300 Quotes on Sleep

• The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

  Author: Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe

• Invest in rest because life can be exhausting in parallel with flourishing.

  Author: Myles Montplaisir

• 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.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• 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.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  Author: Warren Zevon

• If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• 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.

  Author: Don Young

• 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.

  Author: Susannah York

• 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.

  Author: Dick York

• I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

  Author: Dick York

• 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.

  Author: William Yeats

• Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

  Author: William Wycherley

• When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."

  Author: Steven Wright

• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

  Author: William Wordsworth

• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Wolfe

• Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.

  Author: April Winchell

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  Author: Harold Wilson

• I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

  Author: Harold Wilson

• 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.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• 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.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

  Author: Billy Wilder

• 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.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

  Author: Brooke Westcott

• My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

  Author: Mark Webber

• 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.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

  Author: Mary Ward

• 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.

  Author: Bill Walton

• Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

  Author: Barbara Walters

• When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

  Author: Robert Wagner

• 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.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

  Author: Linda Vester

• In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

  Author: Donatella Versace

• 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.

  Author: Milo Ventimiglia

• 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.

  Author: Suzanne Vega

• I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

  Author: Mordechai Vanunu

• I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

  Author: Jack Valenti

• You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

  Author: Mike Tyson

• I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

  Author: Anne Tyler

• 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.

  Author: Joe Torre

• When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.

  Author: Benicio Toro

• If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

  Author: Rip Torn

• The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

  Author: James Thurber

• But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

  Author: James Thurber

• I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• 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.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

  Author: Twyla Tharp

• 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.

  Author: Nikola Tesla

• Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

  Author: Janet Street-Porter

• How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

  Author: Bram Stoker

• I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

  Author: Mary Stewart

• Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

  Author: James Stephens

• It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• 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.

  Author: Joanna Southcott

• Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep, as long as you're happy with the way you are and the way you look, that's the most important thing. I think it's an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you're wearing, but not if that's the most important thing.

  Author: Ashlee Simpson

• Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

  Author: Sidney Sheldon

• 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.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

  Author: George Shaw

• But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

  Author: Karl Shapiro

• The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

  Author: Tupac Shakur

• Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

  Author: Campbell Scott

• 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.

  Author: Albert Schweitzer

• We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

  Author: Olive Schreiner

• Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• 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.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is.

  Author: Fred Savage

• Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.

  Author: Peter Sarsgaard

• For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

  Author: George Santayana

• 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.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• 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.

  Author: Pierre Salinger

• 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.

  Author: Morley Safer

• I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

  Author: George Ryan

• My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

  Author: Samuel Rutherford

• Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  Author: Salman Rushdie

• Childhood is the sleep of reason.

  Author: Jean Rousseau

• I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

  Author: Joel Rosenberg

• A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

  Author: Joan Rivers

• 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.'.

  Author: Joan Rivers

• A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

  Author: Mary Rinehart

• Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

  Author: Sally Ride

• 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!

  Author: Sally Ride

• 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.

  Author: Sally Ride

• If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.

  Author: Christina Ricci

• You can only sleep in one bed at a time.

  Author: Nick Rhodes

• Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.

  Author: Walter Reisch

• I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

  Author: Oliver Reed

• 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.

  Author: Henry Reed

• 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.

  Author: Henry Reed

• 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.

  Author: Noel Redding

• 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?

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

  Author: Gail Porter

• In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

  Author: Luigi Pirandello

• Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

  Author: T. Pickens

• Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.

  Author: Bernadette Peters

• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

  Author: William Penn

• If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.

  Author: Robin Penn

• For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

  Author: Jean Paul

• Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

  Author: Jean Paul

• Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

  Author: Walter Pater

• I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

  Author: Ann Patchett

• From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

  Author: Paracelsus

• Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

  Author: Ovid

• People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  Author: George Orwell

• We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

  Author: George Orwell

• Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

  Author: Charles Olson

• My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

  Author: Mary Oliver

• Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

  Author: Conor Oberst

• 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.

  Author: Conor Oberst

• 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.

  Author: Pat Nixon

• I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.

  Author: Dennis Nilsen

• 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.

  Author: Gerard Nerval

• In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

  Author: Knute Nelson

• 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.

  Author: Holly Near

• When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

  Author: Wolfgang Mozart

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Moore

• I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

  Author: Arthur Miller

• I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.

  Author: Alyssa Milano

• Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.

  Author: Gustave Meyrink

• If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

  Author: Ethel Merman

• Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

  Author: Herman Melville

• Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

  Author: Herman Melville

• Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

  Author: Rod McKuen

• 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'.

  Author: Scotty McCreery

• We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.

  Author: John McCrae

• Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

  Author: Amelie Mauresmo

• 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.

  Author: Jacques Maritain

• I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.

  Author: Robert Mapplethorpe

• I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.

  Author: Jena Malone

• No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

  Author: Harold MacMillan

• In my spare time I like to sleep.

  Author: Jacob Lusk

• You can sleep with a blonde, you can sleep with a brunette, but you'll never get any sleep with a redhead!

  Author: Jamie Luner

• You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

  Author: Clare Luce

• 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.

  Author: H. Lovecraft

• During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

  Author: Mike Love

• My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.

  Author: Lindsay Lohan

• In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.

  Author: Mary Little

• I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

  Author: John Lithgow

• For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

  Author: Anne Lindbergh

• Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

  Author: Anne Lindbergh

• I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.

  Author: Daniel Libeskind

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  Author: C. Lewis

• 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!

  Author: Al Lewis

• A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

  Author: Alan Lerner

• 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.

  Author: Spike Lee

• As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.

  Author: Aleksandr Lebed

• Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

  Author: Louis Leakey

• The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

  Author: David Lawrence

• Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

  Author: Isidore Lautreamont

• God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.

  Author: Cyndi Lauper

• For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

  Author: Doug Larson

• 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.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• 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.

  Author: Philip Larkin

• The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• Sleep is the best meditation.

  Author: Dalai Lama

• No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

  Author: Karl Lagerfeld

• 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.

  Author: Emeril Lagasse

• 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.

  Author: James Lafferty

• Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.

  Author: Stephen LaBerge

• 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.

  Author: Harold Kushner

• 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.

  Author: Bill Kurtis

• 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.

  Author: Charles Kuralt

• 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.

  Author: Chantal Kreviazuk

• 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.

  Author: Jerzy Kosinski

• 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.

  Author: Donald Knuth

• The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.

  Author: Sean Kinney

• It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.

  Author: Kerry King

• 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.

  Author: Val Kilmer

• I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

  Author: Alicia Keys

• We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

  Author: Black Kettle

• 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.

  Author: Nancy Kerrigan

• 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.

  Author: Rose Kennedy

• 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?

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• 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.

  Author: Alphonse Karr

• 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.

  Author: Donald Justice

• 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.

  Author: Angelina Jolie

• When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

  Author: St. Jerome

• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• 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.

  Author: Michael Jackson

• Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

  Author: Hugh Jackman

• 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.

  Author: Aldous Huxley

• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• 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.

  Author: Sarah Hughes

• Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

  Author: James Howell

• You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

  Author: Gordie Howe

• There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.

  Author: Edgar Howe

• 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.

  Author: Bell Hooks

• Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

  Author: Homer

• There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

  Author: Homer

• After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.

  Author: Albert Hofmann

• 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.

  Author: Paris Hilton

• Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

  Author: Paris Hilton

• I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.

  Author: Jennifer Hewitt

• Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.

  Author: James Hetfield

• I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

  Author: Eva Herzigova

• 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.

  Author: Thierry Henry

• Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

  Author: Heinrich Heine

• We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

  Author: William Hazlitt

• There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

  Author: Bob Hayes

• My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.

  Author: Karl Hartmann

• 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.

  Author: Neil Harris

• You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

  Author: Ed Harris

• When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

  Author: Mariska Hargitay

• 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.

  Author: Jupiter Hammon

• To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

  Author: Thomas Haliburton

• In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

  Author: William Gurnall

• When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

  Author: Ursula Guin

• To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.

  Author: George Grey

• 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.

  Author: Meg Greenfield

• There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

  Author: Harold Greene

• 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.

  Author: Amy Grant

• It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

  Author: Baltasar Gracian

• 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.

  Author: Richard Gough

• Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

  Author: William Golding

• 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?

  Author: Arthur Golden

• 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.

  Author: Danny Glover

• 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.

  Author: Philip Gibbs

• 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.

  Author: Geronimo

• My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

  Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

• 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?

  Author: Jim Garrison

• I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

  Author: Leif Garrett

• Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

  Author: Zsa Gabor

• But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Author: Robert Frost

• The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Author: Robert Frost

• 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.

  Author: Erich Fromm

• 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?

  Author: Robert Fripp

• 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.

  Author: Anna Friel

• I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

  Author: Benjamin Franklin

• I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.

  Author: James Franco

• 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.

  Author: Anatole France

• The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

  Author: Anatole France

• She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.

  Author: Jamie Foxx

• 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.

  Author: B. Forbes

• 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.

  Author: Ben Folds

• The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

  Author: W. Fields

• 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.

  Author: Lou Ferrigno

• 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.

  Author: Colin Farrell

• I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

  Author: George Farquhar

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• I don't sleep with happily married men.

  Author: Britt Ekland

• Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

  Author: Marian Edelman

• 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.

  Author: George Eads

• What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

  Author: Bob Dylan

• 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.

  Author: Robert Duvall

• 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.

  Author: Olympia Dukakis

• No man can become a saint in his sleep.

  Author: Henry Drummond

• Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.

  Author: Fran Drescher

• But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.

  Author: John Donne

• I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.

  Author: Casper Dien

• If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.

  Author: Dustin Diamond

• I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

  Author: Rene Descartes

• Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

  Author: Thomas Dekker

• You don't swing where you sleep.

  Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

• 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.

  Author: Richard Davis

• I think even when homeowners love their room, it's still a shock, because you left your house, went to sleep, came home and your room was dramatically and drastically different.

  Author: Paige Davis

• Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

  Author: Evan Davis

• But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

  Author: W. Davies

• 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.

  Author: Stacey Dash

• I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

  Author: Christopher Darden

• We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

  Author: Rodney Dangerfield

• I love to sleep. I'd sleep all day if I could.

  Author: Miley Cyrus

• You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.

  Author: Warren Cuccurullo

• We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

  Author: Hansie Cronje

• Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

  Author: Quentin Crisp

• 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.

  Author: Katie Couric

• So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

  Author: Barry Cornwall

• Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

  Author: Le Corbusier

• 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.

  Author: Bradley Cooper

• When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

  Author: Mason Cooley

• When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.

  Author: Holly Combs

• How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

  Author: William Collins

• I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

  Author: Camille Claudel

• Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

  Author: James Clarke

• Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

  Author: Luc Clapier

• Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

  Author: Emile Cioran

• 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.

  Author: Diane Cilento

• Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

  Author: Noam Chomsky

• Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

  Author: Mary Cheney

• The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

  Author: Chanakya

• The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

  Author: Marc Chagall

• 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.

  Author: Lillian Carter

• Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?

  Author: Helena Carter

• It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights.

  Author: Helena Carter

• 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.

  Author: Dale Carnegie

• Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

  Author: Albert Camus

• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  Author: Taylor Caldwell

• It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

  Author: John Cage

• 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.

  Author: Scott Caan

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