Can't Sleep Quotes - Page 3

• I have these slumber parties with my father [Steve Tyler], and when we can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows all about the good creams and masks.

  Liv Tyler

  Father, Party, Sleep

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• I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'.

  Ace Hood

  Mean, Sleep, Progress

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• When I can't sleep, I don't count sheep. I count lovers.
  And by the time I reach 38 or 39, I'm asleep.

  Miriam Hopkins

  Sleep, Sheep, Lovers

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• I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment. I can't stand that.

  Paul Farmer

  Sleep, Treatment, I Can

  "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World". Book by Tracy Kidder, 2004.

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• there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

  Madame de Stael

  Sleep, Twenties, Interest In Life

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• 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.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Sleep, Fog, Tasks

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• I can't sleep,I can't but when all else fails I just breath.

  Pamela Moore

  Sleep, Failing, Breaths

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• The Fulton Fish Market will be more of an odor than a landmark at this time of day, but it really swings out at four o'clock in the morning - another Timothy 'Speed' Levitch recommendation if you can't sleep and you like fish.

  Timothy Levitch

  Morning, Sleep, Swings

  "The Cruise". Documentary, October 23, 1998.

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• Seems like just yesterday, you were a part of me. I used to stand so tall, I used to be so strong; your arms around me tight, everything felt so right - unbreakable, like nothing could go wrong. Now I can't breathe. No, I can't sleep; I'm barely hanging on. Here I am, once again, I'm torn into pieces. Can't deny it, can't pretend, just thought you were the one. Broken up, deep inside, but you won't get to see the tears I cry.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Strong, Lost Love, Sleep

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• Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Lying, Sleep, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• Turkey's great if you're one of those people who can't sleep on planes because when the tryptophan kicks in, it's no problem.

  Mike Pesca

  Sleep, Turkeys, People

  "Panel Round One". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Mike Pesca, www.npr.org. January 16, 2016.

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• You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Sleep, Way

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• I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Sleep, Night, Nocturnal

  Source: greendayminority.tumblr.com

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• If you can't sleep, count sheep. Don't count endangered animals. You will run out.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.

  Sandra Bullock

  Sleep, Sick, Done

  "Sandra Bullock Interviewed - 'Premonition'". Press conference, collider.com. March 12, 2007.

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• I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.

  Georgette Heyer

  Sleep, Giving, Imagine

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “Behold, Here's Poison”, p.291, Random House

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• If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

  Eddie Vedder

  Dream, Sleep, Can't Sleep

  FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from Jun 17, 2014

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• When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.

  Cathie Linz

  Sleep, Insomnia, Buckles

  Cathie Linz (2006). “Bad Girls Don't”, p.192, Penguin

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• "Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.

  Patricia Briggs

  Sleep, Men, Mercy

  "Blood Bound". Book by Patricia Briggs, January 30, 2007.

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• Can’t sleep ‘cause all the dirt make my heart hurt

  Tupac Shakur

  Hurt, Heart, Sleep

  Song: On My Block, Album: Better Dayz

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• Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Children, Sleep

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Work, Sleep, Thinking

  Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.215, Grove Press

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• The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

  J. H. Oldham

  Children, Sleep, Kissing

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• You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sleep, Thinking, People

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “Greatest Works of Anton Chekhov: Plays, Short Stories, Novel and A Biography (Including The Steppe, Ward No. 6, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, On Trial, The Darling, The Bet, Vanka, After the Theatre and many more)”, p.575, e-artnow

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• Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

  Margaret Cho

  Regret, Congratulations, Sleep

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