George Carlin Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Sleep, Dental Floss

• Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

  George Carlin

  Fun, Sleep, Years

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

• I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep.

  George Carlin

  Sleep, Animal, Vegetarian

• I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a day for seven to ten days. Then it would take a few more weeks to get over a vague sort of depression. Then I'd be off on another run.

  George Carlin

  Running, Sleep, Goes On

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• I never took reds or Quaaludes to balance out the coke. So when it got to be four in the morning and the gram was three quarters gone, I'd start wishing it was nine o'clock and hoping the guy got up early. But, of course, he didn't sleep either, so there was no sweat. During all those years, I was always looking forward to the next snort or the next guy I could score from.

  George Carlin

  Morning, Sleep, Sweat

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'

  George Carlin

  Believe, Sleep, Fiction

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.35, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.

  George Carlin

  Sleep, People, Gone

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.33, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered.

  George Carlin

  Dog, Sleep, Cat

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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