Yawns Quotes

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. - Rebecca West

The numbers today are nothing other than big generators of yawns. - Kurt Barnard

The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our yawns. - Helen Rowland

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife. - Aldous Huxley

Let him not eat in the company of his wife, nor look at her, while she eats, sneezes, yawns, or sits at her ease. - Guru Nanak

In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance; they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps; there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by the eagles; the lightning plays about them: the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere. - Victor Hugo

I wanted to do it in the best possible way with great integrity - get rid of the bits where the audience sits through and yawns and keep it moving but not Reader's Digest. - Martin Fredmann

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him. - Herbert Beerbohm Tree

A terrible problem for retailers is that most stores are evoking yawns from consumers, instead of excitement. Retailers just can't keep making the mistake of taking customers for granted by selling ho-hum kind of merchandise. Consumers are looking for unusual and exciting products and they're not finding them. - Kurt Barnard

(The Relay) was held with 12 hours of celebration, laughter, tears, reflection, walking -- and even a few yawns. As a chance to honor cancer survivors for their courage, it was certainly a success. - Sheila Blankenship