Amy Tan Quotes

I use my iPhone as an alarm, so when it goes off, I pick it up and casually scroll through whatever emails may have come in while I was asleep.

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.

I'm out of bed before the alarm goes off.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

During the week my alarm wakes me up at 6 A.M., so the latest I can sleep on Saturdays is about 7 A.M.

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

I can't seem to shake waking up early.

When people ask me for playlists, I always put in 'Moonlight Sonata' because it is my favorite song. I play it all the time.

I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.

The alarm on my wife's phone is 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered,' so that's a great way to wake up.

When I need some energy in the morning I can put a metal CD in my player, because it gets me going! Classical music will send me off the road!

I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.

I wake up naturally and begrudgingly around 6:10 A.M. That's wired in so deeply that I wake up at that time no matter where I am, in any time zone. I wish I could sleep later.

I use a progressive alarm that makes a soft sound at first and then progressively gets louder. But I usually wake on the first sound, so it doesn't disturb my wife. When I used a loud alarm clock, I was more likely to hit it on the head and go back to sleep.

I set my alarm for 7:30 A.M., but it's really hard for me to wake up in the mornings.

When I wake up in the morning, I just go.

I wish it were different, but my body clock wakes me up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. I was even talking yesterday about how, if I want to get enough sleep, I have to be in bed at 10. That means I'm totally a grandma.

I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto.

I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

I saw something stupid in the paper today - a new alarm clock that makes no noise. It's for people who don't like loud noises. Instead, it slowly hits you with light and gets brighter and brighter until you wake up. I already have one of those... it's called a window.

All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright.

My song is ya girlfriend's wakin up ringer... or alarm or whateva. She'll be here at 6 in the morn if I let her

My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?