Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bikram Choudhury

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.

Paracelsus

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. - The Dream Game

We're really starting to see Microsoft gear up. Of course, the company was asleep at the wheel for a long time.

Roger McNamee

Microsoft didn't get to $8 billion in revenues and $7 billion in cash because they fell asleep at the switch.

Management is not asleep at the switch. Anything you can do to move the needle in that direction is terrific for shareholders.

We gave up an awful goal from my standpoint. We fell asleep three minutes in, and now you've got 87 minutes left to try to get back into it. We did everything we could to do that, but it just didn't fall for us.

Richard Alley

We haven't been sleeping on the rights, or asleep at the wheel, in this case.

I was happy with way we played defense in the first half. In the second half, we sort of fell asleep a little bit and didn't box out sometimes, and they crawled back in the game.

Henry Reed

What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening.

NHTSA didn't do its job in responding to information that they had. They fell down on the job, they were asleep at the wheel and they needed to be reminded and this is the wake-up call of all wake-up calls.

Only the Guru is awake, the rest of the world is asleep in emotional attachment and desire.

Jim Capaldi

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

Because of the late hour, we think he might have fallen asleep at the wheel.

I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day 'cause that means it's gonna be up all night.

I fell asleep in the second quarter. Fortunately, I caught some highlights later. It didn't look like Michigan wanted to be there.

I fell asleep a couple times (in the film room). I just looked at the screen because the coaches said to. But by midseason, (guard Jamie Carey) talked to me, and I took interest.

Brad Goreski

I fall asleep on the couch in front of the TV. It's very rare that I see the end of any show.

Jason Chaffetz

From the time I roll out of the cot at 6 A.M. to the time I fall asleep after midnight, I get to do what I love nonstop.

Jam Master Jay

Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s.

We take a lot of pride in that, to be honest. It's one of the things that we've learned. If we're going to be a team that is a success, there are going to be days when our bats are asleep and we're going to need to manufacture. We're pretty good when we get on base, but sometimes we have to steal first.

He looked like he was asleep for awhile.

Until a couple years ago, the FCC was sort of asleep at the wheel when it comes to indecency enforcement, ... We helped jump-start the FCC and get them to look at this issue seriously.

Neneh Cherry

I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.

Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

What this does, at the very least, is raise the question of competence. Did someone fall asleep at the switch?

KaDee Strickland

Oh God, I'm going to get in trouble for saying this, but I grew up falling asleep in church because I was tired from watching horror movies late at night.

Sue Monk Kidd

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

Ezekiel Emanuel

On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that a man's work was important, that he must pursue it tirelessly, and that it might require certain sacrifices, like being away from the warmth and comfort of home.

We were a little asleep in the first 15 minutes. They scored twice before we really got rolling.

Charlie Rose

Nighttime, in a nanosecond, asleep by 10:30. No chance I'll get through the day without two naps. Before noon, around 11 A.M. I catch 30 minutes. Living not far from CBS is perfect because afternoons I go home for another.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.

Fergus Henderson

A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

Tim Pawlenty

Our country has been asleep at the switch on these things. The basic economics are that the supply of fossil fuels is limited and the demand is outstripping the supply. It's a recipe for continued crisis if we don't start changing our ways.