Famous Quotes & Sayings

Until a couple years ago, the FCC was sort of asleep at the wheel when it comes to indecency enforcement, ... We helped jump-start the FCC and get them to look at this issue seriously.

Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

What this does, at the very least, is raise the question of competence. Did someone fall asleep at the switch?

Kate Forsyth

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

Shilpa Shetty

I believe I am blessed with the ability to fall asleep just about anytime, anywhere. I can sleep on a flight, on a couch, and even on a bus.

We're not consistently putting people asleep when we need to.

Sue Monk Kidd

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

Nathaniel Hawthorne

She and her husband fell asleep with hands tenderly clasped, and awoke, from visions of unearthly radiance, to meet the more blessed light of one another's eyes.

Ralph Nader

Sixty-four percent of people polled want a four-way debate. People like debate. They like competition. They like not to fall asleep in front of the TV set, watching the drab debate the dreary.

She may have fallen asleep on the bus. When she woke up, she made herself known to someone there.

She loved to go but by the end of the first quarter, she was always asleep in her wagon.

When you can't fall asleep at night or you keep waking up in the middle of the night, you have a low appetite, or increased crying for no reason, then you're showing signs that stress is getting out of control and it's to the point you need to reduce the stress in your life.

Last year we did about everything but fall asleep in the water. This year we showed up.

Bikram Choudhury

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.

Fergus Henderson

A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.

Ezekiel Emanuel

On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that a man's work was important, that he must pursue it tirelessly, and that it might require certain sacrifices, like being away from the warmth and comfort of home.

Charlie Rose

Nighttime, in a nanosecond, asleep by 10:30. No chance I'll get through the day without two naps. Before noon, around 11 A.M. I catch 30 minutes. Living not far from CBS is perfect because afternoons I go home for another.

Henry Reed

What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening.

We were a little asleep in the first 15 minutes. They scored twice before we really got rolling.

NHTSA didn't do its job in responding to information that they had. They fell down on the job, they were asleep at the wheel and they needed to be reminded and this is the wake-up call of all wake-up calls.

Only the Guru is awake, the rest of the world is asleep in emotional attachment and desire.

Jim Capaldi

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

One night I walked home very late and fell asleep in somebody's satellite dish. My dreams were showing up on TV's all over the world.

KaDee Strickland

Oh God, I'm going to get in trouble for saying this, but I grew up falling asleep in church because I was tired from watching horror movies late at night.

Because of the late hour, we think he might have fallen asleep at the wheel.

More people are doing away with home phones. If you're at home at night and you're asleep and we have a hazardous material incident, how will I know where to locate you?

Brad Goreski

I fall asleep on the couch in front of the TV. It's very rare that I see the end of any show.

I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day 'cause that means it's gonna be up all night.

I fell asleep in the second quarter. Fortunately, I caught some highlights later. It didn't look like Michigan wanted to be there.

I fell asleep a couple times (in the film room). I just looked at the screen because the coaches said to. But by midseason, (guard Jamie Carey) talked to me, and I took interest.

Pascal Lamy

I am half asleep but the negotiations are wide awake.

Magic Johnson

I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.