Awake Quotes - Page 37

• What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.

  Tennessee Williams

  Mean, Writing, Attention

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

  Helen Keller

  Summer, Sweet, Memories

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• Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably be found in the thoughts we have when awake, rather than in our dreams.

  Rene Descartes

  Dream, Perfect, Body

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• Drama is what you do when you have a dream while you're awake.

  Ron Smothermon

  Dream, Drama, Definitions

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• Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

  Peter Gabriel

  Blow, Poetry, Noses

  Song: Steam, Album: Us, 1992

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• I am awake a lot of nights.

  Roger Goodell

  Night

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• I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.

  Amanda Hocking

  Dog, Book, Mind

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• Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

  Bob Seger

  Lying, Echoes, Rock And Roll

  Bob Seger, The Silver Bullet Band (2012). “Bob Seger - Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets (Songbook)”, p.45, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.

  Miranda Kerr

  Time Zones, Challenges, Pilots

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• I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.

  Isabel Lucas

  Mind, Mobile

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

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• Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

  Jo Nesbo

  Morning, Ideas, Mind

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• Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

  Lorene Scafaria

  War, Reality, Worry

  "Filmmaker on 'Seeking a Friend's' origins". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2012.

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• I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.

  Mona Simpson

  Morning, Writing, Night

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• We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

  Maj Sjowall

  Lying, Night, Pay

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Morning, Writing

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• Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Autumn, Lakes

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• We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Apathy, Needs

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• In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.

  Steve Vai

  Home, School, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air

  Jen Lancaster

  Sleep, Air, Mind

  Jen Lancaster (2010). “My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is t he New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto”, p.34, Penguin

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• When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.

  Celia Thaxter

  Morning, Children, Flower

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• O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold
  Are but a cheat contrived by men of old
  Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust
  And died in baseness-and their law is dust.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Men, Dust, Law

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• To be on Coast to Coast, you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.

  George Noory

  Night, Return, Middle

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• And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

  Libba Bray

  Pain, Believe, Ignorance

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• The rules for reading yourself to sleep are easier to follow than are the rules for staying awake while reading. Get into bed in a comfortable position, make sure the light is inadequate enough to cause slight eyestrain, choose a book that is either terribly difficult or terribly boring-in any event, one that you do not really care whether you read or not-and you will be asleep in a few minutes. Those who are experts in relaxing with a book do not have to wait for nightfall. A comfortable chair in the library will do any time

  Mortimer Adler

  Book, Reading, Sleep

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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