Morning Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

  Anthony Minghella

  Growing Up, Kids, Night

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• The searing light of morning
  Asks unwelcome questions,
  Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.

  Scott Hastie

  Light, Fragile, Asks

  Scott Hastie, “Out There”

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• When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn.

  Jean-Louis Barrault

  Sleep, Desire, Wake Up

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• We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Art, Pain, Play

  "How Might Video Games Be Good for Us?" by Jane McGonigal, www.bigquestionsonline.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

  Meg Rosoff

  Horse, Fetch, Fields

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• The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

  Jacques Lacan

  Baltimore, Early Morning, Unconscious

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• I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.

  L'Wren Scott

  Couple, Powerful, Night

  "L’Wren’s Got a Brand-New Bag". www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2011.

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• I don’t really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

  L'Wren Scott

  Running, Challenges, Waking

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• You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.

  Ami Ayalon

  Reality, Israel, Wake Up

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• You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.

  Alanna Ubach

  Teacher, Want, Persons

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• It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Friday morning and go home Sunday night. We're all integral to our partnerships, commercially, motorsports. We're as much champions in the boardroom as we are on the racetrack.

  Charlie Kimball

  Friday, Home, Sunday

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• What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Father, Future

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!

  Brian Tracy

  Knowing, Long, Frogs

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light.

  Jean-Claude Ellena

  Beautiful, Art, Flower

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• On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Population, Wake Up, Matter

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• Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Husband, Lakes, Firsts

  Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc

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• You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.

  Charles Gwathmey

  Wake Up, Able

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• I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Coffee, Promise, Get Up

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• I go jogging for 25 minutes every morning, even if I'm away from home.

  Pierre Dukan

  Home, Jogging, Minutes

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• I'm not really a morning person.

  Steve Burton

  Morning Person, Persons

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• I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

  Stephen Daldry

  Wake Up, Telephones, Costumes

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• Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

  Leigh Mitchell Hodges

  Success, Perseverance, Swimming

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