Famous Quotes

"I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal."

Nicholson Baker on Dreams

More quotes about Dreams

• "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Dreams

• "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

  Walt Disney on Dreams

• "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."

  T. E. Lawrence on Dreams

• "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

  Harriet Tubman on Dreams

• "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

  James Dean on Dreams

More quotes by Nicholson Baker

• "Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast."

• "When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry."

• "From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound."

• "So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry."