Quotes of: Wakes Keyword

'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

Robin Wasserman

Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I'd scared myself alive.

Koren Zailckas

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Frederick Henry Hedge

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

James Allen

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

Tim Duncan

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

Brian McKnight

Dream as big as you desire, but don't forget to wake yourself from it with some consistent effective actions.

Edmond Mbiaka

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

John Byrne

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

Bill Walsh

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

Henry Hazlitt

God is taking a nap within my soul. I ponder whether to wake Him or not.

Harley King

It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.

Bruce Forsyth

It's time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end the wholesale slaughter of America's horses once and for all.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Michael Sullivan: [to Junior] Michael, it's a wake. So I don't want to see those dice.

Road to Perdition

Speed Levitch: On really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.

Waking Life

Pinball Playing Man: There's only one instant, and it's right now. And it's eternity.

Waking Life

Young Girl Playing Paper Game: Dream is destiny.

Waking Life

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.

Bryan Clay