Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

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

Pascal Lamy

I am half asleep but the negotiations are wide awake.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Richard Alley

We haven't been sleeping on the rights, or asleep at the wheel, in this case.

Jeremy Foley

We celebrated a lot of big victories there. After the national championship, we didn't come back until the next day but we still went there to celebrate. Dean had a tape of the game but everyone was so tired we all fell asleep at halftime.

We're really starting to see Microsoft gear up. Of course, the company was asleep at the wheel for a long time.

We gave up an awful goal from my standpoint. We fell asleep three minutes in, and now you've got 87 minutes left to try to get back into it. We did everything we could to do that, but it just didn't fall for us.

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

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.

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.

Goran Ivanisevic

If she only wakes up five times in a night, it's like I've won the lottery. I'm awake at night and asleep during the day. I haven't found a way to keep her asleep. I tried yelling, but if I yell it gets even worse, she starts to cry and scream even more

I only remember that I was asleep and when I woke up, the van was already turning over. When the van stopped, I was thrown into the grass. I turned my head, and saw that other people had been thrown out. I couldn't see whether they were OK. I couldn't move. I couldn't sit up. I couldn't walk. All I could do was wait for help to come. It seemed like forever because of the pain.

Robert Bridges

When men were all asleep the snow came flying, / In large white flakes falling on the city brown, / Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, / Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.

Ibrahim Ali

The government is asleep -- there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions,

Bo was asleep when we got there, but his wife had (Bud Light) and crackers ready for us. There weren't a lot of what people would consider to be wholesome meals during the search.

Joe Theismann

Believe me, those 20-some minutes make a difference. It's the difference between you falling asleep in the fourth quarter or being awake for the end of the game.

Those with four or more electronic devices in their bedroom were twice as likely to fall asleep in school.

Jacques Villeneuve

Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it's a video game, and it's not. It is very, very dangerous, and it's tough.

Patrice Brisebois

As usual, we start great. We had a great start and we take the lead. After that, I don't know; we're falling asleep and not playing well. We're undisciplined and they take the momentum.

It's not negligence. It's just kind of being asleep at the wheel when business is running smoothly, and then you get hit.

For example, people with heart failure develop a breathing pattern where they stop breathing (at different times) throughout the entire night. That actually wakes them up repetitively and so people with heart failure will have trouble falling asleep and they'll wake up sometimes very short of breath.

Mal Peet

It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.