Top 34 Quotes About Yawns
#2. Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.
Warren Buffett
#3. This bed yawns
beneath the weight
of our absent selves.
Maya Angelou
#4. One question that people always ask at home is never asked here: "What happened to Communism in Russia?" Everybody yawns when a visitor brings it up, because the answer is so obvious to every Russian. The answer is that there never was Communism in Russia; there were only communists.
Arthur Koestler
#5. The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.
Helen Rowland
#6. I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.
Maurice Sendak
#7. No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
Aldous Huxley
#8. Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
Victor Hugo
#9. Between the probable and proved there yawns
A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd,
Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse,
Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns
Our only hope: to leap into the Word
That opens up the shuttered universe.
Sheldon Vanauken
#10. I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
Oscar Wilde
#11. I drive toward it not wanting it getting it getting it as the cat stretches yawns and rolls over into another dream.
Charles Bukowski
#12. Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
Henry George
#13. If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.
Antoine Rivarol
#14. He gave out a big yawn while he said that. Which is something that gives me a royal pain in the ass. I mean if somebody yawns right while they're asking you to do them a goddamn favor.
J.D. Salinger
#15. Damn, I had the best dream," he yawns, "my fantasy girl professed her undying love for me in between several rounds of mind blowing sex.
Maggi Myers
#16. Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings ... Amble out for love
Kobayashi Issa
#17. Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell?
-Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil
W.B.Yeats
#18. Leave your yawns behind you and feel the tiny new breeze of life lighting up inside of you.
Tao Porchon-Lynch
#19. People just ... disappear," he says.
"The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex.
"Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie."
"Ominous." I nod my agreement.
"It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile.
Bret Easton Ellis
#20. Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.
Dennis Lehane
#21. He does not listen for an answer, but yawns, his face opening lewdly upon regions compared with which nudity becomes a milliner's invention.
Mervyn Peake
#23. Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.
Giggles can spread from person to person.
So can blushing.
But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.
Vera Nazarian
#24. As
Vargas Llosa has said, "Democracy is an event that provokes yawns in the countries in which rule of law exists."49
Pope Benedict XVI
#25. The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
Fannie Hurst
#26. He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die
and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.
Dodie Smith
#28. Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
Victor Hugo
#29. The fair Volumnia, being one of those sprightly girls who cannot long continue silent without imminent peril of seizure by the dragon Boredom, soon indicates the approach of that monster with a series of undisguisable yawns. Finding
Charles Dickens
#30. It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.
Lord Chesterfield
#31. There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
Rebecca West
#32. The facility of the entrance into another world is an illusion: you start writing in a rush, anticipating the happiness of a future reading, and the void yawns on the white page.
Italo Calvino
#34. In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand.
Christopher Isherwood
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