Sleep Quotes

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.

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.

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

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

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.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'

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.

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

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

I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'

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.

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

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?

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.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

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

Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.

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

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.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

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.

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.

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.