Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patti Smith

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

Ozzy Osbourne

I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.

Ozzy Osbourne

I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.

Ovid

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

Ovid

Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

Ovid

Sleep, nature's rest, divine tranquility, That brings peace to the mind....

Ovid

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

Paul Oakenfold

U2 and folks like that. They all have that similar drive and that belief in themselves. They're early birds ... they're up working when everyone else is sleeping. They're simply all great at what they do.

Paul Eluard

I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for my man’s gleam A better fate than for the common nights Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth In your eyes who reveal to us Our endless solitude Are no longer what they thought themselves to be You cannot be known Better than I know you.

Paul Eluard

Even when we sleep we watch over one another.

Paul Farmer

I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment. I can't stand that.

Paul Bowles

He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just come. If he had not the energy to ascertain his position in time and space, he also lacked the desire. ... In utter comfort, utter relaxation he lay absolutely still for a while, and then sank back into on the the light momentary sleeps that occur after a long, profound one.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I've always been a horror fan! Ever since I can vastly remember, and I think it's because I was so terrified of monsters and ghosts as a kid that I had to sleep in front of my parents room until I was 12.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.

Marya Hornbacher

The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up.

Marshall McLuhan

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.

Mark Helprin

She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.

Marguerite Young

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

Oswald Chambers

Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

Paul Samuelson

Economists are said to disagree too much but in ways that are too much alike: If eight sleep in the same bed, you can be sure that, like Eskimos, when they turn over, they'll all turn over together.

Pamela Moore

I can't sleep,I can't but when all else fails I just breath...

Pam Brown

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

Jupiter Hammon

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

Julia Jones

One of my modeling bookers told me that the most important thing is to try to be vigilant about taking care of yourself. Get sleep, don't be afraid to trim your hair even if you're trying to grow it out, don't bite your fingernails, and stay in shape. A lot of it is in the little things.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

If you wear clothing, and put out trash you are using up resources that others also need BUT I can pay attention and I can do better. That I know for sure about me, my soul needs to try or I can't lay my head down on my pillow at night and even hope to sleep.

Kristin Cavallari

I swear by Neutrogena facial wash - I never sleep in my makeup!

Knute Nelson

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

Nate Ruess

I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.

Ken Baumann

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

Karen White

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

Julian Casablancas

I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

Keith Richards

I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I'll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It's a little embarrassing to admit it; I'm an old man now. It's important to me though.

Katie Couric

That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours.