Wake Up And Go Quotes

“It all comes down to that one person you always think about before you fall asleep at night. And text "Good Morning" as soon as you wake up.”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list!”

— Denis Leary

“If she fails to wake, I will kill him. I will not kill him quickly.”

— Michelle Sagara

“Gilly had decided that this was a dream. The Witches' Carnival didn't exist in the real world. And the Gilly who existed in the real world was not brave or cunning enough to have done everything that she'd done in the past day. The real Gilly was not beautiful enough to be lying in bed beside a woman like Maggie. Gilly had decided this was a dream, and also that she'd let that real Gilly, deep asleep somewhere in the outskirts of Birmingham, wither away and never wake up.
Already, Gilly could see herself arcing across the earth bright as a comet, moving too fast for the Ashleys and Tracyes, the thousand tiny insults and humiliations of the waking world, to ever catch.”

— Kristopher Reisz

“I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I'm being drowned by some kind of black wave.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud.
He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. He savors every sound he elicits from her.
The entire room trembles as they come together.
And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks.”

— Erin Morgenstern

“I'll have to wake up and realize that some people can stay in your heart, but not in your life.”

— Kathryn Perez

“Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.”

— Steven Erikson

“We wake up one day surprised to find ourselves in a less desirable situation that we don't remember consenting to, but we stay in it because for some reason we feel obligated. As time passes, we convince, fool, and talk ourselves into believing things are normal. It's not until we see the dream we lost that we realize what a nightmare we're in.”

— Alison G. Bailey

“I know we can make it through anything, Rowen. The past couple of months have proven that to me. I know we could make it if we were far away from each other, I trust that. I have faith in that. The thing is ... I don't want to do it. I want to be near you. Every day. Every night. Why should I settle for you from far away when I can have you near me every morning when I wake up?”

— Nicole Williams

“I still have those childish moments when I wish with all my heart that I could wake up and find it's all been a dream. I really have thought that. I have felt-stronger than grief, stronger than anger, stronger than despair-the profound desire to return to the netherworld of the safer past. There are still flashes of unexpected sadness, the pauses that last longer than they used to. The desire for retribution, the fear of retribution. Like a death in the family, like a personal tragedy, an event like this lays bare the complexity of our worlds, internal and external.”

— David Levithan

“To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.”

— Sidney Poitier

“People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.”

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.”

— Stephen Daldry

“Camus-boy, you're always going to be the same you, just older. It's not like there's a moment when you wake up and go, Shit, I'm grown-up, I don't feel like myself anymore.'
I don't tell him, but this is the scariest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life. Being grown-up should feel like a big transition. It can't be something that, despite my best efforts, I've been drifting closer and closer to every summer. It needs to be a shock. I need to know at what point to stop holding on. And that moment will suck, and probably every moment after that will suck, but at least I'll know that everything that came before really was valid. I really was young and innocent. I wasn't fooling myself.”

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.”

— Chinua Achebe

“A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.”

— Chanel Iman

“Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.”

— Chanel Iman

“I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake up and go to a job.”

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.”

— Mark Romanek

“There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.”

— Dikembe Mutombo

“I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't”

— Stephen Chbosky

“If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing ... then you are a writer.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.”

— Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez

“Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.”

— Jason Bateman

“For guys, I don't think you're ever ready ... I don't think you wake up and go, 'You know, today's the day I'm going to get married. By God, I'm ready. My house is in order, and it is time.'”

— Rob Lowe

“I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.”

— Karl Rove

“I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.”

— Faith Hill

“Morning is the time to hide. They wake up, hale and hearty, their tongues hanging out for order, beauty and justice, baying for their due. Yes, from eight or nine till noon is the dangerous time. But towards noon things quiet down, the most implacable are sated, they go home, it might have been better but they've done a good job, there have been a few survivors but they'll give no more trouble, each man counts his rats.”

— Samuel Beckett

“Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.”

— Zaha Hadid

“That was how troubles arrived, mourners rushing the bar at a wake. Though they came in funereal flocks, they could be dismissed only one at a time, and that was how she would have to proceed.”

— Michael Chabon

“My favorite thing is to be naked, which is why I always live in remote areas. My ideal is to wake in the morning and run around the meadows naked. I think it's a good idea to live in harmony with nature.”

— Daryl Hannah

“Some of dese mornin's and it won't be long, you gointuh wake up callin' me and Ah'll be gone.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson”

— Dustin Poirier

“Some of us wake up. Others roll over.”

— Mark Twight

“Sometimes, you don't realize what you have until you wake up and go 'Damn.'”

— August Alsina

“I believe every day when I wake up and go to bed and during my dreaming time there's some moment of truth that's in front of me that will always be in front of me until the end of days.”

— Harvey Keitel

“Yeah, I'll pay your cab fare home, you can even use my best cologne, just don't be here in the morning when I wake up.”

— Rod Stewart

“I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don't let anyone pinch me, because I don't want to wake up.”

— Mark Cuban

“You never quite know what the change is until, one day, you wake up and go, "Wow, I'm reacting to things differently and I feel differently."”

— Sandra Bullock

“Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.”

— Jack White

“I love playing music as much as if not more so than I did when I was 19; that compared to most of my peers is pretty surprising. I wake up every day and get really excited about doing stuff that I have been doing for the last 30 years. I just love it.”

— Slash

“Do you check it when you travel, do you check it when you're just at home? They'd be able to tell something called your 'pattern of life.' When are you doing these kind of activities? When do you wake up? When do you go to sleep? What other phones are around you when you wake up and go to sleep? Are you with someone who's not your wife?”

— Edward Snowden

“Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.”

— Spider Robinson

“Some people know they are dreaming when they are asleep. You must also know you are dreaming when you wake-up. When you know you are dreaming when you wake up, then you are really waking up”

— Mooji

“Prayer is better than to sleep. Wake up. Wake up & pray. This is the way you free yourself.”

— Tariq Ramadan

“In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.”

— Bill W.

“People - Hollywood doesn't talk about how bad cigarette smells when it smells like they wake up in bed with somebody who has been smoking the night before.”

— Chris Matthews

“If people wake up and go, "Oh, where's the coffee," or "Oh, another day," that does not set a good tone for the day.”

— Louise Hay

“When I try to brush the road dust off of me and untangle all the wires in my head, I'm usually surrounded by music on a boat. But that's not how I wake up every day.”

— Kenny Chesney