Best Daze Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Important is not so much our place in the theater of the world but our acceptance in the theater of our inner self. ("Victory daze" )”

World Victory Theater Inner Self Place Acceptance Of Oneself Daze

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.”

Grace Supreme Nervous Mike Precision Metropolitan Daze

Author:Gary Lutz

“Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”

Fire Blind Iron Daze

Book:The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'

“So I'm in love. That crazy, forget to eat, float around in a daze, talk on the phone all night and bounce out of bed every morning hoping to see him kind of love.”

Kind Night Forget Morning Crazy Bed Phones Every Morning Floats All Night Bounce Kinds Of Love Daze

Book:Unearthly

Source: Unearthly

“FOAM OF THE DAZE is a novel like no other, a sexy, innocent, smart and sweet cartoon of a world which then begins, little by little, to bleed real blood until, in the end, the blood turns out to be our own. I read it nearly thirty years ago in its previous incarnation as Mood Indigo and I loved it then; it's still one of my favorite books in the whole world”

“Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.”

Hands Would Be Fire Crime Late Guilt Quitting Christmas Idle December Daze Idle Hands

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet another impulse buy, debating whether to move the recalcitrant artemisia one more time, or daydreaming about where to put the pergola.”

“The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.”

Thinking Knows Matter Body Eye Night Certain Nations Grows President Sleep Existence Leader Wonder Millions Hair Offers Office Wake Up Deeper Every Night Toes Daze

Author:George Washington

“I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a filmmaker and somehow I found myself at the turn of the century. I used lost film as an excuse to express myself.”

Wanted Remember Film Used Turns Found Lost Century Excuse Filmmaker Confused Daze

Author:Guy Maddin

“Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.”

Mind Haze Daze

Author:Tori Amos

“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.”

Want Ideas Hands Wanted Lying Feminism Flower Empty No Idea Classic Being A Woman Peacefulness Daze

Book:Ariel

Source: Ariel

“No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.”

Knows Believe Children Earth Willing Adults Genuine Wander Motive Cake Biscuits Daze

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther

“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free—— The peacefulness is so big it dazes you, And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets. It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.”

Want Ideas Hands Bigs Wanted Lying Asks Names Imagine Flower Mouths Empty No Idea Communion Tag Peacefulness Tablets Trinkets Daze

Author:Sylvia Plath

“To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.”

Self Life Is Expression Sunshine Stomach Toil Always Happy Ardor Remuneration Daze

Author:Jack London

“Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable --" "He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of daze. "He's my brother.”

Said Effort Brother My Friends Obvious Loyalty Staring Tone My Brother Jace Isabelle Lightwood Daze

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling”

Said Walks Mazes Starlings Daze

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.”

World Want Needs Giving Persons Doe Soul Facts Happens Walks Fiction Masters Fool Drink Absolutes Compensation Whisky Absolute Freedom Faith Hope Daze

Book:Boy: Tales of Childhood

Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood

“Yelling a battle cry—more to motivate himself than frighten his foes—Lukel grabbed the table leg and swung it at a soldier. The wood bounced off the man's helmet, but the blow was powerful enough to daze him, so Lukel followed it with a solid blow to the face. The soldier dropped and Lukel grabbed his weapon. Now he had a sword. He only wished he knew how to use it.”

Men Enough Use Faces Powerful Cry Battle Weapons Tables Soldier Blow Legs Woods Foe Yelling Helmet Battle Cry Daze

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very much different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment for what it actually was; I suppose we never do. Instead, I only yawned, and shook myself from the momentary daze that had come upon me, and went on my way down the stairs.”

Thinking Way Different Moments Might Courses Realizing Particular Chosen My Way Halls Crucial Stairs Momentary Deserted Crucial Moments Daze

Author:Donna Tartt

“The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.”

Thinking Way Moments Seems Ability Eternity Disappear Evening Afternoon Slides Daze

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“I didn't realize at the moment exactly what I had done...I only realized the enormity of it when I walked into the press room and got a long standing ovation.It wasn't until I came out of my daze that I began to appreciate my accomplishment.”

Long Done Moments Realizing Rooms Standing Appreciate Presses Golf Accomplishment Ovation Daze

Author:Al Geiberger

“The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.”

Want Needs Walks Walking Drink Daze

Book:Boy: Tales of Childhood

Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.”

Persons Freedom Stupid Fool Absolutes Compensation Absolute Freedom Daze Executive Compensation

Book:Boy: Tales of Childhood

Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood

“I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam”

Kind Ends Remember Found Vietnam Daze

Author:Parker Stevenson

“Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.”

Ifs Night Sleep Missing Walking Appreciate Electricity Deprived Day And Night Noticing Gratefulness Ankles Sleepless Nights Daze Power Failure

Author:David Steindl-Rast