Sleeping In Quotes - Page 3

• There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

  Alan Paton

  Home, Sleep, Past

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• I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

  Nick Cannon

  Sleep, Years, Car

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• Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

  James M. Barrie

  Stars, Silly, Sleep

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you really want me to be safe, maybe it's time." "I'd just feel safer if you'd start sleeping in a coffin." Just then my door creaked open. Billy's expression turned to surprise. "Get out!" I said, hopping off the bed. "Uh...we are making up lyrics to a song." But that didn't keep Billy out. Instead he was totally interested. "You're writing a song? That's so cool. I want to hear it." "It goes, 'Safer in a coffin, and if your brother doesn't leave, he'll be in one too.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Song, Brother, Sleep

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• I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Dream, Sweet

  Jack Kerouac (1972). “Visions of Cody”, London : André Deutsch

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• Guess the honeymoon is over!" Denise muttered once we are outside. "Next I suppose I'll be sleeping in the wet spot.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sleep, Next, Honeymoon

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• And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms.

  Neal Shusterman

  Baby, Sleep, Thinking

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• My mom died when I was 22. My stepfather, who I loved like a father, pretty quickly got involved with another woman. Suddenly there was another woman sleeping in my mother's bed, and it was very difficult. Their relationship brought up my profound loss, and the truth was that my family would never be the same again.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mom, Mother, Father

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• While sleeping in a hammock, with the touch of a warm wind we remember why we are in love with the life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Life, Sleep

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• Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion.

  Heather Gudenkauf

  Sleep, Two, Eden

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• For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

  Carl Jung

  Sleep, Men, Alchemist

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Fordham (1970). “Psychology and alchemy”, Bollingen

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• It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas

  Marvin Hagler

  Funny, Work, Sleep

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• I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.

  Brian Chesky

  Home, Sleep, Ebay

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• Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

  Rose Macaulay

  Sleep, Choices, Bed

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

  Robert Breault

  Sleep, Mind, Bed

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• High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.

  Steve Aoki

  School, Sleep, College

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• The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.

  Anne Sexton

  Future, Sleep, Home

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.

  Frantz Fanon

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beautiful, Sleep, Typewriters

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• Of course I'm going to be labeled as a sex symbol. I made my bed, and I'm sleeping in it.

  Miranda Kerr

  Sex, Sleep, Bed

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• I really enjoy touring period! I had another band called Killing Machine, we went out on tour which was only fifteen shows & we went out in a really old motor home. That had to be the most fun. I didn't have to do radio at nine in the morning everyday. It was me & a bunch of friends. The singer was my tattoo artist. My girlfriend would fly in & we would sleep in a hammock above the bed the band were sleeping in [laughs]. I like that stuff that's really fun, I like the camping experience.

  Tracii Guns

  Tattoo, Girlfriend, Morning

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• I was like, "If I don't change my mind, if I don't change my heart, if I don't develop some skill, I'm always going to be sleeping in my car."

  Tony Robbins

  Heart, Sleep, Skills

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• There is a great volcano sleeping in every laziness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sleep, Volcanoes, Laziness

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• You spend all this time, as a child, coming up with these fantasy stories, and here I am, sleeping in a treehouse, in the middle of Canyon de Chelly, shooting a Western. That's a bit of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

  James Badge Dale

  Children, Sleep, Here I Am

  Source: collider.com

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• In truth, the cinema as a delivery system obviously has its days numbered. And that's not a bad thing. When you can buy any book in the world on your iPad, or off Amazon, you don't go the public library. The public library becomes about homeless gentlemen sleeping in chairs.

  William Monahan

  Book, Sleep, Ipads

  Source: collider.com

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