Quotes of: Yawn Keyword

No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.

Episodes of Vathek

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.

Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

Mudbound

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

The Daughter of Time

Drinking coffee is like drinking an inverse yawn. I prefer mine with two spoonfuls of “I’m listening.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

She tried to insult me in front of the whole party. So what could I do but yawn and walk away?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I used to sell hellos by the wave until I found out Dark Jar Tin Zoo was reselling them on eBay as goodbyes. Now I’m a yawn distributor.

Xazaqazax

You can almost hear people saying, 'We're going to make a movie about an election' and 'We're going to make a movie about a lobbyist.' You can hear the yawning start across the nation.

Kevin Spacey

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Ovid

Hamlet: 'Tis now the very witching time of night, when church yards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.

Hamlet

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

Athol Fugard

Restaurant, bar, night club. . . Eat, drink, walk. . . YAWN. . . For some people, this is ALL they can think of when getting ready for a date. Isn’t a “shortlist” like this enough to make you and your girlfriend want to yawn? Why not fill your ...

ROMANTIC ACTIVITIES AND SURPRISES: 800 DATING IDEAS: An Illustrated Guide for Men

Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo -- and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise.

Mr. Wrong

I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

Nemesis

She asked if I found what she was telling me very exciting, and I managed to yelp out “very” while yawning.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

The conversation was one-sided. She was doing all the talking, and every time I opened my mouth it wasn’t to reply—it was to yawn.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.

Terrorscape

Will you be my formal yawn formation at dawn? One rocking chair nailed to the floor does not make a relationship, if you know what I mean.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Yawn. String-on-a-stick. Fine. I'll come out and chase it to make you happy.

Won-Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest...

Barbara Walters