Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Agassi

When you're young, you can sleep in till 12,

Agnes Repplier

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

Charlotte Bronte

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --

Charles de Lint

The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important."- Jilly Coppercorn

Charles Dickens

The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.

Chester Bennington

I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.

Cheri Oteri

Chris [Kattan] and Will [Ferrell] and I all went out – I don’t want to say where, because it’s a famous restaurant and it’s Italian-owned and I don’t want any trouble. But I ended up throwing up all night from food poisoning. All the blood vessels in my eyes were broken, and the blood vessels in my face. I did not sleep. I walked into the audition and the makeup person said, ‘Oh my God, what happened to you?’ I looked like I was in a car accident.

Cherie Lunghi

I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

Charlotte Bronte

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

Charles Lamb

Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid

Charlaine Harris

Because he sounded so lost-the Eric I knew had never been one to do anything other than assume others should serve him-I patted around under the covers for his hand. When I found it, I slid my own over it. His palm was turned up to meet my palm, and his fingers clasped mine. And though I would not have thought it possible to go to sleep holding hands with a vampire, that's exactly what I did.

Charles Baudelaire

The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

Charles Manson

Each night as you sleep I destroy the world.

Charles M. Schulz

Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.

Billy Wilder

I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

Bill Maher

Tiger Woods apologized to the three women in America he never got around to sleeping with.

Beth Moore

God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage, and women are still coming to their senses a little too late. God alone performed that ceremony, and He alone can hold it together.

Edna O'Brien

I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

Brad Bird

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

Benjamin Franklin

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Benjamin Franklin

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead

Benjamin Franklin

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Ben Affleck

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Successful women don't sleep until noon.

Arthur Golden

I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining to me that his wife, whom he'd cared for deeply, wasn't really dead because the pleasure of their time together lived on inside him.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

Anton Chekhov

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

Anton Chekhov

You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.

Bellamy Young

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

bell hooks

Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?

bell hooks

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.