Awake Quotations

If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

The secret is to be awake.To be awake is everything.

I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.

I rise near dawn, make a strong cup of coffee, wander to my desk and come fully awake by reading something written the day before.

That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.

I'm awake as soon as the sun crests the eastern hills. I guess I'm motivated because I love just about everything about my life - the writing, the many critters, the art, and all the rest.

I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.

I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.

One name always stands out when it comes to actors taking on the monsters of our nightmares - Robert Englund. In the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series, Englund kept us awake as night with a striped shirt and his special glove.

I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.

For 'The Big Wander,' I probably had ten different outlines before I made myself start writing. I would sleep on each one, thinking it was wonderful, but I would always awake perceiving some flaw.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.

There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.

To be on 'Coast to Coast,' you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

Don't go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don't shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.

I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert.

As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.

I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.

I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.

I'm a shockingly bad sleeper. In bed very late. Awake at the crack of dawn.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

My eyes are open & my heart beats but I cannot be awake for this is surely a nightmare

My husband and I did what we could after Katrina. We donated to the Red Cross and the Humane Society. But I kept thinking about the birds. It kept me awake at night, wondering how I could help them.

Some are awake and not aware of their surroundings; others are comatose. They need hands-on care; they can't care for themselves. Many have been with us for years.

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.

Let's face it, I could have killed myself, and my family, my mother who means so much to me, would have spent the rest of her life mourning me. Or worse yet, I could have killed some innocent people and their families would have then suffered a great loss. Lay awake at night and think about that for a while. If that doesn't scare you, then something's wrong with you.

When you develop your power of discrimination and become fully awake to the indwelling divinity, you will not suffer sorrow nor be subjected to fear.

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

Sessions began at 7:50 a.m., and (Alice) beat me there ... always awake and happy.

The only thing that's been disrupted are sleep patterns around here. We've all been working 16 or 18 hours a day, and either you don't get enough sleep when you try, or you stay awake wondering what needs to be done next.

But staying awake is not real exciting for people to watch.

Basically we have a tiny little gland in the middle of our brains that controls when we sleep and when we are awake as well as many other things. And many of us are programmed, as it were, to either be night owls (want to go to sleep late) or larks, where we want to go to bed early.

I always, always hated it, ... but I was always the only kid on the team who could do it. So my coaches always told me, 'Well, if you can snap, go over to the side and practice a little bit,' and literally I was always the only guy who could do it. So I did it in pee wee, midget, junior high school, high school, college. My goal when I came in the league was to play one 'Monday Night Football' game. Now, I've played 10 seasons, and I've got four kids at home and I can hardly stay awake to watch a 'Monday Night Football' game.

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, / Smiles awake you when you rise. / Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, / And I will sing a lullaby.

He's got everyone's attention. He gets you wide awake at the beginning of each practice and you've got to be sharp, got to be on your toes. He wants you to listen, he wants you to start each drill properly and make sure you know what you're doing. If you don't, get out of the way. Same thing with our meetings. It's, 'Stop what you're doing and pay attention.' He only has to say it a few times and everyone catches on.

People have definitely been taking advantage of it, ... If they're up and awake at that hour, they'll come.

I think everyone would be more worried if we played at 10 a.m.. College guys are a lot more awake at 10 p.m. I think the key is to not make a big deal of it. You stay in the same routine (as you would for a normal 7 p.m. game), you just push everything back three hours.

John was very human and sometimes in the middle of the night he would say, 'Are you awake ?' and I would say, 'Yes, yes' and he said, 'You know, they always cover Paul's songs and never mine and I don't know why'. I said, 'You're a good songwriter, it's not June with Spoon that you write. You're a good singer and most musicians are probably a little bit nervous about covering your songs'.

I talked to her and she was awake and seems to be fine. She's kind of fuzzy, but is going to be OK.

we no longer have to get up at 4 a.m. We can sleep in until 6 a.m. The only problem is that we're all awake most of the night due to the high heat, humidity and being eaten alive by the steroid-enhanced flying insects around here.

I wasn't happy with our defense. We were asleep (in the first half), then we were awake (in the third quarter), then we fell asleep again.

We came out really slow. I don't know what was wrong with us, but we weren't awake and ready to go.

You know what's spooky about this location is that if you look down the hill, you can see a house, a road with traffic. And if you were here and you were injured in such a way that you couldn't move, you're actually watching people go by and you can't call out to them to come help you because they're too far away. That whole thought is just very eerie and spooky to me, that if, in fact, you were awake but immobile that would be how your life would end.

You know your life is different when the first call you get this morning is from President Bush at 6 o'clock and (my wife) Sally asked me if I was awake and wanted to take it. I said, 'I think so.

I was awake a long time. I just laid there, wondering if someone was going to find me ... praying that I would live ... but not wanting to live. It was probably the craziest 13 hours ... just laying there not being able to move.

I was awake doing some work when I heard what sounded like a crack from outside at 5.50 am,

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

You are like the rocks on the seashore that unflinchingly face the beating of the waves. The rock does not move; the wave will not stop. This predicament should end. Awake and avail yourselves of this unique chance.

We had all just participated in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life at the high school, when we stay awake for about 24 hours straight. We were a little sleepy.

There is a report sent to delegations, ... There was no report on the table. There's nothing exceptional or extraordinary about it. It's not like ministers of foreign affairs lie awake at night thinking about a report on East Jerusalem. They get lots of reports.

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.

When I awake dramatically I start off my day by reciting aloud a fan letter.

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.

It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.

We weren't awake or something. It was just a poor effort. We weren't mentally ready and it showed up physically.

He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

A dream project is anything I do when I'm awake.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

Believe me, those 20-some minutes make a difference. It's the difference between you falling asleep in the fourth quarter or being awake for the end of the game.

What keeps me awake at night? Just about everything! I worry that I am not there for my family enough. So what keeps me awake at night is general guilt!

When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul - the experience of love. Being present is the art of the soul.

Everything here but the soul of man is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul?

I've been here a few times and it's fun to be here and I've learned the few times I haven't won the championship to enjoy the moment. I've tried to enjoy getting to the final four. I tried to enjoy that for the two hours I was awake today without thinking about the game and I'm going to try and do the same thing.

I've been awake all night waiting on it. That's obviously our biggest concern.

We need to shrink that equipment. That's what drives us nuts and keeps us awake at night.

isn't awake enough to know what's going on.

The sleeping giant is awake -- wide awake -- and we're paying close attention.

These days, awareness and three dollars will get you a cappuccino no more. As vital as awareness is to the process of improving your life, to suddenly be awake and aware means nothing if you simply leave it at that. Awareness only matters if it impacts my actions.

These women work incredibly hard. They take drugs for the same reason a truck driver takes drugs. To stay awake and do their job. Like steroids, these are performance-enhancing drugs.

These conflicting views suggest that compensation committee members are awake to the pay versus performance issue and their responsibility to exercise independent oversight.