Wakes Quotes

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss

Life, End, Laugh

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David Thoreau

Family, Men, Morning

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.
Mitt Romney

Morning, America, Proud

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
Anne Baxter

Life, Best, Failure

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
Emile M. Cioran

Evil, Prophet, Sleeps

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
Carlos Santana

Music, Hero, Guitar

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.
Lewis Black

Work, Politics, Big

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher

Life, After, Wish

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
Jean Ingelow

Old, Sorrow, Break

I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.
Pitbull

Life, Someone, Energy

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.
Rob Sheffield

Morning, Greatest, Song

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
John Bunyan

God, Heart, Sleep

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.
Mary Schmich

Style, Dress, Costume

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.
Michel Gondry

Revenge, Through, Means

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
Edward Hoagland

Force, Events, Talents

I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby,' I'm rocking a bikini!
Kelly Osbourne

Morning, Girl, Thought

The dog can only become what's in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you.
Cesar Millan

Energy, Become, Dog

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.
John Green

Great, Character, Person

A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.
Andrew O'Hagan

Making, Conscience, Theatre

I find that protein wakes up my brain and gets me ready for the rest of my day.
Marisa Tomei

Brain, Find, Rest

I don't think anyone wakes up and says, 'I want my life to suck today.'
Robert Herjavec

Life, Today, Anyone

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
Zhang Ziyi

Mother, Character, End

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
Sue Monk Kidd

Pain, Find, Others

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.
Ray Stevenson

Morning, Bad, Thinking

I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.
Jackson Rathbone

Good, Girl, Nothing

I experienced a lot, and achieved nearly everything I wanted. I can enjoy that today. Go to bed at nine in the evening, because my child wakes up around seven, without having the feeling that I missed or are missing something.
Thomas Kretschmann

Today, Feeling, Evening

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
Pat Nixon

Sleep, Night, Nobody

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