I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. – Susan Sontag
A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor. – Taylor Kitsch
I’m essentially working from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. It’s my biggest hobby but also my favorite career that I could ever have. Every single platform is important. – Tyler Oakley
I don’t like to talk about that McCanles affair. It gives me a queer shiver whenever I think of it, and sometimes I dream about it and wake up in a cold sweat. – Wild Bill Hickok
Drinking lemon water as soon as you wake up spikes your energy levels physically and mentally. Lemon water gives you steady, natural energy that lasts the length of the day by improving nutrient absorption in your stomach. – Travis Bradberry
We’ve had drive-by shootings. I’ve been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we’ll still wake up in glory. – Troy Perry
You always say ‘I’ll quit when I start to slide’, and then one morning you wake up and realize you’ve done slid. – Sugar Ray Robinson
Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what’s roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator. – Will Self
It’s interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they’re a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, ‘Well, why do you ask?’ – Saul Perlmutter
Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed. – Zoe Saldana
I’m living in Beverly Hills. I’m very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I’m blessed. – Victoria Beckham
The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies. – Stephen Daldry
To wake up in the morning and just know what I’m going to wear, it helps me get out of the house faster. – Theophilus London
Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, ‘OK, it’s the first of recording this album.’ I like to avoid that. – Yann Tiersen
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, ‘Hey, come back over here, reconnect.’ The only way that you’ll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort. – Tara Brach
For me, being part of the WTA tour is a privilege. Every day I wake up, it’s a privilege to be able to go outside and do what I love. It’s a privilege to be able to make my own hours, even though they’re long, but I make them. – Venus Williams
I’m not afraid to eat breakfast at three in the morning. As a kid, I used to go to bed at 8 P.M., wake up at 1 A.M. when my grandma would cook me breakfast, and then I’d pass out again. – Taylor Hicks
Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can’t think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. – Tom Waits
I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me. – Wole Soyinka