Henry Channon quotes

“There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.”
-- Henry Channon

#Sleep Quotes #Insomnia Quotes #House Quotes

“It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.”

“Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”

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

“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”

“There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.”

Source : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”

“His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.”

“May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, A. R. Waller (2014). “Poems”, p.88, Cambridge University Press

“I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.”

“I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.”

“The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.”