Waking Quotes

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing.

You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.

Hope is a waking dream.

The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

I work virtually every waking hour.

Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.

There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.

There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.