Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

D. H. Lawrence

Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats!

Conor Oberst

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

Daniel Defoe

So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.

Dan Chaon

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

Dashiell Hammett

Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one.

Davy Jones

People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.

David Spade

No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late.

David Lodge

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about

Charles Bukowski

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Tim McGraw

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

Thomas Wilson

First, never go against the best light you have; second, take care that your light be not darkness.

Red Buttons

Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

Toni Morrison

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.

Tom Stoppard

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

Tom Stoppard

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.

Tom Hanks

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

Tina Fey

Feminists do the best Photoshop because they leave the meat on your bones. They don’t change your size or your skin color. They leave in your disgusting knuckles, but they may take out some armpit stubble. Not because they’re denying its existence, but because they understand that it’s okay to make a photo look as if you were caught on your best day in the best light.