Waking Quotes
At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
Maya Angelou
Dreams - are well - but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn - If One wake at Midnight - better - Dreaming - of the Dawn.
Emily Dickinson
If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you.
Gary Gulman
I'm not used to waking up early at all.
Red Gerard
May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.
Henry Ward Beecher
I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.
Mindy Kaling
Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain.
William C. Dement
I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.
Mitchell Baker
I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.
Richard Pryor
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
Will Self
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming.
Rene Descartes
The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.
Richard Linklater