“Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder — and turn quickly to my typewriter.”
Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist
On incentive as a journalist, quoted by Rosamund Essex Church Times (December 30, 1983)
“Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.”
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“No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.”
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Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?
Margaret Fuller book Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Though "the Bard" is often reference to William Shakespeare, Fuller here probably uses the term in a generic sense, and in tribute to the poet-philosopher she considered in some ways her mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who may have made such a statement, which she elsewhere quotes as "I have witnessed many a shipwreck, yet still beat noble hearts".
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Context: I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening. Every spot is seen, every chasm revealed. Climbing the dusty hill, some fair effigies that once stood for symbols of human destiny have been broken; those I still have with me show defects in this broad light. Yet enough is left, even by experience, to point distinctly to the glories of that destiny; faint, but not to be mistaken streaks of the future day. I can say with the bard,
"Though many have suffered shipwreck, still beat noble hearts."
Always the soul says to us all, Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abide by them in action. Such shall be the effectual fervent means to their fulfilment.
“A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Leadership
“I wake up angry every morning and start reading. Then I'm furious.”
Paul Conrad (1924–2010) German theologian
As quoted in Astor, D. (1999). The state of editorial cartooning eyed at Iowa City symposium. Editor & Publisher, 132(43): 35.
“I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.”
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer
1990 interview, as quoted in The New York Times (28 June 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/28/us/ap-us-obit-harlan-ellison.html
“Every morning I wake up and think good, another 24 hours' pipe-smoking.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
A rare interview with Tolkien (1966) — "Tolkien's shire" by John Ezard, The Guardian (28 December 1991) http://www.theguardian.com/books/1991/dec/28/jrrtolkien.classics
“There is a new America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Presidential campaign address, Miami, Florida, (September 1956), as quoted in Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957) edited by James Beasley Simpson
Context: There is a new America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not. The new America is the sum of many small changes — a new subdivision here, a new school there, a new industry where there had been swampland — changes that add up to a broad transformation of our lives. Our task is to guide these changes. For, though change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
“Every morning I get up for two reasons: one is the alarm that rings, the other is you.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Ogni mattina mi alzo per due motivi: uno è la sveglia che suona, l'altro sei tu.
Source: prevale.net
