But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
Do I wake up every day and thank God that I live in 21st-century Britain? Of course not. But from time to time, I recognise it as an unfathomable privilege.
I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.
What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.
I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'
The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.
I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.
There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.
You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I have this couch and I have this life and... is this going to be my prison?
Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning.
I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.
I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.
I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.
Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
The very FIRST Step to making your dreams come true....is to wake up from sleep.
I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
That satisfying moment when you wake up and notice that you're living out your dream..
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
