Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cheyenne Jackson

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

Cesar Romero

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

Charles Kuralt

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

Antonio Tabucchi

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Chris Frantz

It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.

Barbara Kingsolver

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

Elizabeth Bishop

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

Alain de Botton

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

Chuck Palahniuk

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Caleb Colton

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

Charles Spurgeon

Suffering saints are living seed.

Charles Spurgeon

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Alan Watts

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

Alan Watts

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

Chin-Ning Chu

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

Eula Biss

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.

Melanie Payne

This program has been a tremendous help. Dylan has to have his bedtime story every night and it usually ends up being five or six bedtime stories. This has really helped him develop intellectually.

Dom DeLuise

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

Elton John

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

Paul Auster

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

Adam Goldstein

Though we think bedtime is the last thing on anyone's mind while on a Royal Caribbean cruise, we do realize that sleeping well is essential to our guest's vacation experience.

Warren Farrell

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

Carl Honore

The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

Joe Paterno

I was thinking 'When are we going to get this thing over. I looked at my watch at one point and it was three hours past my bedtime and we were still playing.