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yawn

«Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.»
Author: Bette Midler (Actress, Singer) | Keywords: cherish, yawn, yawning, yawns
«Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.»
«Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep: / Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him.»
Author: Walter de La Mare | Keywords: Tim, yawn
«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'' speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly ''revolutionary'.' What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!»
«Never yawn in front of a lady.»
Author: Frank Sinatra (Actor, Singer) | About: Respect | Keywords: yawn, yawning, yawns
«A yawn is a silent shout.»
«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 worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.»
«'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world»