Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.
Edna Ferber
Related Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewrit... SOURCE UNKNOWN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER It is better to wake up alone, knowing you are alone, than to wake up with someone, still being lone... LIV ULLMANN The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA This morning do something different: When you wake up in the morning, wake your forgotten and forsak... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do s... MANOJ ARORA By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I like songs that are so damn catchy that you wake up in the morning with them in your head. ETHAN MENTZER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If... HARRY HERSHFIELD Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon. RAYMOND CHANDLER a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job. SLAPPY WHITE Don't wake up in the morning and wonder why you are here. Wake up and wonder why you are not making ... RANJIT GEORGE Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you... FREDERICK BUECHNER Work with any family members who are near you to begin to reconstruct your financial life on paper. ... BRENT NEISER You wake up in the morning, then go for a jog, pump up the dumb-bell, and take a shower! Put on fres... AVIJEET DAS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS You wake up in the morning and open up the paper and you don't see the assists, the steals, the othe... JAYDEE LUSTER The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. ROBERT BENCHLEY I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute sh... ADRIENNE BAILON If a Monday morning does not excite you and you are not singing on your way to work, you are probabl... SANDEEP GOSWAMY First thing in the morning when you wake up, if you internally declare and believe that today is a g... JACENT MARY MPALYENKANA You need 100% commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [p... ZOE SALDANA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Faith is like going to sleep at night knowing you'll wake up the next morning JESSICA PONCE DE LEON Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good. UZOMA NNADI When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the da... GEORGE ALEXIOU Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind... LEMONY SNICKET If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning, and you think you are an o... JEREMY CLARKSON I want to be the reason you look at your phone when you wake up in the morning and smile GENEREUX PHILIP On Monday, your lineup is set in stone. You can make a pickup any day, but it won't show up in your ... GREGG KLAYMAN If you wake up in the morning and your favorite artist isn't on the service that you're payi... TROY CARTER Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake ... SHALOM HARLOW I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. CLARENCE B. KELLAND It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning,... NEIL GAIMAN Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your br... RAYMOND CHANDLER You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time... MICK JAGGER There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up... CHUCK SCHUMER I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morn... EARL NIGHTINGALE Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are... DEYTH BANGER I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not k... NELSON MANDELA To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ... GARY F EVANS... You learn over the years how to look at your husband when you wake up in the morning to know whether... CAROL CUNNINGHAM Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mi... ELIZABETH WURTZEL Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's gut... JOE KAPP I think the secret is, no matter how good you are Saturday night, on Monday morning you start with a... ANDREW MILLER You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you're excited for the day? That's... KIRSTEN DUNST 'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before ... RAYMOND CHANDLER You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you w... SHALOM HARLOW If you woke up this morning, Looked in the mirror,
walked outside to pick up the paper, smelled
the ... GEORGE REX The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because som... RAY BRADBURY I think about how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your le... JOHN GREEN I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your le... JOHN GREEN I wake up from dreams and go "Wow, put this down on paper." The whole thing is strange. You hear the... MICHAEL JACKSON Every morning, wake up with the warmth and the light of the rising sun in your heart. DEBASISH MRIDHA A great idea is like a fast moving train without brake & all contrary minds that crosses its path wi... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?' NEWT GINGRICH To wake up each morning is a great miracle. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and
lo! Your purse is magnificentl... ARNOLD BENNET The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificentl... ARNOLD BENNETT It’s hard when you’re missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of yo... LEMONY SNICKET Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. S... JODI PICOULT Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a... RICHELLE MEAD You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for mile... BILLIE HOLIDAY You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spe... JANE GOODSELL You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few... LYNN ABBEY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can... G-EAZY When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil servic... PAUL MERTON You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasan... MARYA HORNBACHER When you wake up with a song stuck in your head, it means an angel sang you to sleep. DENISE BAER A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the mornin... MUNSHI PREMCHAND I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star.... KRISTEN STEWART There are only two kinds of people in the world - there are those who wake up in the morning and say... UNKNOWN Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in ... CRAIG BROWN You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that ... LARRY PAGE If I didn't know you I would say I don't know you. JAIME CABRERA You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well. FREDERICK BUECHNER It’s something I never knew about her. How bizarre that you can know your entire life, see their m... KELSEY SUTTON When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible ... LYNDA RESNICK We're kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second... KIEFER SUTHERLAND Winners are not people who never failed but people who never quit.How much do you really want to win... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it... MICK JAGGER It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and ... PABLO SANDOVAL You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.' CHARLES GWATHMEY A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge... JON RONSON If you're not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacu... JANE GOODSELL You know what it is like to wake up in the middle of a bunch of corpses with a little girl in your a... CAROLINA CODY ALDAZ Be gentle, always delicate with every soul you meet, for every single morning TYLER KNOTT GREGSON Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. We wake up to be alive and to revive our lives; we don’t wake up to keep sleeping! We wake up not ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is... SCOTT ADAMS 'The Lunchbox' has been a blessing - all gift-wrapped and tied with a bow. Life is a lunchbo... NIMRAT KAUR History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
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It's the same damn thing again and again. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Pity me that the heart is slow to learn / What the swift mind beholds at every turn. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Life is a quest and love a quarrel ... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It gives a lovely light. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a ... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in ... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Beauty is whatever gives joy. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I love humanity but I hate people. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Few Come This Way Few come this way; not that the darkness Deters them, but t... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must ... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Music my rampart, and my only one. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer qui... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Song of a Second April APRIL this year, not otherwise Than April of a year ag... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Moon, that against the lintel of the west Your forehead lean until the gate be swung, Long... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY After all, my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Ju... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Ebb I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a holl... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or ... EDNA O'BRIEN Be to her, Persephone, All the things I might not be; Take her head upon your knee. S... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY For men that are afraid to die Must warm their hands before a lie; The fire that's built o... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Love is Not All Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a r... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY