Quotes and Sayings About Sleep
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But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.
-- A. A. Milne -
Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
-- A. E. Housman -
Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
-- A. E. Housman -
When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.
-- A. E. HousmanSource : 'A Shropshire Lad' (1896) no. 4
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A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
-- A. J. Liebling -
It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
-- Aaron Levie -
Whatever you do today you've got to sleep with tonight.
-- Aaron Tippin -
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Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.
-- Abbi Glines -
Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.
-- Abdul Kalam -
On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very close, The weary Body, longing for repose, On the gained level of the day's ascent, Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.
-- Abraham ColesSource : 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
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
-- Abraham Cowley -
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 -
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 -
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 RyanSource : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
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I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.
-- Ace FrehleySource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 HoodSource : Source: www.djbooth.net
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Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?
-- Adam Carolla -
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 -
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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 LambertSource : Source: blogs.ssrc.org
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There are two kinds of men. There are men who are f**king misogynist pigs and then there are men who really love women, who think they’re the most amazing people in the world. And that’s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.
-- Adam Levine -
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 -
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 -
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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 SandlerSource : "Exit interview with legendary Red Wing Nicklas Lidstrom". Interview with Mitch Albom, www.mitchalbom.com. June 21, 2012.
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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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 -
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
-- Adrienne RichSource : Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" l. 26 (1963)