Waking Quotes - Page 17

• I don't remember any dream. All I remember is waking up and feeling that there had been a change while I was sleeping.

  Brice Marden

  Dream, Sleep, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  One Day, Musician, Different

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• High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it. It's at the time where everybody is waking up with different opinions every day, and you're on this learning curve of who you are and who you want to be, and you're comparing yourself with every other male and female around you. There's no sense to it.

  Kristen Bell

  School, Curves, Insecurity

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Dream, Morning

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• I just love life. I'm excited about things in life. I think that if you're excited about life, you are excited about waking up and doing things with your life every day.

  Salma Hayek

  Love Life, Thinking, Things In Life

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• There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out.

  Harry Shearer

  Emotional, Guy, Would Be

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• I like smoking at home. I like it to be one of the last things I do that day. I don't wake and bake at all; I couldn't do that. If I'm waking and baking, then I'm staying inside my place the rest of the day. I can't start my day off high.

  Hannibal Buress

  Home, Smoking, Days Off

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• I usually record all through the night, but I'm known for waking up early in the morning. Even if I had recorded till 3 or 4 in the morning I might wake up at 9 or 10. I never sleep till 1 o clock.

  Gucci Mane

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called "Body and Soul."

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Home, People, Soul

  Source: www.mightycompanions.org

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• Lady beware. Fan not the harmless glow Of admiration into ardent love, Lean not with red curled smiling lips above The flickering spark of sinless flame, and blow, Lest in the sudden waking of desire Thou, like the child, shalt perish in the fire.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Children, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.941, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose it never happened to any one to be conscious of the immediate transition from the waking to the sleeping state.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Death, Sleep, Transition

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.19

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• Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

  William Gibson

  Dream, Sleep, Naps

  "William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211". Interviewed with David Wallace-Wells, www.theparisreview.org. 2011.

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• Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.

  B. C. Forbes

  Beautiful, Work, Home

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• Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart.

  Dodie Smith

  Heart, Eye, Worst Times

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.264, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements gang up behind or beneath the ego's awareness and immerse it in a waking dream of something Other, an alien world-order similar to ancient irrationalist cultures (in transition from primitivism to civilized mythos-culture).

  Kenny Smith

  Dream, Writing, Order

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• It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

  Franz Kafka

  Heart, Eye, Presence Of Mind

  Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (1981). “The Metamorphosis”, Bantam Classics

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• There's part of our brain that we shut off when we're in the studio. There's part of our brain that we turn on when we are out doing an interview or promoting something or waking up at six in the morning for hair and makeup.

  Taylor Swift

  Morning, Makeup, Hair

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.

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• Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Long, Soul

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• Waking love suffereth no sleepe:
  Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke:
  Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

  Edmund Spenser

  Passion, Rage

  Edmund Spenser (1822). “The poems of Edmund Spenser”, p.10

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• What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Eye, Men

  George Santayana (1998). “The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays”, p.139, U of Nebraska Press

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• At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Dream, Insane

  'Easter-Day' (1850) l. 479

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• Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.

  Mason Cooley

  Freedom, Sleep, World

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• Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck,
  And hear a cry from a reeling deck!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, Wrecks, Cry

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.226

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• A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is
  not waking thoughts although it is written and thought
  with waking thoughts. But really a novel goes as
  dreams go in sleeping at night and some dreams are like
  anything and some dreams are like something and some
  dreams change and some dreams are quiet and some dreams
  are not. And some dreams are just what any one would
  do only a little different always just a little
  different and that is what a novel is.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• I will try to be non-violent
  one more day
  this morning, waking the world away
  in the violent day.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Morning, Trying, Violence

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.137, Northwestern University Press

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