Top 76 Quotes About Yawning: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Yawning

#1. A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking.

#2. There's a pause so yawning I can't help but think about what it would be like to lean in and kiss her, but if I'm getting the signals wrong then I'm about to destroy the best run we've had all evening. It's been at least ten minutes since I've done or said anything stupid.

Leanne Hall

#3. He had no idea what missing was. Missing was lying in the dampness of your tears night after night. Missing was a constant hollow spot in the center of your chest. Missing was a yawning ache that was never satisfied.

Denise Hunter

#4. Johnny, yawning still, burst into noisy tears and was slapped by Bill till he choked on them.

William Golding

#5. Exploratory wells located invariably by a set of deterministic seismic interpretations are drilled into reservoirs under uncertainty that is invariably poorly quantified, the geologic models yawning to be optimized by a mindset that is educated in a data-driven methodology.

Keith Holdaway

#6. How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.

C.J. Sansom

#7. Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
Put a live chicken in your underwear,
Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.

Steve Martin

#8. I get scared thinking about the yawning void of space and the maddening smallness of our solar system in it, and the smallness of our planet in that solar system and of my own voice in the dark.

Joey Comeau

#9. During the last few years of her life Mrs. Willowes grew continually more skilled in evading responsibilities, and her death seemed but the final perfected expression of this skill. It was as if she had said, yawning a delicate cat's yawn, "I think I will go to my grave now," and had left the room.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#10. I'm kind of a contagion cryer. You know how when one person starts yawning, everyone else starts yawning too? Or when someone vomits, the smell makes you want to hurl? I'm like that, except with crying.

Nicola Yoon

#11. When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

Jim Rash

#12. War was about yawning chasms of inactivity, punctuated by brief, screaming interludes of action. And in those brief, screaming interludes, events happened both quickly and with dreamlike slowness, every instant burned into memory.

Alastair Reynolds

#13. Had he not suffered unscathed the fearful dooms of all the offended gods, of all the histories, fire, brimstone, and yawning earthquakes, plague, and pestilence? Had he not stood, like the Pompeian sentry, while the Citadels of the Plain fell to ruin about his ears?

Evelyn Waugh

#14. Come on, hurry up, snailpaws," Toklo growled at Lusa. He poked her in the side with his nose. "Where's all that annoying early-morning cheerfulness you're usually so full of?"
"Well, maybe if you hadn't woken me up by dropping a fish on my head," Lusa protested, yawning.

Erin Hunter

#15. A yawning hole deep inside me was begging to be filled up with words and thoughts and ideas and facts and fictions.
Callum McGregor

Malorie Blackman

#16. I wish people were nicer, she says softly before yawning. Me fucking too.

Krista Ritchie

#17. Anybody who's in the dressing room after the show always says, "Oh, my God, I was kind of worried that the show was going to be sleepy because you were half asleep, yawning, and not really present."

Martina Sorbara

#18. Then to Misty's Spice Boutique for food so bland and inambitious I doubt it'll ever aspire to become shit. It'll probably just sit in my colon yawning

M. Suddain

#19. You're in trouble,' she says, yawning. 'Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

Toni Morrison

#20. There was no wire across in those days, no big house on the other side; nothing but the open yap of the planet, yawning as if bored by the pace of evolution.

Tom Robbins

#21. I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

Josephine Baker

#22. Worldlings may well be afraid, for they have an angry God above them, a guilty conscience within them, and a yawning hell beneath them; but we who rest in Jesus are saved from all these through rich mercy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. Obviously, she thought, angling her head up to the second story, where filthy windows clouded with dust and decay seemed to transform into yawning faces with soulless eyes.

Jessica Lemmon

#24. Yawning, I stumbled off the trolley after him and tried to get
out of the way of people rushing aboard. Apparently manners weren' t a thing of the past.
They' d never existed at all.

Tamara Allen

#25. 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

#26. The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

Mason Cooley

#27. Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

Stendhal

#28. There are several short intervals during the day, between studies and pleasures: instead of sitting idle and yawning, in those intervals, take up any book, though ever so trifling a one, even down to a jest-book; it is still better than doing nothing.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

Hillary Jordan

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

William Beckford

#31. If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession.

Loren Eiseley

#32. By midnight Theresa was yawning steadily, and Garrett suggested that she get some sleep.
"But I came down here to see you," she protested drowsily.
"But if you don't get your sleep, I'll look blurry.

Nicholas Sparks

#33. Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.

Jeremy Clarkson

#34. Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning - there's no entertainment here.

Nikolay Davydenko

#35. But he was incapable of shame.He had no conscience or soul.No heart, either.That has broken and died years ago.The leftover pieces had petrified in his chest, leaving stone shrapnel in a black, empty place that felt nothing.Just a yawning void of nothing.And he liked it that way ...

Charlotte Featherstone

#36. You don't like this quite country life?" inquired Mrs. Condiment.
"No; no better than I do a quiet country grave-yard. I don't want to return to dust before my time, I tell you," said Cap, yawning dismally over her work.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

#37. Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

V.S. Pritchett

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

Josephine Tey

#39. There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.

Joseph Heller

#40. You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

John McLaughlin

#41. Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Marcus Aurelius

#42. There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God.

Sri Chinmoy

#43. Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

George Herbert Mead

#44. They were talking about things that didn't matter a fig, not with the huge yawning grief burning a hole in his chest because of what had happened to her. To Josie. His Josie, now.

Eloisa James

#45. It is the obscene horror, the dry, fucked-out aspect of things which makes this crazy civilization look like a crater. It is this great yawning gulf of nothingness which the creative spirits and mothers of the race carry between their legs.

Henry Miller

#46. The faintly lit hatchway lay in the dark of the yard like a grave yawning at judgement day in some old apocalyptic painting.

Cormac McCarthy

#47. There is a sort of consolation at the contemplation of the yawning abyss, at the bottom of which lie darkness and obscurity. Edmond

Alexandre Dumas

#48. I don't know how you look at the inside of your head - what metaphor you choose - but for those of us with endless yawning stretches of interior and nothing but nothing to stop us from getting lost in it, drugs can be wonderfully helpful.

James St. James

#49. bread slathered in it on the griddle. Belinda poured some coffee, yawning as she dumped spoonfuls

Amy Saunders

#50. Please, your story, or I shall offend the dignitaries of my kingdom by yawning at holy things.

Diana Wynne Jones

#51. He had lived to please himself instead of God all those years, giving little more than lip service to His holy laws. And now when Zechariah cried out to God, his numberless sins swallowed up his prayers before they reached heaven. His guilt filled the yawning gulf between him and God.

Lynn Austin

#52. The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

V.S. Pritchett

#53. Yawning, Aden rubbed his eyes, blinked three more times, and yawned again. "Without breakfast? I never run away on an empty stomach.

Jack Lewis Baillot

#54. It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

John Buchan

#55. We are not just tickling the dragon's tail; we are timing a flyby through its open jaws while it is yawning.

Marko Kloos

#56. A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine line, I actually think there's a yawning gulf. You see some poor bugger scuffling up the road with balloons tied to his ears, he's not going home to invent a rocket, is he?

Bill Bailey

#57. It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that one is an insect, crawling across a page of the Encyclopedia Britannica, knowing only that something vast is passing by beneath, all without your sensing more than a yawning vacancy.

Gregory Benford

#58. I'm not asleep," Jane reassured her. "I'm thinking about the story." "I heard every word," said Michael, yawning. The Park Keeper rocked, as if in a trance. "A Nex-plorer in disguise," he murmured, "sittin' in the midnight sun and climbin' the North Pole!" "Ouch!

P.L. Travers

#59. A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of being allowed to pursue "something higher"- stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over their books.

Milan Kundera

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

Criss Jami

#61. The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

Orson Welles

#62. 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.

H.P. Lovecraft

#63. The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.

Dr. Seuss

#64. Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.

Laurie Lee

#65. Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written while yawning.

Marcel Proust

#66. What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.

Mikhail Lermontov

#67. There was the faintest of sounds, as of a gnat yawning.

Terry Pratchett

#68. Hell isn't some fiery pit "down there." It's right here on Earth, in every dirty city, every yawning town.

Ellen Hopkins

#69. Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Adam McKay

#70. 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.

Nenia Campbell