Sleep Quotes - Page 27

• There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats.

  Erin Moure

  Names, Sound, Speak

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• I can't wait to ride my electric scooter, walk my dog, watch TV, be bored … and I'm gonna put [my Oscar] in my hand and kiss it every night before I go to sleep.

  Quvenzhane Wallis

  Dog, Kissing, Night

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• I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

  Diane Cilento

  Thinking, Rage, Used

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• Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

  Campbell Scott

  Morning, Night, Thinking

  "PROCESS: Tom Gilroy and Campbell Scott on Acting, Directing and Details, Part I". Interview with Tom Gilroy, www.indiewire.com. December 19, 2001.

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• Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'

  George W. Bush

  Night, Thinking, Drs

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• A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

  Alexei Sayle

  Performing, Gags, Can Do

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• I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on things. I cannot see it in the air, or watch it fall. Sometimes Im home all day but I never see it sliding about looking for a place to rest when my back is turned. Does it wait til I go out? Or, does it happen in the night when I sleep? Dust is not fussy about the places it chooses, though it seems to prefer still objects. Sometimes, out of kindness, I let it lie for weeks. On some places it will lie forever. However, dust holds no grudges and once removed it will always return, in a friendly way.

  Ivor Cutler

  Kindness, Lying, Fall

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• My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a kind of fervor that is completely meaningless. This drawing is a call for meditation.... I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Baby, Insomnia, Drawing

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• I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

  Jenny Holzer

  Thinking, Night, Tea

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• [H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stories, Disease, Immigration

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• My wife assures me she didn't sleep with Tiger Woods, but how can I believe her?

  Tim Piper

  Believe, Wife, Funny Marriage

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• But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

  W. H. Davies

  Cat, Strange, Ifs

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• Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Stars, Wall, Night

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes: Stevenson's Vol. 5”, p.41, VM eBooks

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• When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

  Benjamin Rush

  Dream, Ideas, Imperfect

  Benjamin Rush (1839). “An Inquiry into the influence of Physical Causes upon the Moral Faculty. Delivered before a meeting of the American Philosophical Society, etc”, p.7

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• Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all desires. Suddenly you are in a state of desirelessness, non-ambition, unfathomable silence. And only in this silence, blossoms flower in your being. Only in this silence the lotuses open their petals.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Flower, Ambition

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• England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

  William Blake

  Sister, Wall, Jerusalem

  'Jerusalem' (1815) 'To the Christians' (plate 77) "England! awake!... "

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• There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shadow of every neighborhood. We own little corner stores, live in run-down apartments that get too little light, and walk the same streets day after day. We spend our afternoons gazing lazily out of windows. Somnambulists, all of us. Someone else said it better: we wake to sleep and sleep to wake.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Running, Morning, Light

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• You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything.

  John Barth

  Art, Philosophy, Literature

  John Barth (2012). “Final Fridays: Essays, Lectures, Tributes & Other Nonfiction, 1995-”, p.262, Counterpoint Press

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• There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Boredom, Heaven

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.480, Bantam

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• I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Thrill, Half

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• Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

  Elliott Smith

  Sunshine, Long, Dying

  Song: Twilight, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

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• On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.

  Lynn Johnston

  Dream, Morning, Lying

  Lynn Johnston (1994). “It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection”, p.6, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Bed, Hardship, Cold

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• Relaxing, going on vacation, sleeping, having fun when I want, golfing when I want, do whatever I want - I am going to enjoy it.

  Landon Donovan

  Fun, Vacation, Want

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