Quotes about sleep
sleep writing two
I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list. Ann Patchett
sleep differences together
Time is the most extraordinary gift for friendship. You'll get to eat your meals together and study together; in some cases you'll even sleep in the same room. You'll have time to waste on each other. You'll find out every single thing you have in common and still have time to catalogue all of your differences. Don't underestimate the vital necessity of friendship in your life because it is the thing that will sustain you later, when there will be considerably less time.
sleep law bridges
The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges. Anatole France
sleep law bridges
The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
sleep feet clouds
I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds. Anais Nin
sleep vegetables law
If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa. Alton Brown
sleep writing cities
Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crowded calendar suddenly seem spacious. Three or four hours pass in a moment; I have no idea what time it is, because I never check the clock. If I chose to listen, I could hear the swish of taxis bound for downtown bars or the soft saxophone riffs that drift from a neighbor's window, but nothing gets through. I am suspended in a sensory deprivation tank, and the very lack of sensation is delicious. Anne Fadiman
sleep cat bookstores
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos...
sleep silence impossible
Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill. Anne Frank
sleep eye night
leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing
sleep night thinking
I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!
sleep insomnia nurse
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse. William Shakespeare
sleep home night
Day, night, late, early, At home, abroad, alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been To have her match'd; and having now provided A gentleman of princely parentage, Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd, Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts, Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man- And then to have a wretched puling fool, A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender, To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love; I am too young, I pray you pardon me'!
sleep three noses
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
sleep autumn moon
In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening? Dogen
sleep play symphony
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? Robert Fripp
sleep thinking years
It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone’s arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts. Robert Fulghum
sleep miles miles-to-go
I have miles to go before I sleep... Robert Frost
sleep house politics
Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
sleep discovery long
So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep. Robert Bloch
sleep hammers way
Infants need the most sleep, and, what is more, get it. Stunning them with a soft, padded hammer is the best way to insure their getting it at the right times. Robert Benchley
sleep men gun
All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. They don't understand them, and they don't want to get near them. I sleep with one under my pillow, instead of a gun. Rita Rudner
sleep alive world
I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.
sleep water routine
My beauty routine is basically plenty of sleep and lots of water. Rebecca Gayheart
sleep eight water
I drink at least five bottles of water a day and always get eight hours of sleep.
sleep littles poor
The poor sleep little. Thomas Otway
sleep trying bed
Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Thomas Browne
sleep night men
Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tranquillity of charity and all friendly society. These are the tongues that set the world on fire--cankerers of reputation, and, like that of Jonah's gourd, wither a good name in a single night.
sleep arrows evil
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.
sleep house waking
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
sleep fighting awake
Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight. Thomas R. Marshall
sleep eye noses
I never take any notice of reviews-unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now. Robert Mitchum
sleep advice problem
Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do. Robert McKee