Quotes of: Wake-up Keyword

A story must be judged according to whether it . And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to...

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If ...

The Poisonwood Bible

I'm far from the world and I see it like a brightly lit ball in the distance. The sky behind it is mostly gray. It starts in silence, but I can see the people. Everyone is in a hurry. They're racing around the globe. They each hold a thread, like a b...

Uses for Boys

For God's sake, if I learned anything during this damn trial it's that the only way someone can leave you is if you let them. And I'm not doing that, Dee. It may look like that today, or tomorrow, or even a month from now, but one day you're going to...

Vanishing Acts

Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you're 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn't go swimming in those warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable...

Anne Lamott

If you were not cast into the abyss, you would have never groped, reached as far as you could reach, to grasp for anything that you could possibly touch, anything that you could possibly feel brushing against your fingertips! Funny how in the darknes...

C. JoyBell C.

The hungry fowl wakes early.

Jamaican

When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.

Romanian

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

A companion on a caffeine high will wake me up just as well, without the aftertaste.

Incarnate

I can feel that I'm in a dream, but I can't wake myself up.

The Darkest Light

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Dr. Seuss

I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

Les Baxter

Dreamers must dream on as long as the nightmare wakes them up to greet with a bucketful of reality

Munia Khan

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

Eduardo Galeano

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

Gail Porter

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

John Hope

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

Patti Smith

I'm knackered. I'm knackered all the time. My stupid, tiny children wake me up at 5:48 A.M. every single morning.

Robert Webb

For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no pr...

Me Talk Pretty One Day

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's...

Ayumi Hamasaki