Yawn Quotes
51 quotes by 49 authors
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A yawn is a silent shout.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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Never start a conversation with a yawn
— Lee Clow
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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
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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
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The trouble with having a wired jaw is that you can never tell when you're sleepy. You can't yawn.
— Rocky Bridges
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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
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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
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Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.
— Santoka Taneda
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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
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Never yawn in front of a lady.
— Frank Sinatra
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If the devil walks in and starts pointing out all kinds of things about you, you yawn. And you go, 'You don’t even know the…
— Paul Washer
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If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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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
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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
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There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly,
— James Cameron
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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
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
— Bette Midler
Who Wrote These Yawn Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 51 Yawn Quotes, led by these top contributors: