Quotes About Yawning

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

By midnight Theresa was yawning steadily, and Garrett suggested that she get some sleep. But I came down here to see you, she protested drowsily. But if you don't get your sleep, I'll look blurry.

Or if, like her, they immersed themselves in trivialities in a frantic effort to avoid a yawning inner emptiness that sometimes threatened to swallow them whole.

The whores would be just coming out of their houses making ready for the night, yawning lazily after their sleep and settling the hairpins in their clusters of hair. He would pass by them calmly waiting for a sudden movement of his own will or a sudden call to his sinloving soul from their soft perfumed flesh.

The faintly lit hatchway lay in the dark of the yard like a grave yawning at judgement day in some old apocalyptic painting.

Leela: Why are we listening to them? It is a waste of time. The Doctor; It is difficult to know what will be a waste of time until after the time has been wasted, by which time it is too late. So predicting what will be a waste of time is something of a waste of time. Unless it gives you pleasure of course when it probably doesn't count as a waste of time. Leela (yawning): I am sorry I did not hear what you said, Doctor. The Doctor (smiling): That was a waste of time then.

From time to time I yawn so widely that tears roll down my cheek.

Blue sat up, yawning, and looked over Cricket's shoulder. "Maybe it thinks it's time to hatch because it's not in the Nest anymore." "Oh my stars," Cricket said. "Is that a thing? A real thing? Can it really tell it's not in the Nest?

Yawning, he tossed his clothes over a chair, peeled back those luxurious spreads, and, naked as the day he was born, promptly fell asleep in the Pirate Queen's bed.

Please, your story, or I shall offend the dignitaries of my kingdom by yawning at holy things.

Francis, however, was tired and bored. He kept yawning and wanted to retire to his chamber before the end of the meal.

After all," I said to myself, "possibly the pleasure that its author has found in writing it is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; it may be only an accessory, one that is often to be found superadded to that value, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written yawning.

Copacii par zane durdulii in camasi albe de noapte, care se intind somnoroase si casca la luna...

The hospital, like a beast with a thousand hearts, was stretching and yawning, settling into the night.