Top 90 Restless Quotes

Sundown is often the worst time of day for people with dementia. They can become restless and difficult.

I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don’t even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.

I was very restless, but finally I found my way.

I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working.

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I’m going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, ‘What am I going to do?’ My husband’s view of it was, ‘Stay home… We’ll have more children; you’ll love this.’ And I was very restless about it.

When you watch Barcelona play you want to see Lionel Messi score two goals. If he hasn’t after 80 minutes you can perhaps get restless.

You see, when I go on stage I perform with just a guitar and you have to have very strong material to hold an audience from getting bored or restless. One strong way of doing that is the story because everybody will listen to a story.

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety – panic attacks – and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.

In Princess Margaret I found a fine friend who could steady my restless nature and offer wise counsel.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

We’re a restless bunch, and we have a lot of energy – we’re never going to stand still.

I struggle with myself every day – I am a lonesome person. I talk to my family – and I connect to some people deeply along the way – but I am a restless soul. Singing is the most immediate relief.

I’m pretty restless in bed, so I can lie there for a couple of hours and be like, ‘Hey, that happened today. What if that happened at a zoo?’ I’ll jot the idea down. Then I’m like, ‘All right, so now that it’s a zoo, that penguin’s loose,’ or, whatever. I usually start with broad ideas.

The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.

I think my mom put me in tap classes when I was three, which I never pursued. I don’t know how to tap. Then we moved to Portugal when I was five, and, I think, she put me in ballet classes immediately. Then I was expelled for being too restless – I am too high energy – and was told I could go do rhythm gymnastics.

The creative mind is restless.

I stayed out of the sun when I was young, not because I knew better, but because I’m a Type A personality who gets too restless to lay around and do nothing.

‘Bigg Boss’ is one show that I can never be a part of. I am very restless as a person, so keeping me locked won’t be a good idea.

As I’ve grown older, I have begun to marvel… at how much of my life I have spent among ghosts. These are no malevolent presences… Rather, they are such restless spirits as only the strange twentieth-century cocktail of celebrity, technology and collective memory could produce.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man’s restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

I have always been restless, had a lot of energy.

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

I am restless like my father and do two-three things at a time.

One of the challenges of having exceptionally high quality talent is that they’re constantly restless, and they’re constantly on the lookout for opportunities.

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

In reality, I’m very restless, and I get bored very easily. It’s the same with my career: I need to outperform myself with every film.

If you desire, you are restless.

My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

I have always been restless. I have always been a seeker. It is one of the reasons that I train as hard as I do and I have studied as many disciplines as I have. I need to be challenged.

Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount to know.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

I’ve polished up stories for their reprinted appearances. I guess there’s always something to be changed or improved, but one could get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I’m too restless for that, too eager to begin the next one.

On my last two days of ‘Young and the Restless,’ I had 120-something pages of dialogue. My last two days.

Many actors are not willing to wait and take the risk. They get restless sitting at home and, eventually, take up anything that comes their way. It’s not that I wasn’t offered supernatural shows and love stories again, but I chose to wait for the right opportunity. I deserve variety, or I will feel stagnant.

I will be honest, I’ve had a couple of restless nights thinking, I cannot go and look stupid!’

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don’t go anywhere. They shouldn’t be restless.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious… and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

I’m a very restless person, and new experiences excite me more than anything else.

After eight years on ‘Young and the Restless’ and eight years on ‘Criminal Minds,’ I’m ready for that next phase of my career.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Dre was extremely involved in ‘Restless,’ but I told him that the next record had to be called ‘Man Vs. Machine’ because I have specific topics and ways to work my writing for that topic.

I am a restless person.

Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury.

Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

I’m a restless kind of guy.

You feel stressed when you think that you are working. When I am doing movies, I don’t feel that way at all. When I wake up in the morning and then get dressed up for the job, I feel good because this is what I want. I am the happiest that way and honestly, if at all I get a day or two off, I get restless.

Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

In my generation, except for a few people who’d gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn’t have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn’t go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

I am a workaholic. I am very restless, and I am always looking for good work. I don’t act for the heck of it; I do it because I love it.

This was in ’79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don’t want to look like a disgusting human being – it’s self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.

Waiting makes me restless. When I’m ready, I’m ready.

I’m quite a restless holidaymaker – I can’t lie down on the sand and don’t like too much heat.

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

I have been restless for as long as I can remember.

I was making almost minimum wage on ‘The Young and the Restless.’ But it was my first job, so I accepted my first quote. I had a great time on it, and it obviously led me to better things.

Restless’ was something totally different, and I couldn’t use the same material. ‘Man Vs. Machine’ is scientific. It’s broken down in a whole different way.

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

I don’t feel restless, I just like to travel.

Restless’ was cool. I wish I had more time to put it together.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

Low-cost gear can make restless people like myself feel marginally happier.

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

I TiVo ‘CSI,’ ‘CSI: Miami,’ ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ ‘Young and The Restless’ – my husband hates that one – and that’s pretty much it.

We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the people that broke into restless groups after the ancient Deluge and went wandering over the globe. For we find a socialist tendency in all the barbaric tribes of earth.

I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

I got a restless mentality, I got to move around.

But a lot of writers – and I’m one of them – do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it’s a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

I think I’m pretty calm. But I am very restless and fidgety.

When I did ‘Restless,’ I felt that was a stepping stone.

I have developed my eye as a cinematographer through the craft of operating. When I am not operating, I am often anxious, uncertain, restless, sometimes irritable. When I am in the position of working with Steadicam or remote cameras, I fly with a broken wing.

‘The Young and the Restless’ is my favorite television show.

I’m restless. I’m all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It’s something that’s part of my personality since I was a kid.

People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless ’til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn’t quite right.

I left school at sixteen – I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn’t have Latin, and so couldn’t go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

I need a coaching job in the NBA. I’m restless and I need money.

I thank my personal staff for their restless sacrifice for my work.