Morning Quotes - Page 20

• Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

  Joyce Cary

  Men, People, Listening

  joyce cary (1944). “the hore's mouth”

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• It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

  Al Pacino

  Fun, Waiting Around, Get Up

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• I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

  Alan Lightman

  Use, Mail, Messages

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• There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Luck, Gold

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.49, Applewood Books

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• When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Writing, Sea, Cities

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• When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.

  Lisa Gardner

  New York, Phones, Agents

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• I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

  Patrick Duffy

  Buddhist, Coffee, Wife

  "Goodbye Texas, hello Woking!" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2006.

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• What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Character, Waiting

  "Young at Heart: Judy Blume". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2004.

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• I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

  Ian Botham

  People, Work Out, Half

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• As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?

  Nicholas Brendon

  Fun, Hair, Play

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• I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

  Justin Cronin

  Writing, World, Six

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

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• I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.

  Criss Angel

  Dad, Kids, Wife

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• When's the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable?

  David Agus

  Moving, Shoes, Feet

  "Living Like an Olympian" by David B. Agus, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

  Clayton Christensen

  Children, Home, School

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• At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

  Peter Carey

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me; they're just good.

  Lee DeWyze

  Bagels, Breakfast, Ultimate

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• In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!

  Angie Dickinson

  Giving, Making Love, Towels

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• My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Brother, Jobs, School

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• That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

  Chris Elliott

  Boys, Three, Cabins

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• At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

  John Hersey

  Girl, Past, Eight

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

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• You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.

  Bill Goldberg

  Night, Cities, Work Out

  "Interview: Goldberg". www.askmen.com.

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• Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Toss, Trash

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• If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

  Marc Andreessen

  Real, People, Waiting

  "Andreessen on Charlie Rose: 'I Am Creating A Fund'". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. February 20, 2009.

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• I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.

  Monica Ali

  Lying, Wish, Saturday

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• I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.

  Steven Adler

  Looks, Wake Up, Used

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