saturday Night Live, Motivation | Speaker: Matt Foley

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul | Author: Douglas Adams

"I see a red door and I want it painted black."

Source: Paint It Black | Speaker: The Rolling Stones

"I think to myself: what a wonderful world."

Source: What a Wonderful World | Speaker: Louis Armstrong

"I think, therefore I am."

Source: Discourse on the Method | Author: René Descartes

"I wandered lonely as a cloud"

Source: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud | Author: William Wordsworth

"I wanna really really really wanna zig-a-zig ha."

Source: "Wannabe" | Speaker: The Spice Girls

"I wanna run through the halls of my high school."

Source: No Such Thing | Speaker: John Mayer

"I want the fairy tale."

Source: Pretty Woman | Speaker: Vivian Ward

"I was cured all right!"

Source: A Clockwork Orange | Speaker: Alex DeLarge

"I wish I knew how to quit you."

Source: Brokeback Mountain | Author: Annie Proulx

"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."

Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith

"I'd like to buy a vowel."

Source: Wheel of Fortune | Speaker: Contestants

"I'll be there someday, I can go the distance."

Source: Go the Distance | Speaker: Hercules

"I'm going back to the start"

Source: "Scientist" | Speaker: Coldplay

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."

Source: The Godfather | Speaker: Don Corleone

"I'm not interested in caring about people."

Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Ron Swanson

"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

"I'm the king of the world!"

Source: Titanic | Speaker: Jack Dawson

"I, too, sing America."

Source: I, Too, Sing America | Author: Langston Hughes

"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 build it, he will come."

Source: Field of Dreams | Speaker: A mysterious voice

"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 sleep, he sang to me. In dreams, he came. That voice which calls to me and speaks my name."

Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: Christine Daae

"In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart."

Source: The Diary of Anne Frank | Author: Anne Frank

"In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight."

Source: The Lion Sleeps Tonight | Speaker: The Tokens

"In the midnight hour I can feel your power."

Source: Like a Prayer | Speaker: Madonna

"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?"

Source: Bohemian Rhapsody | Speaker: Queen

"Islands in the stream, that is what we are."

Source: Islands in the Stream | Speaker: Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

"Isn’t it pretty to think so?"

Source: The Sun Also Rises | Author: Ernest Hemingway

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Author: J. K. Rowling

"Let the wild rumpus start!"

Source: Where the Wild Things Are | Author: Maurice Sendak

"Let us go then, you and I"

Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | Author: T.S. Eliot

"Life moves pretty fast."

Source: Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Speaker: Ferris Bueller

"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"

Source: White Heat | Speaker: Cody Jarrett

"Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time."

Source: "Maybe I'm Amazed" | Speaker: Paul McCartney

"My biological clock is ticking like this."

Source: My Cousin Vinny | Speaker: Mona Lisa Vito

"New York, New York!"

Source: "Theme from New York, New York" | Speaker: Frank Sinatra

"No mere mortal can resist the evil of the thriller."

Source: "Thriller" | Speaker: Michael Jackson

"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything."

Source: A Wrinkle in Time | Author: Madeleine L'Engle

"Oh, it's okay. I guess I wasn't meant to have a good life."

Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher

"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

"Out of the sea, wish I could be, part of your world."

Source: Part of Your World | Speaker: Ariel

"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"

Source: 42nd Street | Speaker: Julian Marsh

"Say goodnight, Gracie."

Source: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show | Speaker: George Burns

"Shine bright like a diamond."

Source: "Diamonds" | Speaker: Rihanna

"Sing us a song, you're the piano man."

Source: Piano Man | Speaker: Billy Joel

"So, goodbye, yellow brick road."

Source: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" | Speaker: Elton John

"Space, the final frontier."

Source: Star Trek | Speaker: Narrator

"Stuff your eyes with wonder."

Source: Fahrenheit 451 | Author: Ray Bradbury

"Sweet dreams are made of this."

Source: "Sweet Dreams" | Speaker: The Eurythmics

"Tear down this wall!"

Source: Spoken on June 12, 1987 | Speaker: Ronald Reagan

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Source: First Moon Landing | Speaker: Neil Armstrong

"The best laid schemes of mice and men Go oft awry."

Source: To a Mouse | Author: Robert Burns

"The claaaww!"

Source: Toy Story | Speaker: Squeeze Toy Aliens

"The cold never bothered me anyway."

Source: Frozen | Speaker: Elsa

"The stuff that dreams are made of."

Source: The Maltese Falcon | Speaker: Sam Spade

"These go to 11."

Source: This Is Spinal Tap | Speaker: Nigel Tufnel

"These pretzels are making me thirsty!"

Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Seinfeld Cast

"They shall mount up with wings as eagles."

Source: Isaiah 40:31 | Author: Luke

"This is no dream! This is really happening!"

Source: Rosemary's Baby | Speaker: Rosemary Woodhouse

"Till this moment I never knew myself."

Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Source: Ulysses | Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"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 could live offa the fatta the lan'."

Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"We don't need another hero"

Source: "We Don't Need Another Hero" | Speaker: Tina Turner

"We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep."

Source: The Scarlet Letter | Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

"We're all damaged somehow."

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty | Author: Libba Bray

"We're all mad here."

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Author: Lewis Carroll

"Well, nobody's perfect."

Source: Some Like It Hot | Speaker: Osgood Fielding III

"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."

Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green

"What happens to a dream deferred?"

Source: Harlem (Dream Deferred) | Author: Langston Hughes

"When you wish upon a star."

Source: When You Wish Upon a Star | Speaker: Jiminy Cricket

"When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall."

Source: Roxanne | Speaker: C.D. Bales

"Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods?"

Source: "Holding Out for a Hero" | Speaker: Bonnie Tyler

"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

"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away."

Source: "Yesterday" | Speaker: The Beatles

"You can call me green bean."

Source: "Royals" | Speaker: Lorde

"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 make me feel like I'm a living teenage dream."

Source: "Teenage Dream" | Speaker: Katy Perry

"You may say I'm a dreamer."

Source: "Imagine" | Speaker: John Lennon

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Source: Unknown | Author: Mahatma Gandhi

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."

Source: Persuasion | Author: Jane Austen

"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."

Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith

"You're so money and you don't even know it."

Source: Swingers | Speaker: Trent Walker

"You're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom."

Source: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Speaker: Judge May