This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

- Charles Olson

To be awake is everything.

- Gustave Meyrink

The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.

- Gustave Meyrink

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

- George Saunders

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

- Emmanuelle Beart

I can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: 'Sorry, did I wake you?' and I'm like: 'No, I'm wide awake.'

- Estelle

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

- Dean Rusk

'Awake' was just the most beautiful show. For most of the shooting, we didn't know if they were going to air. You never knew. We were just trying to make it the best it could.

- Daniela Bobadilla

A dream project is anything I do when I'm awake.

- Charles Fleischer

There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.

- Alice Oswald

You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible.

- Cobi Jones

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

- Carl Sandburg

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

- Carl Sagan

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

- Ben Elton

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

- Baltasar Gracian

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

- Babe Ruth

I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.

- Aaron Funk

One of those quiet types who logs a lot of time in the bedlam of her head, I sometimes need to be startled awake to the fact that the outside world still exists.

- Amy Gerstler

I love the smell of frying liver. It kind of releases a sweetness into the air, and it kind of prickles your nose, and it kind of makes you awake... it gets me excited.

- April Bloomfield