I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.
~By Neil Patrick Harris ~
I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.
~By Bill Walton ~
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.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.
~By Mary Cheney ~
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
~By Doug Larson ~
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
~By Herman Melville ~
There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.
~By Richard Berry ~
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 ~
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
No man can become a saint in his sleep.
~By Henry Drummond ~
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
~By George Orwell ~
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 ~
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
~By Conor Oberst ~
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
~By Nelson Algren ~
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
~By Sally Ride ~
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
~By William Dean Howells ~
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
~By Marguerite Young ~
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
~By Jean Paul ~
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 ~
I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.
~By Tom Berenger ~
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.
~By William C. Bryant ~
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.
~By Joanna Southcott ~
All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.
~By Richard Harding Davis ~
If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.
~By Donald Justice ~
I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.
~By Compay Segundo ~
I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning.
~By Gerard Butler ~
Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
~By Tony Blair ~
I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.
~By Colin Farrell ~
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.
~By Connie Chung ~
I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.
~By Emeril Lagasse ~
The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.
~By Chuck Jones ~
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
~By Albert Claude ~
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
~By Jessamyn West ~
We get on well and it won't be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange way of sleeping as he likes to kick off all the blankets and just have them up by his chest.
~By Robbie Keane ~
I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.
~By Michael Jackson ~
I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
~By George Farquhar ~
I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
~By Marcia Wallace ~
The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.
~By John Strachan ~
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
~By Geronimo ~
You can sleep with a blonde, you can sleep with a brunette, but you'll never get any sleep with a redhead!
~By Jamie Luner ~
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
~By Stanley Kunitz ~
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
~By Nikola Tesla ~
Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.
~By Spike Lee ~
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
~By Jane Pauley ~
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
~By Florence King ~
I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
~By Walter Reisch ~
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
~By John Bunyan ~
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
~By Mark Twain ~
While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.
~By Dean Rusk ~
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
~By Rose Kennedy ~
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 ~
Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying.
~By Alexa Vega ~
Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.
~By Amelie Mauresmo ~
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
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 ~
Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!
~By Al Lewis ~
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep?
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
We train in the mornings, and then I go home and rest or sleep, and usually I go for a meal with Abel of a night, as we're the two with no family here, so we tend to hang around together.
~By Richard Gough ~
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
~By John Irving ~
I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.
~By Philip Gibbs ~
Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
~By Gael Garcia Bernal ~
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.
~By Stacey Dash ~
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
~By Jack London ~
And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.
~By Reba McEntire ~
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 ~
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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 ~
Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
~By W. C. Fields ~
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.
~By Bell Hooks ~
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
~By Amelia Barr ~
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.
~By Susannah York ~
You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.
~By Bill Kurtis ~
My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.
~By Devon Werkheiser ~
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
~By Conor Oberst ~
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
~By Arthur Young ~
I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out.
~By Larry Miller ~
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
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 ~
What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep.
~By Henry Reed ~
The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
~By Gail Porter ~
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
~By Saint Teresa of Avila ~
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
~By William Collins ~
I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.
~By Trisha Goddard ~
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
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