Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.

Charles Dickens

The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.

Charles Dickens

He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'

Charles Dickens

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

Charles Stross

--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.

Charles Spurgeon

Easy roads make sleepy travellers.

Charles Spurgeon

The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.

Alan Watts

What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

Alan Watts

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

Catherynne M. Valente

Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.

Bobby Jones

I got an extra hour's nap.

Augusten Burroughs

Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

Adam Carolla

Figure out what to do, then take a nap.

Aaron Levie

I don't use many apps. I use naps.

Cleo Moore

I like to take afternoon naps in the nude.

Dan Farmer

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

David Boies

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

Louis C. K.

Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.

Miley Cyrus

There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.

Branford Marsalis

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

Dan Harmon

When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.

Donald Trump

Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once.

Malcolm Gladwell

Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all,

Joan Jett

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

Ezra Koenig

Making every record is a process full of tough times.

Jeff Bridges

If you're married you'll have tough times.

Frances O'Grady

There are lots of small businesses in Britain that have a pretty tough time but many of them are also parts of supply chains, the leave side roll out JCB but that's one company, all the experts are saying the economy would take a big hit if we came out of the EU.