Top 100 Quotes About Wakes
#1. A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.
Victor J. Banis
#3. No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.
Michael K. Williams
#4. Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.
Pierce Brown
#5. The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature.
Nhat Hanh
#6. Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.
Anthony Bourdain
#7. It was like being drawn slowly from the serene darkness, the way one wakes up when they've been having a lovely dream and their subconscious is struggling to hold them there, just a little while longer.
Marissa Meyer
#8. Temptation isn't a vice you triumph over once, completely, and then you're free. Temptation slips into bed with you each night and helps you say prayers. It wakes you in the morning with a friendly cup of coffee, and knows just the way you take it, heavy on the sin.
Karen Marie Moning
#9. I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.
Pitbull
#10. A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.
Andrew O'Hagan
#11. I'll leave before anyone wakes up. Promise." "They'll hear us," I said, my heart pounding in growing panic. "I'll take off my boots." "How will that help you keep your mouth shut while we have sex?
Missy Welsh
#12. Tea, for me, is one of the great subjects. It is a romatic trade, it does not pollute excessively, it has all sorts of health benefits, it calms and wakes you up at the same time.
Alexander McCall Smith
#13. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes;
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
John Dryden
#14. Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being
not a slave's
coursing through his veins.
Anton Chekhov
#15. And also the idea of not making it apparent that it's different from the rest of the film, even though there are visual differences, the audience is supposed to think that they are with him when he wakes up in the morning.
Charlie Kaufman
#16. Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.
Jennifer Weiner
#17. Music. I live it and breathe it. It wakes me up in the morning, puts me to sleep at night and is with me all day.
David Guetta
#18. Blake peers around Amelia's shoulder. "He looks like Sleeping Beauty."
"Don't ever say that to his face," says Wolfboy."Actually, do. If he wakes up, promise me you'll say that to his face.
Leanne Hall
#19. I shiver and Tom wakes. It's light enough to see his eyes open.
"Are you cold?" he says. "Baby, are you cold?"
He turns so that his arms are around me again. Baby, are cold?-and the ball of hurt inside me swells.
Alison McGhee
#20. Not everyone who sleeps, wakes up the next day. You are blessed.Be happy.
Manoj Arora
#21. I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#22. It is a cold and harrowing morning in the life of a man the day he wakes up, looks at himself in the mirror, and finally realizes that he is not, never has been, nor will ever be George Clooney.
Ted Heller
#23. It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.
William Stafford
#24. Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#25. A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late.
Sandra Gulland
#26. I'd go to a more civil party just to socialize, and I didn't know what to do with myself. So I drank a shot of tequila. And then I drank another one. I probably had four or five shots. I was like, "Tequila! It wakes you right up!" But no.
Kurt Vile
#27. I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.
Lorde
#28. A Muzak version of 'Imagine' comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.
David Mitchell
#29. Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.
Robert Jordan
#31. Seriously,let me talk to her when she wakes up. Girl-to-girl."
"No offense, Chas, but you'd scare the crap out of her."
"Want to say that to my face, Coalhouse?"
"What's left of it.
Lia Habel
#32. I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil."
George Saunders
#33. There are two times of day in which artistic misanthropes thrive: after everyone else goes to bed, and before everyone else wakes up.
Brandon Gene Petit
#34. When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
Sue Monk Kidd
#35. The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.
David Carr
#36. C. On that cloudless Saturday morning, Madeline wakes up and sees Jonathan lying beside her, then decides that she's probably going to end up loving him forever.
Joe Meno
#37. Morning sunrise wakes me up
with rays of hope.
Clouds of fear can hide the sun
but not for long.
If rays of hope are strong
and patience is a song,
then hope will bloom and
rain will bring a rainbow.
Debasish Mridha
#38. You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
Alfred North Whitehead
#39. We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.
Grace Williams
#40. People tend to remember their dreams in the morning a little bit better and if earlier in the night, when you're in a lot of deep sleep, if someone wakes you, or the phone rings or something, you're really confused.
Shelby Harris
#41. She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth.
Roman Payne
#43. What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.
Francis Collins
#44. I can't keep a baby," A.J. says firmly. "I haven't slept in two nights. She's a terrorist! She wakes up at, like, insane times. Three forty-five in the morning seems to be when her day begins. I live alone. I'm poor. You can't raise a baby on books alone.
Gabrielle Zevin
#45. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine,
Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine
For me kind nature wakes her genial power,
Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
Alexander Pope
#46. The brightest star on a cloudless night
Some kind of miracle, almost empty sky ...
Just as the bite of the blade wakes the absent mind
There's time to dream and there's time to open your eyes
Dave Matthews
#47. Lack of concentration makes one tired, while concentration wakes one up.
Erich Fromm
#48. Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
Iris Murdoch
#49. Vicke is so fat that she wakes up in sections.
John Cena
#50. No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#51. The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.
Murray Louis
#52. If he wakes up, I swear I'll do anything. I'll open gates, I'll help all the paranormals, I'll
never judge people wearing Crocs again. Just let him wake up. Please.
Kiersten White
#53. We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.
Shaun Hick
#54. I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
Raymond Chandler
#55. What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [ ... ] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing.
Rachel Vincent
#56. The town wakes early, like it does every day; small towns need a head start if they're going to have any chance in the world.
Fredrik Backman
#57. I hope everyone wakes up and appreciates life.
Jason Mraz
#58. Spring still makes spring in the mind
When sixty years are told:
Love wakes anew this throbbing heart,
And we are never old
Over the winter glaciers
I see the summer glow
And through the wind-piled snowdrift
The warm rosebuds below.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#60. I like knowing what makes people tick and wakes me stop ticking, like clocks.
Jay Coles
#61. I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.
Alice McDermott
#62. I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain.
Christine Quinn
#63. Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I'm here.
Lance Armstrong
#64. Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
Edward Hoagland
#65. Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a 'dream' is going crazy.
R.D. Laing
#66. It only wakes up the burning desire I always feel whenever I'm close to this man and the shadows of my fears back away. - Skye
Stephanie Witter
#67. Death wakes up from a snooze, checks his pocket watch, and sighs.
Ishbelle Bee
#69. When one wakes up in the morning, one's whole life is neatly laid out, consistent with the past, to the degree that we even (apparently) remember the same language spoken the day before, suggesting previous experience had simply entered a dormant state.
James R. Swartz
#70. Late one day James and I watch the sun fly across the sky like a basketball on fire until it falls down completely and lands in Benjamin Lake with a splash and shakes the ground and even wakes up Lester FallsApart who thought it was his father come back to slap his face again.
Sherman Alexie
#71. If ever the day comes when he wakes beside me and my name doesn't come to his lips, when that bewildered look in his eyes doesn't fade away, I'll remember for us both. I won't let him forget the life we built together. I won't let him go.
J.M. Snyder
#72. I love cleansing my face in the mornings and at night using Bliss Foaming Facial Wash. It makes my skin feel soft, and the refreshing smell always wakes me up.
Bethany Mota
#73. The only good thing, is that the cold wakes her up and she doesn't have to struggle to stay conscious. The bad thing, is that the numbness is fading away now, and her whole body is racked with pain.
Amy Lunderman
#74. The Spirit is more than just one of God's gifts among others; the Holy Spirit is the unrestricted presence of
God in which our life wakes up, becomes wholly and entirely living, and is endowed with the energies of life.
Jurgen Moltmann
#75. Wisdom is Awakening
The wise man wakes up and takes nothing for granted ~
even waking up.
Beryl Dov
#76. When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.
Jean Ingelow
#77. It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
Anne Baxter
#79. She feels like a circus clown who wakes up one morning and no longer wants to glue on the red rubber nose.
Christina Baker Kline
#80. You'd be surprised." Charlie said.
"You go to bed one night singing her a lullaby, and she wakes up listening to Limp Bizkit."
"What the hell is Limp Bizkit?
Jodi Picoult
#81. Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.
Mary Schmich
#82. As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.
Dante Alighieri
#83. The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.
Plato
#84. The emotional equivalent of jet lag is the end of a love affair and yet you, foolish and besotted lover, won't let go. You're still keeping time by his sun and moon, waking when he wakes, and sleeping only when he closes his eyes.
James Oseland
#85. There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
Zhang Ziyi
#86. The horn that wakes the sleepers! The shield that guard the realms of men!
George R R Martin
#87. You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher
#88. He stabs at the mouse mat with one finger and I wince, but instead of fat purple sparks and a hideous soul-sucking manifestation, it simply wakes up his Windows box. (Not that there's much difference.)
Charles Stross
#89. Take care of him, her father had charged her. She had thought - until he wakes. But she began to see what her father had trusted to her, and how very much Sasha needed someone he could trust-
Someone as brave as her father, someone not afraid of him - no matter what.
C.J. Cherryh
#90. Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about despair is that it wakes us up. We can see the world more clearly and open to new possibilities ... And we can find new joy in the ordinary.
Mary Pipher
#91. For we human beings are used to inappropriate things; we are accustomed to the clatter of the incongruous; it is a tune to which we can go to sleep. If one appropriate thing happens, it wakes us up like the pang of a perfect chord.
G.K. Chesterton
#92. You'll be a rumor. A whisper. The thought that wakes the bastards of this world sweating in the nevernight. The last thing you will ever be, girl, is someone's hero.
Jay Kristoff
#93. Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.
Elisabeth Harnois
#94. Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly flames everywhere.
Richard Siken
#95. I want a girl who looks good when she wakes up in the morning. We could take her face and dip it in dough and she'll make some nice-face cookies. Some girls wake up, man, you could put their face in dough and you'll get a gorilla cookie, for real!
Flavor Flav
#96. He cranks the condo's AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic darkness where you're dreading whatever you think of.
David Foster Wallace
#97. Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#98. Snow makes a soft bed, but no man wakes from it. That was the wisdom of the North.
Mark Lawrence
#99. The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
Gary Zukav
#100. I'm jealous of the daylight that will get to see her eyes when she wakes.
Evie Harper
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