100+ Sleep Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.48

topic: Sleep, Eye, Night, Toiling

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

- Abraham Cowley

topic: Book, Sleep, Night

The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.

- Abraham Cowley

topic: Sleep, Thinking, Naps

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Passion, Sleep, Ideas

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?

- Abram Joseph Ryan

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

topic: Hero, Sleep, Blood

I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

- Ace Frehley

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Character, Sleep, Fantasy

I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'.

- Ace Hood

source: Source: www.djbooth.net

topic: Mean, Sleep, Progress

Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?

- Adam Carolla

topic: Sleep, Names, Creative

They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

- Adam Garcia

topic: Sleep, Thinking, Style

For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.

- Adam Lambert

source: Source: blogs.ssrc.org

topic: Drinking, Sleep, Exercise, Eating Healthy, Warming Up

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

- Adam Oates

topic: Mom, Sleep, Play

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

- Adam Sandler

topic: Mom, Mother, Sleep, West Side, West Side Story

The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.

- Adam Sandler

source: "Exit interview with legendary Red Wing Nicklas Lidstrom". Interview with Mitch Albom, www.mitchalbom.com. June 21, 2012.

topic: Children, Sleep, Kids, Being Spoiled

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

- Adam Sandler

topic: Sleep, Gay, People

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self

- Adi Shankara

topic: Dream, Sleep, Self, States Of Consciousness, Deep Sleep

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Sleep, Historical, Precision

I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful

- Adriana Trigiani

topic: Regret, Sleep, Knowing

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

- Adrienne Rich

source: Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" l. 26 (1963)

topic: Sleep, Thinking, Monsters

Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Sleep, Midnight, Enough, Rotating

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.

- Agnes de Mille

topic: Fear, Sleep, Night

My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

- Ahmet Zappa

source: "Interview: Ahmet Zappa" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

topic: Father, Sleep, Night

Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone...

- Ai Yazawa

topic: Sleep, Men, Shadow, Street Corners, Cologne

The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is - before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful - do whatever makes you feel confident. If it's putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.

- Aimee Mullins

topic: Beautiful, Sleep, Kissing, Rocking Out, Feeling Beautiful

Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

topic: Tired, Sleep, Night

Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath, we can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.

- Ajahn Chah

topic: Sleep, Practice, Breathing

Dreams are those that don't let you sleep at night,

- Akhil Kumar

topic: Dream, Sleep, Night

The Difference Between Dreams & Success Is, Dreams Need Effortless Sleep & Success Needs Sleepless Efforts

- Akon

topic: Dream, Sleep, Differences, Effortless

Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.

- Al Neuharth

source: Al Neuharth (1992). “Confessions of an S.O.B.”, Signet

topic: Inspirational, Tired, Sleep

Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Beautiful, Sleep, Thinking

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

- Alan Ayckbourn

source: Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.215, Grove Press

topic: Work, Sleep, Thinking

There is a school of thought that believes that sleep is for the night. You appear to be out to disprove them.

- Alan Ayckbourn

source: Alan Ayckbourn (2015). “The Crafty Art of Playmaking”, p.68, Macmillan

topic: Believe, Sleep, School, Can't Sleep

I only want to sleep . . . and never wake.

- Alan Grant

topic: Sleep, Want, Want To Sleep

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

- Alan Jay Lerner

topic: Monday, Sleep, Night, Monday Night

You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.

- Alan Moore

topic: Art, Writing, Sleep

There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

- Alan Paton

topic: Home, Sleep, Men, Cry The Beloved Country, Gathering Places

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

- Alan S. Kesselheim

topic: Stars, Sleep, People

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.

- Alan Watts

topic: Sleep, Acceptance, Two, Manure, Going To Sleep

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

- Alan Watts

topic: Inspiring, Sleep, Trying, Wake Up Now

I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.

- Alana Stewart

source: "Alana Stewart: Hollywood honchos 'hypocritical' when it comes to guns". Interview with Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2013.

topic: Sleep, Gun, Tables

Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

- Alastair Humphreys

topic: Country, Stars, Sleep, Sometimes All You Need

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

- Albert Camus

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, People, Lecturer, College Days

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

- Albert Camus

topic: Stars, Sleep, Night, Dripping

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

- Albert Camus

topic: Sleep, Men, Imagination

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.

- Albert Camus

topic: Summer, Sleep, May, Summer Evening

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.

- Albert Hofmann

topic: Sleep, Eye, Color

When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.

- Albert Payson Terhune

source: Albert Payson Terhune (2015). “Further Adventures of Lad”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Sleep, Night, Fifty, Cute Puppy

Who hath seen the Phantom Ship, Her lordly rise and lowly dip, Careering o'er the lonesome main, No port shall know her keel again... Ah, woe is in the awful sight, The sailor finds there eternal night, 'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep, And Ocean will the secret keep

- Albert Pinkham Ryder

source: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1918). “Loan exhibition of the works of Albert P. Ryder”

topic: Ocean, Sleep, Night, Keel

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Blessed, Sleep, Blessing

I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Sleep, Phrases, Enough

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Blessed, Sleep, Blessing

If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Sex, Sleep, Cat, Londoners

Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown

- Aleister Crowley

topic: Dream, Sleep, Blood, Impurity, Good Sense

Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.

- Alethea Kontis

topic: Dream, Sleep, Rocks, Adventuring, Beloved Family

People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

- Alexander Herzen

topic: Dream, Sleep, People, Optical Illusions, Artificial

See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Christian, Believe, Sleep

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Sleep, Race, Two, Swiftness

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Sleep, Giving, Painful, Pensive

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

- Alexander the Great

topic: Sex, Sleep, Army, Warlords, Ancient Greek

I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.

- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

topic: Sleep, Phones, Feet, Better Now

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Dream, Distance, Sleep

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

- Alexei Sayle

topic: Sleep, Performing

What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?

- Alexis de Tocqueville

topic: Eye, Sleep, Thinking, Languish

I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.

- Alfonso Cuaron

topic: Sleep, Noise, Way, Sleep Well

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

- Alfred de Musset

topic: Dream, Sleep, Love Is, Deep Sleep

Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.

- Alfred Thayer Mahan

topic: Sleep, Safe, Bed, Sea Power

I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

topic: Moving, Sleep, Wind

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

source: Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Psychology Press

topic: Sleep, Vision, Watches

Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal; Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

topic: Stars, Sleep, Night, Sound Of Water

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

topic: Sweet, Gratitude, Sleep

Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

topic: Sleep, Light, Heaven

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

source: Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Poems and Ballads”, p.84

topic: Death, Sleep, Stronger

Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.

- Ali Vincent

source: Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.67, Rodale

topic: Sleep, Work Out, Healthy, Enough Sleep

Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.

- Alice Cooper

topic: Stars, Reading, Sleep

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Dream, Butterfly, Sleep

There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs.

- Alice Meynell

topic: Running, Children, Sleep

She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.

- Alice Meynell

source: Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

topic: Sleep, Sheep, White, Steep

Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.

- Alice Weaver Flaherty

source: Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Dog, Writing, Sleep, Scalpels, Racers

I go to bed with a clear conscience. I sleep great. I know I did my best.

- Alistair Overeem

topic: Sleep, Ufc, Mma, Clear Conscience

We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'

- Allen West

topic: Military, Sleep, Night, Armed Forces, Armed Forces Day

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...

- Allison Pearson

topic: Tired, Sleep, Alternatives, Unendurable, Sitting Up

You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch." "That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane..." Even after the plane took off, they kept debating security perimeters and protocols. I'm pretty sure they argued for forty-five minutes about where the best place for cappuccino was near the Colosseum.

- Ally Carter

topic: Airplane, Sleep, Watches, Cappuccino, Abigail

She looked at him and shook her head, smiled a litle as she told him, "You are so like your father." Then she looked past me and Zach, past Bex and Abby, to where Agent Townsend sttod by the door with his arms crossed. "What do you think, Townsend, darling? Isn't he just like you?" She looked at Zach again. "I think he's just like you." And then she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

- Ally Carter

topic: Father, Sleep, Eye, Abby

And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the perfect moments last.

- Ally Carter

topic: Dream, Sleep, Perfect, Perfect Moments, Snooze Button

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.

- Alphonse Allais

topic: Coffee, Sleep, Beverages, Drank, Drinking Coffee

And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing upon the night's calm majesty; Wrapt up in quietness, with shade and silence, My soul more closely worshippeth Thy presence; With an internal day I feel enlighten'd, And hear a voice, which biddeth me to hope.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Lonely, Stars, Sleep, Musings, Quietness

But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Sleep, Bird, Months

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

- Alphonse Karr

topic: Sleep, Yesterday, Wife

If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.

- Alton Brown

topic: Sleep, Vegetables, Law, Childhood Obesity, Law Making

What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.

- Alvin R. Dyer

topic: Believe, Sleep, Discipline

But why didn't you just ask me?" I set down my fork and glare at her. "Because you were sleeping," She says, taking a sip if Chardonnay. "I was taking a nap, Mom. It wasn't intended to be some kind of Disney fairy-tale hundred-year snooze.

- Alyson Noel

topic: Mom, Sleep, Naps, Chardonnay

I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.

- Alyssa Milano

topic: Sleep, Earthquakes, Used

How did you even know I wasn't in my room?" "I checked on you." Finn gave me a look like I was an idiot. "I check on you every morning." "You check on me when I'm sleeping?" I gaped at him. "Every morning?" He nodded. "I didn't know that." "Why would you know that? You're sleeping," Finn pointed out.

- Amanda Hocking

topic: Morning, Sleep, Looks

I love to work. I know that sounds ridiculous to say because all people love to work, but I love the homework that goes into acting. I love figuring out different ways of playing a scene. I love the energy of being on set. I love not getting enough sleep because I have to wake up early in the morning.

- Amanda Schull

source: "Amanda Schull: Fate intervened with ‘Center Stage’". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. August 9, 2010.

topic: Morning, Sleep, People, Enough Sleep

It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.

- Amber Benson

source: "Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's". BBC Cult Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. December 10, 2003.

topic: Sleep, People, Matter

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Morning, Sleep, Insomnia, Going To Sleep, Funny Sleeping

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

- Amelia Barr

topic: Sleep, Events, Littles, Predestined

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

- Amelie Mauresmo

source: Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

topic: Sleep, Tennis, Able, Young Days

I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

- America Ferrera

source: "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.

topic: Grandma, Sleep, Acting

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Morning, Writing, Sleep, Scrutinize

Listen, ump. How can you sleep with the lights on?

- Amos Otis

topic: Sleep, Light, Umpires

My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their future. For the most part, I trust them to make the right choices for themselves. I always look forward to seeing them, and I love just watching them sleep. What a great relationship.

- Amy Chua

topic: Dog, Sleep, Choices, Make The Right Choice, Right Choices

As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.

- Amy Chua

topic: Sleep, People, Facts

Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.

- Amy Chua

topic: Sleep, Kids, Practice

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.

- Amy Grant

topic: Mother, Strong, Sleep, New Mother

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

- Amy Hempel

source: Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

topic: Sleep, Glasses, Water, Coastal

So many nights I cried myself to sleep. Now that you love me, I love myself. I never thought I would say this. I never thought there'd be you.

- Amy Lee

topic: Emo, Sleep, Night

Sleep is out... tired is the new black.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Tired, Sleep, Motherhood

Sleep can completely change your entire outlook on life. One good night's sleep can help you realize that you shouldn't break up with someone, or you are being too hard on your friend, or you actually will win the race or the game or get the job. Sleep helps you win at life.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Good Night, Jobs, Sleep

I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you, and I thank you.

- Amy Schumer

topic: Mother, Sleep, Weight

I can't wait to sit with these unbelievable broads and relive a time where sleep did not exist, where stress and coffee were mama's little helpers, and where we all dove into the deep end together to make something weird and very, very cool.

- Amy Sherman-Palladino

topic: Stress, Coffee, Sleep

I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.

- Anais Nin

topic: Sleep, Clouds, Feet

In my dreams I sleep with everybody.

- Anais Nin

topic: Dream, Sleep

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

topic: Peace, Sleep, Equality

In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling.

- Anatoly Berezovoy

topic: Sleep, Science, Space

I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.

- Andie MacDowell

topic: Sleep, Being Thankful, Forever

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.

- Andre Breton

topic: Wall, Sleep, Night, Glass Houses

I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.

- Andrea Arnold

topic: Christmas, Sleep, Kids, Endless Time

Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.

- Andrea Camilleri

source: Andrea Camilleri (2009). “August Heat”, p.11, Penguin

topic: Country, Mistake, Sleep

I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death.

- Andrei Tarkovsky

topic: Wise, Kings, Sleep, Sound Sleep

There was a brief moment of weightlesssness: a balancing point between air and earth, dirt and heaven. How strange, I thought, how like the moment between sleeping and falling when everything is beautifully surreal and nothing is corporeal. How like floating towards completion. But as often happens in that time between existing in the world and fading into dreams, this moment over the edge ended with the ruthless jerk back to awareness.

- Andrew Davidson

topic: Dream, Fall, Sleep, Brief Moments

I think that a lot of men, especially once they're married, feel like their girl is just who she is, so don't treat her too special. They shut her off, and having sex before you go to bed is like a sleeping pill. I always say, you're supposed to remember the reason you even asked that girl out.

- Andrew Dice Clay

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Girl, Sex, Sleep, Having Sex, Sleeping Pills

I do whatever I do. I go to the club. I work on material. While other people are sleeping, I'm awake. I always liked that. I like being able to drive when there's no traffic. It's almost like you own the street at night.

- Andrew Dice Clay

source: Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2008.

topic: Sleep, Night, People, Streets At Night

Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.

- Andrew Tudor

topic: Sleep, Psychosis, Mad, Homicidal, Mad Scientist

Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.

- Andrew Weil

topic: Sleep, Light, Mind, Simulate

I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day, and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind.

- Andrew Wiles

source: "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

topic: Morning, Sleep, Science

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

- Andrew Wiles

source: "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

topic: Morning, Sleep, Night

I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.

- Andy Gibb

topic: Sleep, Ice Cream, Two

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

- Andy Murray

topic: Sleep, Night, Hours

Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed

- Andy Partridge

topic: Sleep, Knowing, Lenses, Daily Bread

College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two.

- Andy Stern

topic: Fun, Sleep, College

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

- Andy Warhol

topic: War, Sleep, Thinking, Commercial Art

You can't always do that which you can do in your sleep. That doesn't fulfill an artist. You're looking for places where you can grow, in some way, whether it's a large way or a small way. I want to grow as an artist, as a person and as a woman. I want to enjoy myself and my life and the company that I'm keeping. I want to bring something to the table that's different than anything else would bring, but that has its place and value, and then keep moving.

- Angela Bassett

source: "Angela Bassett Talks American Horror Story: Freak Show, Filming in New Orleans, Her First Reaction to Finding Out Her Character, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 13, 2014.

topic: Moving, Sleep, Artist

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

- Angela Carter

topic: Sleep, Bed, Tables, Dinner Table

I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep.

- Angela Kinsey

topic: Sleep, Simple, Night

Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.

- Angela Merici

topic: Sleep, Devil, Way

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

- Ani DiFranco