Quotes About A Midsummer Night's Dream

#1. I've been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The opening track is a choral section where all the weird fairies, who are played by kids in the production, sing. It's a crazy opening melody and chord sequence - really amazing.

Dev Hynes

#2. WHAT WAS LOST IN THE COLLAPSE: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. Twilight in the altered world, a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in a parking lot in the mysteriously named town of St. Deborah by the Water, Lake Michigan shining a half mile away.

Emily St. John Mandel

#3. A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

Stephen King

#4. Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.

Kenneth Branagh

#5. I love 'Richard III,' but in terms of a general play, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' has always been a big one for me. It's just so sexy.

Sean Maher

#6. If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.

Jasper Fforde

#7. The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

Ed Speleers

#8. I'll follow thee and make a heaven out of hell, To die by your hand which I love so well." - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Maegan Abel

#9. A Midsummer Night's Dream remains an enchanting work after four hundred years, but few would argue that it cuts to the very heart of human behaviour. What it does do is take, and give, a positive satisfaction in the joyous possibilities of verbal expression.

Bill Bryson

#10. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.

Kenneth Branagh

#11. You mean like some kind of A Midsummer Night's Dream shtick? For real?

Carrie Vaughn

#12. A Midsummer Night's Dream?" "Of course," said Clarence. "A great piece on love.

Richelle Mead

#13. But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy, lie further off." - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream The

Connie Willis

#14. N MY early boyhood I was enraptured by the great fairytale illustrators of the period: Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Kay Nielsen. As a schoolboy, I was to discover Aubrey Beardsley, and I was extremely fond of an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with most imaginative drawings by Heath Robinson,

John Gielgud

#15. To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.

Michael Dirda

#16. I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'

Daniel Radcliffe

#17. I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Blythe Danner

#18. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets.

Robert Gottlieb

#19. Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.

Marie Lu

#20. Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

William Shakespeare

#21. I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Max Beckmann

#22. Still, to paraphrase what John Stuart Mill said about the stupidity of the Tories, while not all people who claim to be politically incorrect are assholes, it's exactly the sort of thing an asshole is apt to say. (183)

Geoffrey Nunberg

#23. I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#24. The future is open, and I never make plans. As long as it's interesting to me, I try to live my life to the fullest.

Ann Demeulemeester

#25. It's deeply un-American, you know, not to make small talk. It's a very important part of the culture of this country.

Anonymous

#26. Were the world mine...

Shakespeare Society

#27. The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.

Blake Mycoskie

#28. It's the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.

Amanda Craig

#29. Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;
And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.

William Shakespeare

#30. I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'

Zoe Tapper

#31. I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them has grace, like every moment in their company is a gift. But Finn did. Finn, my midsummer night's dream.

Jane Lotter

#32. Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#33. Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth,
But either it was different in blood-

William Shakespeare

#34. I sit here with you now with one sure answer. Love is the most potent bond, the most elaborate trap, the most irresistible object, and the most lethal weapon. I am everything with it, and nothing without it.

Suenammi Richards

#35. Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

Gail Simmons

#36. If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing.

Darin Strauss

#37. I considered several names, but Titania, a character from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', was best able to portray the image I wanted for what is a fantastically elegant and sexy yacht.

John Caudwell

#38. Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand,
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare

#39. I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing I learned was: Never let go of the girl's leg, no matter how hard she tries to shake you off.

Steve Martin

#40. We will meet; and there we may rehearse most
obscenely and courageously.
Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2

William Shakespeare