Waking famous quotes
05-15-2025
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It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
-- Aimee Mann -
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
-- Alan Watts -
Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.
-- Alex Garland -
It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.
-- Allison Williams -
A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.
-- Anna Godbersen -
I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.
-- Avril Lavigne -
I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.
-- Bertrand Russell -
It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.
-- Brian Austin Green -
The best thing about waking up early is seeing the sun rise.
-- Bridgit Mendler -
The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
-- Brit Marling -
Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
-- Brit Marling -
Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.
-- Caprice Bourret -
Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.
-- Caroline Corr -
After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
-- Casey Affleck -
I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.
-- Charles Saatchi -
The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over.
-- Dawn Ostroff -
Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do
-- Daymond John -
Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.
-- Dennis Lehane -
Still, waking up this early was just wrong. “Why can’t people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?†I whined.
-- Diana Rowland -
Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
-- Edmund Spenser -
A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
-- Edna Ferber -
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.
-- Elise M. Boulding -
I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.
-- Elizabeth Scott -
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
-- Elyn Saks -
The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours
-- Eric Berne -
sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
All my life I've been pleasin' everyone but me, waking up in someone else's dream.
-- Faith Hill -
I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
Hell’s waking up every ***** day and not even knowing why you’re here.
-- Frank Miller -
The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
-- Gail Porter -
If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.
-- George D. Prentice -
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
-- Gregory Maguire -
We are in a waking dream... We see worlds where others scheme...
-- Hamza Yusuf -
Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.
-- Ian Fleming -
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
-- Idries Shah -
Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.
-- Idris Elba -
No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.
-- Jack Smith -
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
-- Jackie Gleason -
When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.
-- Jena Malone -
We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.
-- John Welwood -
Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
-- Joseph Joubert -
All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.
-- Kate Bush -
There's one thing that's really great about waking up early, and it's not jogging or greeting the day - it's just that that's when they make doughnuts.
-- Kathy Griffin -
I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.
-- Lenny Bruce -
Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.
-- Leonard Jacobson -
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
-- Margaret Fuller -
Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.
-- Margaret Heffernan -
In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.
-- Mark Nepo -
There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment
-- Marva Collins -
I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)
-- Mary E. Pearson -
The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.
-- Matthew Continetti -
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day.
-- Mike Carey -
You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.
-- Moby -
Some people know they are dreaming when they are asleep. You must also know you are dreaming when you wake-up. When you know you are dreaming when you wake up, then you are really waking up
-- Mooji -
Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.
-- Nathan Englander -
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
-- Nikolai Gogol -
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.
-- Novalis -
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
-- Oliver Sacks -
The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.
-- Orison Swett Marden -
The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your cup!
-- Paul Stanley -
Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life
-- Pavel Florensky -
I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things.
-- Peter York -
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 -
To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.
-- Robert Bridges -
In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.
-- Robin Meyers -
The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
-- Robin Wasserman -
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.
-- Sakyong Mipham -
the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!
-- Sarah Orne Jewett -
In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy to be scared by dreams.
-- Scott Sigler -
Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.
-- Shannon Hale -
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.
-- Sigmund Freud -
Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up.
-- Srikumar Rao -
Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving otherwise is dreaming true. Meaning what you dream about actually happens.
-- Stephen LaBerge -
I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
-- Suzanne Collins -
The noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines.
-- Theodor Adorno -
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or rage or irony, as the moment or situation might dictate, I have pondered and even demanded of cosmic energy to know Why.
-- Theodore Dreiser -
Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
-- Thomas Nagel -
The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form that exists both individually and intersubjectively. It was originally a biological evolutionary process, and in our species it has become a collective cultural process as well. Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
-- Thomas Nagel -
I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.
-- Tony Kushner -
A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.
-- Veronica Rossi -
By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
-- Virginia Woolf -
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
-- W. H. Auden -
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
-- Will Self -
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.
-- William Nicholson -
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
-- Wislawa Szymborska -
If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
-- Yasmin Mogahed -
For me, success to me is waking up and doing what you're doing every day, whatever that looks like to me.
-- Chuck Harmony -
There's this point between conscious and subconscious when you realize you were asleep and resting, and you were having all kinds of anxiety dreams about the film and all the things that can go wrong. You get in this hypnagogic state, where you're waking up and realizing, "Oh, it was just a dream."
-- David Slade -
The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.
-- Dumitru Tepeneag -
Having a kid made me realize, "I have to take care of this kid, but I can't have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I've got to work."
-- A.C. Newman -
Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.
-- Bernie Taupin -
Waking up is seeing yourself just as you are, not as you would like to be nor as you are afraid you might be.
-- Paul Lowe -
One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and financial crisis in decades - possibly since the Great Depression - and the one group that spends most of its waking hours analyzing the economy basically missed it.
-- Robert J. Samuelson -
Collect the power. Because our fear has power. And our fear is paralyzing, and our fear sets us off course. So it's about gathering and collecting that power, waking it up. And dedicating your life to honoring it.
-- Rod Stryker -
Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.
-- Kelly Reichardt
