Waking Quotes - Page 23

• "Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Real, Thinking

  "Through the Looking-Glass". Book by Lewis Carroll, ch. 4, 1871.

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• After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

  Casey Affleck

  East, Wake Up, Moved

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

  William James

  Lying, Special, Different

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.349, Library of America

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• I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Tired, Night

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• Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

  Rodney King

  Good Day, Sober Up, Wake Up

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

  Anne Lamott

  Morning, Wish, Age

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• Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.

  Annie Lennox

  Ideas, Challenges, Essentials

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• If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

  Rene Magritte

  Dream, Art, Waking Life

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• More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Responsibility, Impact

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• There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fear, Equality, Wake Up

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Mind, Wake Up

  "Conversations with Henry Miller".

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• We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Book, Sleep

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• Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Memories, Moving

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• But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.

  Kinky Friedman

  Running, Dream, Morning

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• It was a good hald minute before I looked over at Todd. his eyes were slightly foggy, like he was waking up- reluctantly- from a lascivious dream. "I didn't know they still made them like that," he said.... "Cool, tough, retro-manly. The kind who only cries if someone just ran over their dog. The big chested guy we can indulge our pathetic Daddy complexes with.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dream, Dog, Eye

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• And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Color, Dawn

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Dark, Sacrifice

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.27, Vintage

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• What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Night, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of the senses, in love with beauty and power, oblivious to herself -- and then suddenly, bingo, she wakes up and feels herself alive. She notices her own awareness. And she notices that she is set down here, mysteriously, in a going world.

  Annie Dillard

  Dream, Children, Loving Life

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• I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg's blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Morning, Guy

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• My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

  Jesse Jackson

  Mother, Father, Soldier

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• We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Death, Suicide, Dream

  Journal, 25 Oct. 1836

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• At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

  Maya Angelou

  Wake Up, Knows

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• These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Heartbreak, Morning, Flower

  "A las flores". Poem by Pedro Calderon de la Barca,

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• For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.

  Bob Beauprez

  Running, Country, Home

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