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Quotes About Wakeup

Volumes could be written on the problem of [drug] addiction. Millions of barbiturates are swallowed every night to help the nation sleep. Millions of tranquilizers keep us calm during the day. Millions of pep pills wake us up in the morning. The Bible warns that these flights from reality bring no lasting satisfaction.
~ Billy Graham
Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.
~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sun, seeping through the blinds, filled my bedroom with a sulfurous light. I didn't know how long I had slept, but I felt one big twitch of exhaustion.
~ Sylvia Plath
I would embrace my regret—and my ability to work at forgiveness—as evidence of my humanity. I would wake up each morning and count my blessings.
~ Julianne MacLean
In the morning, my alarm clock is a chorus of lemurs yelling!
~ Bindi Irwin
Catherine long ago decided that grapefruit is the only proper breakfast juice. It is wake-up juice. Orange juice is acceptable as an alternative but really it's for the slack, for people who don't really want to wake up. As for those who like apple or cranberry juice in the morning, you just know they are weak. Masturbators and adulterers.
~ Stephen May
Getting slapped in the face with a plastic arm to wake up is not as painful as it might look - probably more humiliating than painful really.
~ Simone Giertz
I'm signed to a U.S. label, and I didn't enjoy the 3 A.M. phone calls. I'm not a great sleeper, so I didn't enjoy being woken up.
~ Estelle
My problem is, if any place I'm sleeping catches on fire, I've got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.
~ Brian Dennehy
people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.
~ Milan Kundera
In this country people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure. Believe me, it is the mornings that determine a man's character.
~ Milan Kundera
Trust me: I do hit the snooze button about 4 times.
~ Tamron Hall
I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wakeup letter.
~ Steven Wright
Every morning I rise when it is pitch black outside (and you know it's not natural to be up if the sun couldn't even be bothered to get up)
~ Cecelia Ahern
She smiled at him, the way she always did, even when he woke up at oh-what-the-fuck-hundred.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
My son is always up early.
~ Fallon Sherrock
My mood depends heavily on what happens to me right after I get up.
~ Marie Brennan
I'm not too much of a morning person.
~ Nyjah Huston
I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I love coffee because it's the ritual of my morning. I'm very much a morning person.
~ Ryan Hurd
I'm horrible in the mornings. I'm grumpy.
~ Hugh Grant
I set my alarm for 7:30 A.M., but it's really hard for me to wake up in the mornings.
~ Hannah Brown
Reveille came in the form of an electric buzzer, the kind associated with a cheap alarm clock. That was good news. No bugle--he hated bugles in the morning.
~ Tom Clancy
They rose at five, which is Satan's hour, as everyone knows,
~ Kristan Higgins