Sleep Quotes - Page 18

• I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

  Bell Hooks

  Seductive, Trying, Quality

  "bell hooks talks to John Perry Barlow". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. September 1, 1995.

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• Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

  Wallace Shawn

  Insomnia, Bedtime, Poor

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• We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

  Dave Allen

  Running, Giving, Age

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• Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

  Robert Crippen

  Dirty, Camping, Attention

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• Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.

  Bernadette Peters

  Girlfriend, Boards, Plenty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

  Francisco Goya

  Crazy, Mad, Monsters

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• Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither

  Mike Murdock

  Encouragement, Cat, Stories

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• When on a summer's morn I wake,
  And open my two eyes,
  Out to the clear, born-singing rills
  My bird-like spirit flies.
  
  To hear the Blackbird, Cuckoo, Thrush,
  Or any bird in song;
  And common leaves that hum all day
  Without a throat or tongue.
  
  And when Time strikes the hour for sleep,
  Back in my room alone,
  My heart has many a sweet bird's song -
  And one that's all my own.

  W. H. Davies

  Summer, Song, Sweet

  William Henry Davies, “When On A Summer's Morn”

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• As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
  Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
  Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
  Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
  Or stand under the trees in the woods,
  Or talk by day with any one I love,
  Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
  Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon...
  Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
  Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
  Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...
  What stranger miracles are there?

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Beach, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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• Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Rivers, Air

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.241

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• My wife and I both made a list of 5 people we could sleep with...she read hers out and there were no surprises...1 George Clooney...2 Brad Pitt etc...I thought 'Ive got the better deal here'...1 Your sister

  Michael McIntyre

  Witty, People, Wife

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• I know how sad it is when you won't be able to realize your dream.
  But do you know what's great about dreams?
  You can always have a different dream. Just like the way
  you dream every night in your sleep, you can just dream another dream.
  You're not throwing your dream away, but having a different dream.

  Kim Du-han

  Love, Dream, Drama

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• A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin.

  Fred Schwab

  Cat, Pet, Fats

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• Cats sleep fat and walk thin.

  Rosalie Moore

  Cat, Fats, Walks

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• I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Heart, Animal, Two

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• And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as being prior to it or more excellent... So that from this we may perceive the causes not only of life in general... but also of longer or shorter life, of sleeping and waking, of skill, of strength and so forth.

  William Harvey

  Life, Science, Blood

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• How peacefully he sleep!
  Yet may his ever-questing spirit, freed at length
  from all the frettings of this little world,
  Wander at will among the uncharted stars.
  Fairfield his name. Perchance celestial fields
  disclosing long sought secrets of the past
  Spread 'neath his enraptured gaze
  And beasts and men that to his earthly sight
  were merely bits of stone shall live again to
  gladden those eager eyes.
  o let us picture him-enthusiast-scientist-friend-
  Seeker of truth and light through all eternity!

  Charles R. Knight

  Life, Stars, Eye

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• If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.

  George D. Prentice

  Angel, Waking, Hours

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• Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.

  Cherie Currie

  Fun, Addiction, Drug

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• Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.

  Charlie Haas

  Mother, Daughter, Home

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• Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.

  Angela Merici

  Devil, Way, Ruins

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• We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Spiritual, Should Have, Lasts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Clyde E. Fant (1975). “Bonhoeffer: worldly preaching”

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• Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

  Melanie Laurent

  Girl, Beach, Morning

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• In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams- they are the world in which he lives

  Bettina Skrzypczak

  Dream, Children, Inspiration

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• I may be a sleeping politician. But one should know that a sleeping politician is always awake about national politics. I am not like politicians who sleep on national issues though they may be awake physically.

  H. D. Deve Gowda

  Powerful, Issues, Political

  "Gowda Upset Over Seeing His Sleeping Photo". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. July 27, 2003.

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