“Q’s Mother: [first lines] Quincy, get up! It’s after seven o’clock, and you’re gonna be late for school again. Quincy, did you not hear me? I said get up. Q: [as he is waking up, under his breath] It’s bullshit, yo. Q’s Mother: Excuse me young man, what did you just say? Q: Nothing, ma. Q’s Mother:…”— Ernest R. Dickerson, Gerard Brown, Q, Omar Epps, imdb.com
“I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, brainyquote.com
“I was a warrior who dreamed he could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always wake up.”— James Cameron, Jake Sully, Sam Worthington, imdb.com
“When I was lying in the V.A. hospital with a big hole blown through the middle of my life, I started having these dreams of flying. I was free. But sooner or later, you always have to wake up.”— James Cameron, Jake Sully, Sam Worthington, imdb.com
“He’ll wake up. Granted he won’t have any teeth left but he will be a wiser man for it.”— Steven Knight, Alfie Solomons, Tom Hardy, imdb.com
“You’re all prisoners. What you call sanity, it’s just a prison in your minds that stops you from seeing that you’re just tiny little cogs in a giant absurd machine. Wake up! Why be a cog? Be free like us. Just remember, smile.”— Ken Woodruff, Jerome Valeska, Cameron Monaghan, imdb.com
“Stiles: So, you killed her? Scott: I don't know. I just woke up. I was sweating like crazy, and I couldn't breathe. I've never had a dream where I woke up like that before. Stiles: Really? I have. It usually ends a little differently”— Jeff Davis, Stiles Stilinski, Dylan O'Brien, imdb.com
“My waking and sleeping seem mixed together. I’m walking in a dream half the time, and sleeping through reality the other half.”— Margaret Weis, amazon.com
“On the days it’s hard to get out of bed, I remember the only way it gets better is if I actually get out. There will never be sunshine if I keep the blinds permanently shut.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“I didn’t want to wake up this morning, and then I thought of you and couldn’t fall back asleep.”— David Gorkonel, awesoroo.com
“Since I spent the whole night dreaming of you, I thought it was only appropriate to message you this morning and wake you up.”— David Gorkonel, awesoroo.com
“Darling I wake up just to sleep with you I open my eyes so I could see with you and I live so I can die with you.”— Beyoncé, vimeo.com
“Presently the small of coffee began to fill the room. This was morning’s hallowed moment. In such a fragrance the perversity of the world is forgotten, and the soul is inspired with faith in the future.”— Halldór Laxness, goodreads.com
“I envy the cup of coffee that gets to kiss your sleepy lips awake every cold and bitter morning.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“On TV, there’s another war. Around and around and around. Even the most entrenched believers in the new global order have a mounting sense that some fundamental mindshift is needed. The contradictions of late-capitalist life put increasing pressure on our psyches to synthesize the data, yet insights…”— Rob Wipond, adbusters.org