"I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths."
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"I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song."
"I don't travel so much now, I get tired"
"I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full. And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to."
"I honor God that much in the way I play. That's why I never believe in getting tired. I don't even know what that word means."
"I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do."
"Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same."
"I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath."
"Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained."
"When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt him and not grow tired of him."
"I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day..." JRR Tolkien, Letter # 174"
"You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It's always extra cool... always a treat."
"There are so many people who've come before me who deserved to be tired. Who didn't have the opportunities, who didn't have the access, who didn't have the money, who didn't have the influence, who didn't have the voice."
"I'm tired. I am old and I have never quit pursuing my goals. I am heavily involved in real estate right now, but I am trying to get out of it altogether, I am just tired."
"Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America."
"Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love."
"Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone"
"I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring."
"I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness."
"My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to."