Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesar Romero

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

Cheyenne Jackson

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

Antonio Tabucchi

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Charles Kuralt

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

Alain de Botton

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

Barbara Kingsolver

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

Delia Smith

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

Chuck Palahniuk

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Amy Grant

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

C. S. Lewis

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Carl Maria von Weber

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Sagan

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Bertrand Russell

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

William Shakespeare

Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

Nermine Othman

Why use them? Why show them? We have had enough suffering and we don't want any more.

Milwaukee Brewers

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,

Warren Farrell

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

Hannah Kent

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

Joe Paterno

I was thinking 'When are we going to get this thing over. I looked at my watch at one point and it was three hours past my bedtime and we were still playing.

Adam Goldstein

Though we think bedtime is the last thing on anyone's mind while on a Royal Caribbean cruise, we do realize that sleeping well is essential to our guest's vacation experience.

Eula Biss

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.

Melanie Payne

This program has been a tremendous help. Dylan has to have his bedtime story every night and it usually ends up being five or six bedtime stories. This has really helped him develop intellectually.

Paul Auster

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

Elton John

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

Dom DeLuise

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.