Sleep Quotes

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.

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.

I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.

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.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

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

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

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.

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.

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

I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.

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.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

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.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.

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.

It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.

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

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.

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.

We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep.

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.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

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.

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