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  • Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

  • Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.

    Dream   Moving   Home  
    "The Gospel According to Disney : Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust". Book by Mark I. Pinsky, 2004.
  • Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.

    Fall   Mean   Thinking  
    David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.40, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence

    Running   Dream   Heart  
    Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.93, Harvard University Press
  • She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

  • As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening.

  • Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

    Sad   Time   Loneliness  
    Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.363, Simon and Schuster
  • Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.

    Sleep   Thinking   Brain  
  • For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

    Death   Heart   Sleep  
  • Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

    Sleep   People   Want  
    Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1789, Delphi Classics
  • Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

    Buddhist   Horse   Sleep  
  • A sleepy smile pulled at my lips as I rolled onto my stomach, stretching my legs out and pointing my toes. The sheets slipped over my bare skin and ended up somewhere at the foot of my bed. There was either a perverted ghost in my bedroom or Cam was wide awake.

    Feet   Skins   Lips  
  • Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

    Wisdom   Learning   Sleep  
    Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
  • Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of chivalry in the modern world, ever-ready to help others.

    Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.24, Penguin
  • Make your initial contact short and sweet. Five sentences or less, or under 150 words. If someone instant messages you while you're online, go ahead and IM them back if you want. Otherwise, wait twenty-two to twenty-three hours between email contacts for the first few messages. Don't send messages while most people are sleeping, even if you're wide-awake. Shoot for business hours or just after dinnertime.

    Sweet   Sleep   Two  
  • Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.

    Children   Eye   Justice  
  • To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under compulsion to set in, night for night, at the same point, knowing from grim experience, that the demons awaiting you have each to be grappled with in turn, no single one of them left unthrown, before you can win through to the peace that is utter exhaustion.

    Sleep   Winning   Night  
    Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1930). “The fortunes of Richard Mahony: comprising Australia Felix, The way home, Ultima Thule”
  • Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

    Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media
  • The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.

    Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.107, Routledge
  • Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.

    Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

    Men   Thinking   Mirrors  
    Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.212, Grove Press
  • When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

  • I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?

    Dream   Real   Night  
  • You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

    Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage
  • That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian D. Larson)

    Christian   Destiny   Men  
    Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.86, Simon and Schuster
  • I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn.

    Real   Lying   Sadness  
    Song: Torn, Album: Left of the Middle
  • Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.430, Ballantine Books
  • Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.

    Sleep   Up Early   Get Up  
  • A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

    Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
  • ...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

    People   Half   Littles  
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”
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