Quote Help

“I am about to start a small project. I am refinishing a cool 1940's bedroom set. I want to stencil a quote across the headboard about sleep, dreaming, or something in that neighborhood. Do you guys have any good suggestions?”

“To sleep, perchance to dream
shakespeare

Quote site”

“I assume this is for newergirl.
BTW-good idea.

Sleep she as sound as careless infancy.
-- William Shakespeare”

“Is this for you or your daughter?”

“This is one of my favorites, newgirl: Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
-Johann von Schiller”

“All very cool ones so far. This is going to be hard to pick. Actually, the set is for me. I needed new bedroom furniture BAD, but I had to do kinda' cheap. I thought this was a cool way to make it a little unique. (My previous set is from my own childhood and is falling apart.)”

“Human, I had thought of that first Shakespeare quote, but it so well-known, I thought it might seem cheesy.”

“I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
- M. C. Escher”

“I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon”

“Yeah, it is over used.
Plus the full context can be taken as very negative if folks bother to think about the rest of the verse.
I'd probably nix that one.
My bad.”

“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
-
Edgar Cayce”

“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
- William Dement”

“I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
- Rene Descartes”

“Violin, I said unique, not bizarre.”

“There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.
- B. Quilliam”

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
- Alfred Lord Tennyson”

“One night I walked home very late and fell asleep in somebody's satellite dish. My dreams were showing up on TV's all over the world.
- Steven Wright”

“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin”

“Stephen Foster

Beautiful Dreamer

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away!

Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,
List while I woo thee with soft melody;
Gone are the cares of life's busy throng, ?
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!

Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea
Mermaids are chaunting the wild lorelie;
Over the streamlet vapors are borne,
Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn.

Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart,
E'en as the morn on the streamlet and sea;
Then will all clouds of sorrow depart, ?
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!”

“"bacpac was here"”

“One more Shakespeare--"Sleep, that knitteth up the ravelled sleeve of care." Of course, the context is a character who can't sleep...on account of he's been murdering folks...
;-)”

“Hey ya copycat! That was the context of my quote.”

“Pouvoir vos rêves se réalisent

May your dreams come true.”

“I once dreamed I was a butterfly. When I awoke, I no longer knew if I was a butterfly dreaming he was a man, or a man who had dreamed he was a butterfly.”

“Tequila is a trip, ain't it steve?”

“The above is a paraphrase of a Chuang Tzu (369? - 268 B.C.), who was "a leading thinker representing the Taoist strain in Chinese thought. Using parable and anecdote, allegory and paradox, he set forth the early ideas of what was to become the Taoist school. Central in these is the belief that only by understanding Tao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in unity can man achieve true happiness and be truly free, in both life and death."

An expanded version is:

"One day about sunset, Zhuangzi dozed off and dreamed that he turned into a butterfly.

He flapped his wings and sure enough he was a butterfly...

What a joyful feeling as he fluttered about, he completely forgot that he was Zhuangzi.

Soon though, he awoke and realized that that carefree butterfly was really Zhuangzi who dreamed he was a butterfly, or was it a butterfly who dreamed he was Zhuangzi!

Was Zhuangzi the butterfly, or was the butterfly Zhungzi?"

(From a google search)”

“Not a tequila search, pac.”

“I don't want to pluck your butterfly wings steve, but I still think the obvious choice is ...

"bacpac was here"”

“Behavioral and social scientists often dismiss the elaborate motivations ascribed to human behavior in favor of simpler explanations.

For example, musicians often attribute lofty artistic, sometimes mystical inspirations for their complex works of art. But the behavioral scientist sees it otherwise:

Mozart creates elaborate works of music not to satisfy an artistic need in himself or to contribute to the advancement of humanity, but to make his mark, or mark his territory. Then Beethoven comes along later and makes his own mark, not unlike two dogs spotting their territory:

Mozart (Fido): "Mozart here."

Beethoven (Rover): "Beethoven here."

Then: "bacpac was here"”

“Since the "Favorites" thread got me to peruse my 1937 volume of Dorothy Parker's collected poems, I'll pass on an appropriate verse that would be of the right era for the furniture as well:

"Inscription for the Ceiling
of a Bedroom"

Daily dawns another day;
I must up, to make my way.
Though I dress and drink and eat,
Move my fingers and my feet,
Learn a little, here and there,
Weep and laugh and sweat and swear,
Hear a song, or watch a stage,
Leave some words upon a page,
Claim a foe, or hail a friend--
Bed awaits me at the end.

Though I go in pride and strength,
I'll come back to bed at length.
Though I walk in blinded woe,
Back to bed I'm bound to go.
High my heart, or bowed my head,
All my days but lead to bed.
Up, and out, and on; and then
Ever back to bed again,
Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall--
I'm a fool to rise at all!

Newgirl -- perhaps the "High my heart, or bowed my head,/All my days but lead to bed" would be the couplet to quote.”

“OK, newghoul. If you don't use this one, I will:

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

-Robert Frost”

“When I am weary, be the pillow where I rest my head
Be moonlight in my window, shining softly on my bed
On lonely nights, lie down with me and hold me for a while
And when my sleep is fitful, be the dream that makes me smile.

Original by Me”

“Aero, I almost posted that stanza from Frost, until I thought of the verse from my own poem. In fact you posted it while I was looking for it on the WWW.”

“Omahiker, I love your poem. Did you put in on any artwork in your room?

Newgirl, I would use Omahiker's poem, or the third section or stanza from HPM's quoting of Stephen Foster.”

“I heard a good one last night...

"Shut up and go to sleep!"

LOL”

“Tilt needs to move away from his mama.”

“OmaHiker, that's a great poem!

Or, how about:

Lala salama...

(Sleep in peace, in Swahili, as on the other thread.)”

“ooooooooooo... noooooooooooo... Not Mom!


What did Robin Williams say?

"Oedipus! Shmoedipus! I still love ya Mom!


(That might be taken the wrong way, Fritz, LOL)”

“You're innocent when you dream.

Tom Waits”

“Sorry, Tilt, LOL. I say "Stop talking and go to sleep" to my kids several times a night! (We try not to say "shut up" because it sounds terrible when they use the expression)”

“How bout, "Semper Fidelis"

No, that would work for you.”

“Here is a quote for tehipite...

"Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions .But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."
- Bernard Baruch”

“Is that a fact!?”

“uh oh.”

“And to all, a good night.

Santa Claus”

“Griz, I love that French one. Aero, your suggestion was also a beautiful one. Bacpac, what exactly does Semper Fidelis mean? I've been trying to find that out for a long time and I never thought to ask you.”

“so, what's the length limit on the quote, newgirl?”

“good idea, by the way!”

“Semper Fidelis = Always Faithful


Guess that crack kinda eliminates the chances for the "bacpac was here" inscription, huh?”

“LOL! i like the Tennyson quote, Violin.”