The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.
~By Holly Near ~
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
You don't swing where you sleep.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
~By Arthur Young ~
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
~By Barbara Walters ~
You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.
~By Brad Bird ~
When we lost, I couldn't sleep at night. When we win, I can't sleep at night. But, when you win, you wake up feeling better.
~By Joe Torre ~
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
~By William Collins ~
Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star.
~By Bradley Cooper ~
Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
~By Sally Ride ~
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
~By Mary Oliver ~
Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?
~By Stephen LaBerge ~
I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
~By Werner Herzog ~
In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.
~By Edward Albert ~
We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.
~By Noel Redding ~
True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
~By Erich Fromm ~
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
~By Harold Kushner ~
People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.
~By Davy Jones ~
People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.
~By Bruce Campbell ~
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
~By Dean Rusk ~
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
~By Edmund Spenser ~
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
~By Carl von Ossietzky ~
Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
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?
~By Robert Fripp ~
They're like sleeping in a soft bed. Easy to get into and hard to get out of.
~By Johnny Bench ~
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.
~By John McCrae ~
I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.
~By Jason Patric ~
Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
~By Walter F. Mondale ~
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
~By Harold Wilson ~
But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.
~By James Levine ~
When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
~By Billy Sunday ~
I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.
~By Diane Cilento ~
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.
~By Jennifer Love Hewitt ~
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
~By Audre Lorde ~
I'd love to hold a koala. They sleep 22 hours a day, eat eucalyptus leaves and just hang out. I want to spend some time with that guy.
~By Milo Ventimiglia ~
The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.
~By Robert Duvall ~
I'd sleep under a Vermeer.
~By John Lithgow ~
Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.
~By Thierry Henry ~
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
~By Plutarch ~
Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
~By Charles Olson ~
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
~By Rebecca West ~
I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.
~By Sarah Hughes ~
Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word "census," and people fall asleep.
~By Aaron Sorkin ~
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
~By Robert Adams ~
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.
~By Paris Hilton ~
You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
~By Walt Whitman ~
In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
~By Henny Youngman ~
As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.
~By Henry Reed ~
I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.
~By Carter Burwell ~
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
~By Robert Frost ~
It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.
~By Henry Reed ~
My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
~By W. C. Fields ~
I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
~By Billy Wilder ~
You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
~By Mike Tyson ~
I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
~By Laura Kightlinger ~
One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
~By Georg Groddeck ~
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.
~By Louise Brown ~
When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.
~By Henry Reed ~
I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.
~By George Eads ~
I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
~By Ann Patchett ~
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
~By Manfred von Richthofen ~
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.
~By Anna Friel ~
The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.
~By Donald Knuth ~
When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
~By Evan Davis ~
We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep.
~By Richard Branson ~
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
~By Woody Allen ~
My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
~By Mark Webber ~
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.
~By Dominic Chianese ~
I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.
~By Ronnie Spector ~
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
~By Frank Herbert ~
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
~By W. H. Auden ~
I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing "Maria" from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
~By Adam Sandler ~
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
~By Robert Browning ~
If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.
~By Don Young ~
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
~By Penelope Cruz ~
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
~By Anatole France ~
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
~By William Blake ~
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
~By T. Boone Pickens ~
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
~By John Cheever ~
I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.
~By Pedro Martinez ~
I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
~By Sadie Frost ~
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