Wake Up Quotations | Page 2

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.

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

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.

I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.'

The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.

Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see.

I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

To wake up to the sound of my son saying 'Mama, mama!' It's the best sound ever.

I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.

The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.

Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

I love stretching in the morning. It's the first thing I do when I wake up because getting a good back-crack is so extremely satiating. I feel taller when I finally stand.

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

You can wake up every day and make today better than the last.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

I'm terrible when I have to fill up free time. My days, if I'm not working, I wake up and figure out a way to kill time until it's time to go to sleep.

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.

I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.

I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I'm at, because I wake up and have no clue!

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I don't like waking up. I feel like staying in bed usually, but I can't because I've got two kids standing next to my bed, just eager to live another day.

Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'

I wake up and check my Instagram to see what I missed out on last night. Then I check my Twitter. Then I check my Tumblr.

Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.

People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.

When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad.

Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. [...] That's the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you'll actually witness, that you'll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it's Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.

The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.

What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me...

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

If you don't see anything wrong with your game, you need to wake up.

It may just be that a true wake-up call creates a true shift in consciousness. My wake-up call left me no choice. I had to make dramatic changes. Sometimes changes just happen within you, it is the way you approach things. Everything else stays the same.

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.

If you don't wake up every day happy, change something.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

I've seen Keith fall asleep at business meetings about millions of dollars for him-because of heroin, just nod out and then wake up and answer a question.

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

I wanna be drunk when I wake up, on the right side of the wrong bed.

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered.

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

All the days that you wake up you have one job and that's to get better, every single day.

I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I wake up many mornings, and it almost wouldn't surprise me if I woke up from it and it was all a dream.

You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble.

Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I'm terrified, I don't push the feeling away.

For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning...Who ever thought I'd be a children's author -- let alone a best-selling children's author? I feel I should still be driving a truck, or (working as) a longshoreman.

No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads theyll see tomorrow.

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

When I was just about to leave, and when I realised that I wasn't going to wake up in the morning and do this again - that was probably the hardest thing for me. Leaving this family that I'd created on set, with all the cast and the crew was very sad for me.

You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today’s the day. Say it: this is going to be my day.

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.

I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.

Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.

Wake up - time to die.

Sometimes you gotta mess up a little bit to wake up

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I’m OK

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

I've loved Kevin McDonald's movies for a while and it was an amazing experience because he really wanted to do something different. It was by far one of the hardest things I've ever done, to wake up every single day and know that you're going to be freezing cold and wet, every single day, 10 times a day, and there's no getting away from it.

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?