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 ~
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
~By Thomas Moore ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
~By Pat Nixon ~
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
~By William Temple ~
But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
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 ~
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
~By Edmund Spenser ~
I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.
~By Morgan Brittany ~
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
~By John Donne ~
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
~By Pedro Calderon de la Barca ~
Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.
~By Robert Crippen ~
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 ~
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
~By Patti Smith ~
Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
~By Joan Rivers ~
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 ~
Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.
~By Chris LeDoux ~
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.
~By Katie Couric ~
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
~By Marguerite Young ~
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
~By Jean Paul ~
I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
~By Val Kilmer ~
When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!
~By Michael Strahan ~
What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?
~By Arthur Golden ~
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 ~
Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
~By James Howell ~
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
~By William Faulkner ~
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
~By Marge Piercy ~
After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.
~By Charles Perrault ~
The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
~By Frances McDormand ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.
~By Garth Brooks ~
He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.
~By Richard Barnfield ~
I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.
~By Dick York ~
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
~By James Freeman Clarke ~
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 ~
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.
~By Alyssa Milano ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
~By Harold MacMillan ~
There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.
~By Andrew Wiles ~
I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
~By Shirley MacLaine ~
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
~By Robert Frost ~
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
~By Billy Boyd ~
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
~By Bill Hybels ~
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
~By Bob Edwards ~
I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.
~By Mordechai Vanunu ~
Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
~By Ben Folds ~
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 ~
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
~By Danny Glover ~
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
~By Albert Camus ~
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
~By Luigi Pirandello ~
Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
~By Louis Leakey ~
I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I'll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It's not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced.
~By Kristen Bell ~
Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.
~By Morley Safer ~
It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.
~By Jessica Cutler ~
As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.
~By Colleen Atwood ~
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 ~
They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
~By J. Reuben Clark ~
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 ~
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
~By Lord Byron ~
I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
~By George Borrow ~
I feel good now. I've gained all my weight back after getting stoned for three weeks and not eating and not sleeping much. I've been coming by my mom's and eating food.
~By Marc Wallice ~
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 ~
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
~By Thomas Chandler Haliburton ~
In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.
~By Walter Reisch ~
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 ~
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
~By Jack London ~
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
~By Ben Affleck ~
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
~By Christie Todd Whitman ~
If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.
~By Dustin Diamond ~
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
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 ~
In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.
~By Amy Grant ~
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 ~
The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
~By Anna Quindlen ~
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
~By Alphonse Allais ~
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