Quotes of: Wake-up Keyword

What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.

Losing Faith

I guess that’s what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn’t. But it is all right.

The Luckiest Girl

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Little Men

The medicine is in the eye of the beholder and right now you be-holding a big ass glass of it. So, shut up and drink your whiskey.

Later That Night

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Lord of the Shadows

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir

Today, when I stepped outside, I got shit on by a bird. But I'm still going back outside tomorrow.

Shut Up and Kiss Me

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

The Story of a New Name

You need a husband and some babies to look after. Otherwise you're going to grow up into a virago...

Spitfire

It is a good man who stands up for his friends, but an honorable man who stands up for his enemies.

The Secret Prince

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good.

Selected Poems

The issue, let’s pick it up in the AM. The mannequin, let’s pick it up now and dance like our stiff moves are cool and by design.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

A real patriot doesn’t unconditionally stick up for his government—he stands up for freedom.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

The smell of sex always reminds me of summer youth camps growing up.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Not everybody can let himself drift along the flow of history. Some of us have to stop to pick up what’s washed up on the banks of the river.

Sophie's World

Sometimes, you know, human kindness just knocks you off your feet.

Somebody Up There Hates You

This was in the good old days, when monsters were fantasy.

Somebody Up There Hates You

Neither my sexuality or my efforts or lack of effort on the football field make up the whole sum of me.

Tigers and Devils

Not knowing when to shut up was one of my greatest faults.

Take It Like A Man: The Autobiography Of Boy George