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Quotes About Restless

Chaotic room-service trays; too many cigarettes; lukewarm vodka from duty free. During those restless, shut-up days, I got to know every inch of the room as a prisoner comes to know his cell.
~ Donna Tartt
Will he?" said Lymond. "Will you, Marigold?" Brilliant, youthful face confronted restless one. A little, malicious smile crossed the Master's face. "Oh, no, he won't," said Lymond confidently. "He's going to be a naughty, naughty rogue like you and me.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
NO PUEDO DORMIR
~ Douglas Preston
I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.
~ Agatha Christie
There is no such thing as a really calm sea. Always, always, there is motion.
~ Agatha Christie
Sometimes you get to the point of being so tired it's impossible to sleep.
~ Alan Russell
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
~ Nan Fairbrother
We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the people that broke into restless groups after the ancient Deluge and went wandering over the globe. For we find a socialist tendency in all the barbaric tribes of earth.
~ Edwin Markham
I enjoyed physical education and lunch time. The social aspect of school was great, but as soon as I left school, I wanted to get out there and race. I couldn't sit still for long.
~ Daniel Ricciardo
More insomniacs!' cried the doctor. 'Come in, come in".
~ Rachel Hartman
HOSPITAL SLEEP WAS THE WORST.
~ RaeAnne Thayne
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
~ Ralph Steadman
But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.
~ Raymond Carver
That girl in the backseat of the beater, I wonder if she's bored d restless, stuck in this small town, hating the slow, stoned laughter and the same rock song on the radio. I hope she caught a glimpse of me through the steam. Even if she only saw my tear widen and my legs kick off the ground, she might think I know where I'm going. She might think I've found a way.
~ Rebecca Godfrey
I have a mind that always wants to be busy.
~ Matt Letscher
I think I'm pretty calm. But I am very restless and fidgety.
~ Dinesh Karthik
I have a pretty classic look, so people think I'm pretty calm but I'm the opposite - I can't sit still.
~ Toni Garrn
I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
~ Sam Taylor-Johnson
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
~ Nat Turner
I looked at her again. She lay still now, her face pale against the pillow, her eyes large and dark and empty as rain barrels in a drought. One of her small five-fingered thumbless hands picked at the cover restlessly. There was a vague glimmer of doubt starting to get born in her somewhere. She didn't know about it yet. It's so hard for women - even nice women - to realise that their bodies are not irresistible.
~ Raymond Chandler
I wrote it in one sitting early the next morning. When something assembles itself that fast, it's clear it's been composing itself somewhere in the unknowable back of the mind for a long time. It wanted to be written; it was restless for the racetrack; it galloped along once I sat down at the computer.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Zemurray was not old and was still angry, easy to insult, easy to incense, driven, and restless. Show me a happy man and I will show you a man who is getting nothing accomplished in this world.
~ Rich Cohen
Unfold your days with me and lose your sense of panic and loss. This earth is abundant. It holds joy for you, and contentment. Bring me your restless heart. Allow me to gentle your soul.
~ Julia Cameron
Maybe they just didn't have anywhere they needed to go.
~ Julianna Baggott