Sleep Quotes - Page 135

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.

Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.

I am a terrible sleeper.

I had a mouse in my apartment and I couldn't sleep for two nights. I hate mice. They move so fast.

I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.

Life is struggle and sleep.

Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.

Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

There are hundreds of thousands of kids walking around with a sleeping monster inside them.

I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.

Luckily, I was raised by a kind of gypsy family, which is why I always get along better with people who worked in circuses than with kids of other actors. My mom was so carefree with us in a beautiful way. We were used to sleeping anywhere.

I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.

I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!

I think I existed on four hours sleep a night for four years.