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 ~
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
~By Joan Rivers ~
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 ~
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
~By Barry Cornwall ~
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 ~
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
~By William Blake ~
I'd sleep under a Vermeer.
~By John Lithgow ~
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
~By Manfred von Richthofen ~
God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.
~By Cyndi Lauper ~
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
~By Pierre Trudeau ~
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
~By Thomas Mann ~
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
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 ~
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 ~
The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it.
~By Scott Caan ~
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 minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
~By Francesca Annis ~
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
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 ~
Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.
~By Dick Bruna ~
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 ~
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
~By Lord Byron ~
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
~By Robert Frost ~
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the "I," under another form, continues the task of existence.
~By Gerard De Nerval ~
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
A lot of people are tired around here, but I'm not sure they're ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.
~By Jim Jones ~
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 ~
Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
~By Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont ~
It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
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 ~
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 ~
I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
~By George Best ~
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
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 ~
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.
~By Rick Larsen ~
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
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 ~
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
~By Meg Greenfield ~
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
~By Ben Affleck ~
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
~By Joel Rosenberg ~
Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
~By Tony Blair ~
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 ~
When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!
~By Michael Strahan ~
There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.
~By Della Reese ~
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 ~
Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
~By Charles Olson ~
If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.
~By Ethel Merman ~
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
~By Werner Herzog ~
I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.
~By John McCrae ~
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
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 ~
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
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 ~
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
~By Conor Oberst ~
What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening.
~By Henry Reed ~
I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.
~By Mordechai Vanunu ~
You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
~By Conor Oberst ~
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
~By W. S. Merwin ~
When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.
~By James Lafferty ~
We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
~By Carl von Ossietzky ~
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 ~
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
~By John Irving ~
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'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
~By Ringo Starr ~
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 ~
Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?
~By Christine Baranski ~
Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.
~By Maria Monk ~
Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.
~By Catherine O'Hara ~
Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.
~By Mary Cheney ~
When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.
~By Henry Reed ~
Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.
~By Tony Visconti ~
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
~By William Golding ~
To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
~By Barbara Cartland ~
I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day.
~By Devon Sawa ~
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 ~
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 ~
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
~By Alphonse Allais ~
Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'.
~By Scotty McCreery ~
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 ~
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
~By Lord Byron ~
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
~By John Cheever ~
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
~By Morrie Schwartz ~
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 ~
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