#wok

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#any #awoke #begin #child #clever

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#eight #i #morning #night #obsessed

Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened. ↗

— A. J. McLean

#bed #happened #how #i #idea

If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#day #every #every day #face #first

I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#attempt #came #closet #felt #i

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#awoke #curiosity #early #i #i think

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

#expecting #feel #felt #gold #gold medal

I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#bed #go #honest #i #pursuit

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#boulevard #dark #down #drove #famous

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#better #better life #called #children #could