Wake Quotes

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

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.

It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is".

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

I'm doing a lot of stand-up, but not like when you're living in New York and you can do three sets a night and it's your life, and you sleep all day and you wake up and you eat with a bunch of other comics and then get ready for the night.

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

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.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.