I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
. . . and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn’t want you to stop. I didn’t mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn’t mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.
I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.
I woke to the sound of rain.
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
You can usually tell by the look on someone's face if they woke up counting their problems or their blessings.
But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
"I'm at your house?" Kody asked. "You don't have to sound so offended. I do have people clean it, you know?""Sorry. " She sighed wearily. "You have no idea how confusing it is to wake up in a strange place with no idea how you got there. "Caleb laughed. "Sure I do. Happens to me frequently. "She rolled her eyes at his frightening lifestyle. "Yes, but I woke up in this bed alone. "
Every show I've done, I've just wanted to understand something of this weird life that I woke up in. I've never woken up in anyone else's life, so I've got to understand this one. The only skill I was given is this painting.
Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.
Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.
Gideon woke up ready to conquer the world, and he liked to start that domination with me. How lucky was I?
If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.
The story he [Todd Willingham] told me was this: He woke up to a fire. He ran out of the house and couldn't run back in to save his children, and that was enough to get me interested. . . . There's a writer in me that's like,. . . this is a great story. . . . I have a good friend, who was my neighbor at the time, and I told her about it. . . . She had been a reporter, and she was like, "Let's go investigate it. "
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
When I was a kid, you ate, and you drank, and you passed out and nobody woke you up and said, 'Let's go shopping.
911 woke us up, a nuclear 911 could shut us down.