Famous Quotes & Sayings

For 'The Big Wander,' I probably had ten different outlines before I made myself start writing. I would sleep on each one, thinking it was wonderful, but I would always awake perceiving some flaw.

Sandra Cisneros

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.

Kelly McCreary

I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently.

Brad Garrett

You know what's spooky about this location is that if you look down the hill, you can see a house, a road with traffic. And if you were here and you were injured in such a way that you couldn't move, you're actually watching people go by and you can't call out to them to come help you because they're too far away. That whole thought is just very eerie and spooky to me, that if, in fact, you were awake but immobile that would be how your life would end.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened from the dream of life -- 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

Our job is to awaken the wealth of the community to do something in their own community.

Spiritually, the Holy Land really stirs you up and starts awakening many things in your life.

Bruce Babbitt

That book really awakened people to what was going on,

I think everyone would be more worried if we played at 10 a.m.. College guys are a lot more awake at 10 p.m. I think the key is to not make a big deal of it. You stay in the same routine (as you would for a normal 7 p.m. game), you just push everything back three hours.

I think a lot (of the increase) has come about because physicians don't want to be awakened in the middle of the night, so they schedule patients when it is convenient.

Mark Twain

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake

Larry Kramer

There is an awakening occurring at the traditional media companies.

George Tenet

I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.

David Cameron

The only thing that's been disrupted are sleep patterns around here. We've all been working 16 or 18 hours a day, and either you don't get enough sleep when you try, or you stay awake wondering what needs to be done next.

Daniel Woodrell

I rise near dawn, make a strong cup of coffee, wander to my desk and come fully awake by reading something written the day before.

Anne Lamott

Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

Alexander MacLaren

I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.

Deepak Chopra

Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.

That was our first NCL loss. It's not just losing in the NCL. It's losing in general. That lost might have been an awakening for some people.

I was awake doing some work when I heard what sounded like a crack from outside at 5.50 am,

I was awake a long time. I just laid there, wondering if someone was going to find me ... praying that I would live ... but not wanting to live. It was probably the craziest 13 hours ... just laying there not being able to move.

Angelus Silesius

The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.

We had all just participated in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life at the high school, when we stay awake for about 24 hours straight. We were a little sleepy.

One name always stands out when it comes to actors taking on the monsters of our nightmares - Robert Englund. In the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series, Englund kept us awake as night with a striped shirt and his special glove.

Of course terror has a role in the disengagement. It convinced us that Gaza was not worth holding onto and awakened us to the demographic danger. It took two intifadas for a majority of Israelis to decide that Gaza is not worth it.

My husband and I did what we could after Katrina. We donated to the Red Cross and the Humane Society. But I kept thinking about the birds. It kept me awake at night, wondering how I could help them.

My eyes are open & my heart beats but I cannot be awake for this is surely a nightmare

Deepak Chopra

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

Deepak Chopra

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.

Some are awake and not aware of their surroundings; others are comatose. They need hands-on care; they can't care for themselves. Many have been with us for years.

No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him

Koren Robinson

Let's face it, I could have killed myself, and my family, my mother who means so much to me, would have spent the rest of her life mourning me. Or worse yet, I could have killed some innocent people and their families would have then suffered a great loss. Lay awake at night and think about that for a while. If that doesn't scare you, then something's wrong with you.

Sessions began at 7:50 a.m., and (Alice) beat me there ... always awake and happy.