"For the first time in history, vitually every human being is subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from birth to death." -rachel carson, Silent Spring 1962
"If you tried to give rock n' roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'" -john lennon 1955
"If I made Cinderella, the audience would be looking out for a body in the coach. -alfred hitchcock 1960
"When I hear chords not in tune, I just can't stand it. It's like spilling tomato sause on a white shirt." - pierre bolez 1971
"The man who dies rich, dies disgraced." -andrew carnegie 1913
"So the lunatics have taken over the asylum." -movie mogul richard rowland, on hearing the formation of United Artists 1919
"Sufferagettes believe that the horrible evils which are ravaging our civilization will never be removed until women get the vote!" -emmeline pankurst 1903
Elias Howe - Inventor
Even the sewing machine owes it's invention to a dream. Elias Howe was stuck for a solution for a working model. One night he dreamed that a savage king ordered him to invent a sewing machine. When Howe said that he'd tried but couldn't, the whole tribe raised their spears to kill him. Just before the fateful moment, Howe noticed that each spear had a hole in it just above the point. This was the vital clue needed for the commercial perfection of the sewing machine.
Julius Caesar - Roman Emperor
Nineteen centuries before Freud, the night before Julius Caesar led his army across the Rubicon River to attack Rome, he dreamed that he slept with his mother. Caesar interpreted this dream to mean that the invasion would succeed.
Marie Antoinette - Queen of France
Some time before the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette, the wife of LouisXVI of France, dreamed of a glowing red sun rising above a column, like a temple pillar. She heard a loud "crack" as the column split in two and fell to the ground. The dream was understood to be a symbol representing the fall of the monarchy. She was guillotined in 1793.
Source: The Hidden Meaning Of Dreams - Craig Hamilton-Parker
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Unfortunately, he later failed to heed the dream warning of his wife, Calpurina, who warned him to "beware the Ides of March". On March 15th 44BC , Caesar was assassinated in the Senate by republicans, including Brutus and Cassius, who feared his monarchical aspirations.