Morning Quotes - Page 31

• Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

  Victoria Moran

  Real, Thinking, Magic

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• I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

  Oscar Nunez

  Wake Up, Should, Popsicles

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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

  Ideas, Mind, Golden

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• Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Running, Giving, Mind

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

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• I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

  Douglas Preston

  Sunday, Guy, Clerks

  "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

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• For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.

  Ridley Pearson

  Home, Writing, Novelists

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• Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

  Janet Frame

  Mean, Hands, Order

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.

  Regis Philbin

  Crazy, Mean, Night

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• What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Espresso, Breakfast, Cappuccino

  "Q&A: Wolfgang Puck, Now of Top Chef". Interview with Eric Vilas-Boas, www.esquire.com. November 29, 2012.

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

  Ray Stevenson

  Thinking, Guy, Wake Up

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

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• I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

  Beanie Sigel

  Six, Wake Up, Use

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• You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

  Barry Manilow

  Stupid, Next, Headlines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Earth

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Coffee, Buddhism, People

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• A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

  R. L. Stine

  Real, Sound, Garbage

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

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• In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

  Shepard Smith

  New York, Bagels

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• The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.

  David Walliams

  Kitchen, Use, Pieces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know the stories of a woman saying to Churchill, 'Sir, you're drunk,' and he said to her, 'And you're ugly, but in the morning I'll be sober.' I was really excited to do that scene, but I did get slapped.

  Thomas Howes

  Drunk, Stories, Ugly

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• I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Sleep, Night, Naps

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• A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

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• Just another cold, misty morning inviting, "want to go again?"

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Fishing, Want

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in the morning I destroyed all the wicked of the earth, that I might cut off all evil-doers from the city of the Lord' (Ps. 101:8) - that is, the passions of the body and the soul's godless thoughts.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Passion, Cutting

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• My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.'

  Jayma Mays

  Mom, Choices, Cartoon

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

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• When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

  Julie Mehretu

  Mom, Children, Sleep

  "Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.

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• I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

  William Mapother

  Symphony, Opera, Classical Music

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