Yawn Quotes

51 quotes by 49 authors

A yawn is a silent shout. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. — William Shakespeare
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and… — Charles Bowers
The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists,… — David Foster Wallace
Never start a conversation with a yawn — Lee Clow
If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of… — Margaret Thatcher
Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the… — Mary Church Terrell
The trouble with having a wired jaw is that you can never tell when you're sleepy. You can't yawn. — Rocky Bridges
One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as… — A. S. J. Tessimond
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary… — Wyndham Lewis
Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life. — Santoka Taneda
Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the… — Carl Sandburg
Never yawn in front of a lady. — Frank Sinatra
If the devil walks in and starts pointing out all kinds of things about you, you yawn. And you go, 'You donâ€™t even know the… — Paul Washer
If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too. — Malcolm Gladwell
Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed… — Morley Safer
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep,… — Ogden Nash
There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly, — James Cameron
Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive. — Dolly Parton
Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes. — Bette Midler

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