In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.
There is no snooze button on life - Tara Daniels
Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.
The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.
I'm so lazy I've got a smoke alarm with a snooze button.
Live and let live. You snooze, you lose. Make your life a dream and your dreams come to life.
They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.
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.
I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
When you realize you would consider not having a child just so you could take an occasional snooze and be available to see Batman Retires the same weekend it comes out, you have to take a good hard look at yourself and acknowledge, I am a shallow, shallow person.
We keep waiting for the American people to wake up, and they keep hitting the snooze bar. But something, folks, someday, will wake them up. Of that I'm confident.
Is this seat taken?" a warm sexy drawl asked and I lifted my gaze and smiled up at Dank. "Yes. I'm saving it for my smoking hot boyfriend," I replied teasingly. Dank slid in beside me and put his arm around my shoulder. "Hmmm, well he should have gotten here sooner. You snooze, you lose.
And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the perfect moments last.
Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.
[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's still going. He was like a fireplug.
A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.
