Woke Quotations

I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.

I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.

The weirdest place I ever actually woke up in was a villa on the beach in Mexico. It was burning hot, and there were all these crabs walking around me. But I was feeling good, so I went with the vibe.

I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up with this high voice, and by 1954, I was going to amateur nights and winning.

I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

He's been so successful, arguably the best quarterback ever to play the game. If you were trying to follow his footsteps, it would be incredibly difficult. I'd go crazy if I woke up every day and tried to compare myself to Peyton Manning.

Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.

I'm petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. I woke up once to take a sip of water and almost swallowed a dead one floating in the glass.

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.

My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.

I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it.

The first time my father woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me he was going to die, I think I was eight. He brought out all his papers and explained to me what to do with his body and who to call and how to take care of things. You either learn how to survive, or you fall to pieces. I'm pretty good at surviving.

One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.

Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.

I can't count the number of times I've been sound asleep, woke up, and I was doing my hair.

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

Food redistribution is economically sensible, ecologically pressing, and socially responsible; it is high time food corporations woke up to it and governments started funding the organisations that facilitate it.

I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.

I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'

I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.

One night, I just woke up and I went, 'Killing Jesus.' And I believe, because I'm a Catholic, that comes from the Holy Spirit. My inspiration comes from that. And so I wrote 'Killing Jesus' because I think I was directed to write that.

One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.

I'm a really bad twerker - I still haven't figured out how to do it. I actually hurt my back one day. I woke up the next morning, and my back was completely tweaked out... from twerking.

I'm a late riser by my family's standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up very early to go ice-skating. So I'm really not a morning girl.

I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

When I was just acting on the show, I learned my lines, went to sleep, then woke up and went to work. Now it's sort of become an obsession. I like the success. I'm thrilled with the way things have gone-but my life was simpler 10 years ago.

We got woke up last week. We're coming together nicely.

We're real happy. We talked about how good they are and how sharp we'd have to be, then we gave them a goal 15 seconds into the game. Thank God that kind of woke us up, and then we started playing pretty hard.

We heard glass shattering and also the cats running around, and that's what woke us up.

Like a baby, ... I woke up every two hours and cried.

She woke up with him dead next to her.

She had no clear recollection exactly why she woke up,

She just woke up. We've been working hard on hitting and the young girls are taking control. That's nice to see from freshmen and sophomores.

She never woke up until we put her back in the car. She was a character. Above all, she was just a sweet personality. We're really going to miss her.

She must have just lost it because I can't for the life of me figure out what happened to make her do this. It's like she just woke up and became a different person. What she did, that's not the woman I've known all these years. That's somebody else.

She may have fallen asleep on the bus. When she woke up, she made herself known to someone there.

Move him into the sun Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.

One morning I woke up ... it was 5:30 a.m. and I was just weeping for our city and for the people they haven't found. I don't know that I've been angry. I've been very sad.

One morning, I woke my wife up at 3 a.m. to witness what I saw. They were coming down the road and one of them had one of the neighborhood cats in its mouth. It's like a pack of wild dogs. They're vicious. I've seen them eye-to-eye and it's scary.

One night she went to the restroom, and when I woke up she was walking into the wall. She couldn't find her place on the floor.

More than anything, it was all team, ... But I can tell you we were all playing bad. There wasn't any kind of winning attitude, we weren't doing anything on offense or defense. And they just all woke up and when they came together they started acting more as a group.

Monday morning we woke up and it was listing toward the north about 10 or 15 degrees. I figured, before it fell on the two adjacent barns, we better get it down.

My hip was a lot better when I woke up this morning. I'm relieved that I can walk around without any sharp pain. I putted great and holed some long putts, ... On 17, I tried to hit a hard seven iron instead a cruisy six iron and blocked it right. I played a good bunker shot but missed the par putt from three feet. That's life.

(Nevada) was a tough loss, but it woke us up a little bit. We know we've got to come to play every game and stay focused.

One thing led to another, ... I went to bed that night so spooked I was having nightmares and I woke up at like three or four in the morning, and I started writing the opening scene to 'Scream.'

On the first night (we decided) to stick inshore and it really paid dividends. The next day we woke up to find ourselves ahead of everyone and it stayed that way.

On staying the night at Elton John's: It was adorable. He had all these porcelain kitty-cats everywhere. We woke up and had breakfast together in robes and everything. It was so cute.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

I was going to get up and go to restroom and heard shots and woke up and looked out the window and didn't see anything.

I was a vegetarian for 10 years and a pescetarian for eight. Then I woke up one day when I was 29 and craved red meat. I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

I was staying with some friends in England, and it was New Year's. My husband, Roy, and I were sleeping, and I woke to the sound of our friend's two little boys. They were going around the bedrooms opening the doors and looking in. When they got to our door, one little boy went to open it and the other said, 'No! Don?t open that door. The princess is sleeping in there.' It made my heart leap out of my chest. I think that was the first time I really realized the impact these films had on people.

I was scared. I didn't know what was going on. I just woke up out of a sleep and everybody was running out of the building and the hallways were full of smoke and I didn't know what to do.

I was running super slow. Chris thought I was done. Then one day at the end of February, I woke up and my body felt good. I was just so happy. I was faster than my brother again. I got all my moves back. I told him, 'Brother, I'm back, and now you're done!'

I was the angriest little person imaginable. I woke up with a frown every morning. I barely talked, wore black all the time and had some serious teenage rebellion years.

I would guess we got 20 to 24 inches at least. I'm sure we got a couple of feet. Sunday afternoon I was outside raking, picking up branches. Woke up Monday morning and the sidewalk was bare.

I got off to a slow start last night and I just wanted to put the game behind me. I woke up this morning with a new mindset, came in early and got up some extra shots and got my mind right early.

I don't know where it came from. I don't remember getting elbowed in the chest. I woke up yesterday morning and it was hurting. It's something I've never felt before.

I'd be lying if I said I was not thinking about (the Giants game) when I woke up (Monday) morning. Usually, 12 hours and I can wash it away, but that one stuck with me until I got to the park and ran for awhile. . . . It felt good to go out there in a one-run game and do my job.

I am deeply saddened for the people of Ferguson who woke up to see parts of their community in ruins. No one should have to live like this; no one deserves this. We must do better, and we will.

I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, "What was THAT?!

Car flipped over on him - waist on up - flipped on me - waist on down - broke my back in three places. In a fraction of a second, I woke up in a shock trauma unit. I had tubes coming out of me. I couldn't move. I was paralyzed from the waist down.

But it's something he didn't realize he did. He was focused on the knee, when the injury occurred. He didn't realize it until Friday morning when he woke up and couldn't walk on it.

Basically, I woke up one morning and there was this new form of protest.

Because of the efforts the players needed a little kick in the pants after the match. Hopefully it woke them up a bit.

I felt pretty tired this morning when I woke up. Then when I was warming up in the court, I was feeling heavy and the balls were not going out of the racquet that much like last time ... everything was going too fast for me.

Frankly, I didn't know the full news until I woke up today.

Four years ago I had a stroke, I was declared dead and I'm writing a sequel to my book. It's going to be called "The Fat Lady Sang". I heard the fat lady sing and I saw the white light. I woke up in the hospital, then a month ago I put my foot into cement at the Mann's Chinese Theatre.

If anything, it woke us up. There were just some miscommunications and some bad things happened.

If any one of us woke up in the morning with our leg feeling the way his does every day, we'd be calling 9-1-1. I don't know how he does it. I guess he's just gotten used to it over the years.

For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had.

If we played outdoors, I think my chances would have been very, very small. When I woke up this morning and I saw the temperature, I said 'OK, we're going to play indoors,' and that it was maybe a sign.

He was a lot of fun. He woke up in the morning smiling and he went to bed smiling, and in between, he took care of business. ... He was special.

He was doing a lot of conditioning on the lower half of his body over the winter. He was in real good shape. Then he woke up one morning and found his knee was swollen.

He woke up this morning complaining of lower intestinal problems and was taken by ambulance to the Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs for emergency medical attention.

He woke up this morning and said he was sick. I had him sleep until noon. He was throwing up with a fever. We gave him crackers and water all day.

He woke up. He stepped up and did a tremendous job for us.

He had an MRI and it showed nothing, so I think he'll be fine for Sunday. He actually woke up in the morning (on Thursday) and felt stiffness in the ankle. It might have had to do with practicing on a surface here he wasn't used to.

He had obvious symptoms for almost a year before the diagnosis. Bruce knew he was in trouble when he went into a bar one time, ordered a drink and the guy said, 'I'm not serving you, you're drunk.' That woke him up.

He felt good, he acted like he always does and he actually left the gate wonderful. But when it came time to run he just wasn't there. He must have woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

He finally woke up. He was a late riser for us today.

When he woke up this morning, ... Ken Starr had a choice: to serve the public or himself. He chose the latter.

Today didn't go that well. My arm was bothering me from when I woke up, so I'm hoping it's just that I slept on it wrong. I tried to get loose and see if felt any better, but it didn't, so I just didn't want to take my chances. Playing catch is no fun, but that's secondary right now. That'll come, hopefully, in another couple of weeks.

Today, American Power Conversion Corp., woke us up with a fairly bad report, and I think that's what's been keeping everybody bothered,

He said, 'I kissed her goodnight last night when she was on the computer, and this morning when I woke up she was in the kitchen. She was dead.

He said he woke up and the room was full of smoke.

He saved our lives. He woke up because he couldn't breathe.

His own words saying, 'I just woke up,' shows you he was somewhere else at the moment, disconnected from the entire event.

He was strapped and apparently unresponsive. All of a sudden, he woke up startled and very combative. He fought one of the paramedics to the point he was able to get through the exit door.

He walked over to the roommate's bed, who was still sleeping, and he grabbed her buttocks, which woke her up,

He caught me off guard. I was lazy there. But, yeah, he came out in that first period strong. That takedown woke me up. I had to take it right back to him.

He just went to bed and never woke up. That was a tough day... my brother's birthday, too. I was nine years old myself at the time.

Guys were probably riding high before that game thinking we couldn't be stopped before that game. That was a slap in the face. Probably the biggest slap in the face you could get, losing to your cross-town rival who wasn't having that good of a year. It definitely woke us up.

Kim woke up to hearing some people screaming. We smelled some smoke and we both walked out on the balcony and saw these embers flying by.

I would still be making bets that would hurt me. If I woke up and everything was comfortable, there were no problems, it would probably be too easy.

I think the goal woke them up a little bit. Ironwood has a lot of athletes, but it's just a dump-and-run (offense), and it's not a style we're going to see much. Against that style, it's better just to sit back and let them come at us.

Last night I woke up several times, and even in the dark all I could see were the rings. I became obsessed with them.

I was driving, Bill (Green) was riding shotgun and the starters were dozing in the back for most of the trip. When we woke them just before getting to Marion for a celebratory pep rally, Jay said to Lyndon, 'What time are we going to meet tomorrow to play?' They had just won, and they already were talking about getting back on the court. They never rested.

I was drinking tequila and I woke up in the morning and there was no one there, except the worm and myself were still there.

I thought we came out strong. But I think that put us to sleep and woke them up a bit. After those first two goals, they dominated throughout the second period. I think we matched their game until the third period.