Quotes about sleep
sleep winter rivers
Samuel Johnson Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.
sleep animal vegetables
Samuel Johnson Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.
sleep doors law
Samuel Johnson It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
sleep fighting night
Sachin Tendulkar At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.
sleep games bigs
Ryan Giggs You get yourself prepared for a big game, you get yourself up for it. Then afterwards you don't sleep or eat properly.
sleep light sensitive
Rufus Wainwright I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.
sleep rocks trying
Rufus Wainwright I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.
sleep als sleep-well
Robert Jordan Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.
sleep ego servant-leadership
Robert K. Greenleaf Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.
sleep be-prepared
William H. Macy You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.
sleep drink walks
William Hazlitt Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
sleep safety liberty
Wendell Phillips The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
sleep eye heart
Wendell Berry Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.
sleep dark love-is
Wendell Berry Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot have it all, or want it all. In its abundance it survives our thirst. In the evening we come down to the shore to drink our fill, and sleep, while it flows through the regions of the dark. It does not hold us, except we keep returning to its rich waters thirsty. We enter, willing to die, into the commonwealth of its joy.
sleep tired mind
Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.
sleep night insomnia
Vladimir Nabokov He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.
sleep pride giving
Yoko Ono We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
sleep night mind
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as my mind might wish.
sleep way majority
William Osler The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
sleep silence silence-love
Zedd I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.
sleep gains conformity
Zelda Fitzgerald It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
sleep despair wish
Zelda Fitzgerald I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.