There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
~By John Irving ~
Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
~By Dave Barry ~
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
~By Ovid ~
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 ~
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
~By Manfred von Richthofen ~
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
~By Philip Larkin ~
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 ~
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.
~By Christina Ricci ~
I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it 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 don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
~By Werner Herzog ~
As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.
~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
~By Warren Zevon ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
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 ~
Let sleeping dogs lie.
~By Robert Walpole ~
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 ~
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
~By Og Mandino ~
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 ~
The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.
~By Jacques Maritain ~
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
~By Stan Laurel ~
Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
~By Usher Raymond ~
In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.
~By Donatella Versace ~
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 ~
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 ~
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.
~By Ernst Zundel ~
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
~By Ovid ~
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
~By John Lennon ~
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 you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.
~By April Winchell ~
It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.
~By Lou Ferrigno ~
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
~By Thomas Mann ~
I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.
~By Lillian Gordy Carter ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
~By Henny Youngman ~
The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
~By Frances McDormand ~
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 ~
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
~By Thomas Wolfe ~
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 ~
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
~By Heraclitus ~
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 ~
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
~By Harold Wilson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.
~By George Grey ~
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 ~
So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.
~By Joseph Bologna ~
See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.
~By Paul Begala ~
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 ~
Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
~By Homer ~
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."
~By Steven Wright ~
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 spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.
~By Frankie Valli ~
When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.
~By Michael Apted ~
I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.
~By Dennis Nilsen ~
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
~By Thomas Chandler Haliburton ~
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
~By Robert Browning ~
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 ~
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 ~
With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
~By Bill Pullman ~
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 ~
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
~By Jessamyn West ~
Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.
~By Pierre Salinger ~
But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
~By W. H. Davies ~
I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
~By Walter Reisch ~
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
~By Harold MacMillan ~
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
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 ~
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
~By Bill Cosby ~
I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.
~By Mordechai Vanunu ~
I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.
~By Jim Palmer ~
Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying.
~By Alexa Vega ~
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
~By Plato ~
I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?
~By Jim Garrison ~
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 ~
Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
~By Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont ~
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 ~
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