Sleep Quotes

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

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.

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.

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.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

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.

I go without sleep, I just go hard.

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.

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

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.

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.

When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.