Quotes About Wake

We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if we ever wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home.

Sometimes I am afraid to go to sleep for fear that I will wake up and our democracy will be gone and never return.

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.

Sometimes I'm playing darts in my sleep and I wake myself up. I hate it.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

In the morning when I wake up, I'll exfoliate. Then at night when I shower, I'll also use an exfoliating scrub. My routine is easy, and I just get clean skin.

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.

Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice.

What do I mean when I say 'suspended animation'? It is the process by which animals de-animate, appear dead and then can wake up again without being harmed. OK, so here is the sort of big idea: If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality.

It seems like time slips out of your hands. You wake up, and 2-3 years have passed.

The same way you can manipulate your environment to encourage sleep, you can also do it to wake up.

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

I don't like waking up early.

From his naval training he recalled someone giving him a rule of thumb about estimating the speed of a vessel based on its bow wake. The

James Joyce, in his novel Finnegans Wake, in 1939, punned on the word "Hindoo" (as the British used to spell it), joking that it came from the names of two Irishmen, Hin-nessy and Doo-ley: "This is the hindoo Shimar Shin between the dooley boy and the hinnessy."30 Even Joyce knew that the word was not native to India.

To fully appreciate the Sleep, you had to embrace the Wake and all its drudgery.