Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing. — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare. — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
“Yawning, Aden rubbed his eyes, blinked three more times, and yawned again. “Without breakfast? I never run away on an empty stomach.” — Jack Lewis Baillot Copy Share Image
Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
“Reading your work out loud to yourself it's good. It helps even more if you read to people. If they start yawning… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“There was no wire across in those days, no big house on the other side; nothing but the open yap of the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Saturday morning, I'm still yawning, Iphone's going beep! Trying to see whats going on, grabbed it wrong, dropped it and cracked my… — Rachel Copy Share Image
I consider conversations with people to be mind exercises, but I don't want to pull a muscle, so I stretch a lot.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Be tasteless, rude, and offensive, Live in a swamp and be three dimensional, Put a live chicken in your underwear, Get all… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
“Honesty is occasionally the best policy," she said yawning. And then she added, "By the Black Staff of Beldar, I am tired.… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
The worst thing about depression isn't the sense that you're accentuating the negative, it's that you're seeing things the way they really… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake’s. She had stretched… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Though my muscles may stiffen, though my skin may wrinkle, may I never find myself yawning at life. — Toyohiko Kagawa Copy Share Image
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I'm hopefully in bed and asleep by 10:30. I'm usually yawning by 7:30, 8. You go to the gym and push yourself… — Kenny Stills Copy Share Image
