Risers Quotes

#1. Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they're lookin' there; throw it there when they're lookin' here.

Satchel Paige

#2. Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

Caroline Llewellyn

#3. At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of "getting up earlier than the other fellow." But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers.

Evelyn Waugh

#4. War makes early risers of us all.

Julian Fellowes

#5. Coffee is for winners, go-getters, tea-ignorers, lunch-cancellers, early-risers, guilt-ridden strivers, money obsessives and status-driven spiritually empty lunatics. It is an enervating force. We should resist it and embrace tea, the ancient drink of poets, philosophers and meditators.

Tom Hodgkinson

#6. Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. Poor lighting, absence of handrails, confusing patterns on the treads, risers that are unusually high or low, treads that are unusually wide or narrow, and landings that interrupt the rhythm of ascent or descent are the principal design faults that lead to accidents.

Bill Bryson

#8. Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?

Robert Ripley

#9. Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.

Bernie Taupin

#10. The carpeting on the stair risers caught, racing up to the first-floor level as if to tell dreadful good news.

Stephen King

#11. Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon.

Rose Henniker Heaton

#12. Just head over to the risers, Lady America," she said. "You may sit anywhere you like. So you know, most of the girls have already claimed the front row." She looked sorry for me, as if she were delivering bad news.
"Oh, thank you," I said, and went happily to take a seat in the back.

Kiera Cass

#13. I rose and turned to go. Over my shoulder, I said, "Go to hell, Aric." "Already here, wife.

Kresley Cole

#14. No. I grew a beard because no one was around to teach us boys how to shave." .

Penny Reid

#15. At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.

Douglas Coupland

#16. I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one.

Audrey Tautou

#17. His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.

Jentezen Franklin

#18. Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.

Chogyam Trungpa

#19. Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies.

Thomas Hardy

#20. I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.

Jenny Eclair

#21. I guess in some people's lives, no one tells you what to be, and so you be nothing.

James Franco

#22. I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

Stephen Dunn

#23. Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.

Catherynne M Valente