quotes about Naps
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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 -
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If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. Part of your quiet time is to get your heart clean and pure. Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God's holy presence to fellowship.
-- Adrian Rogers -
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 -
Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.
-- Amy WaldmanSource : "Paperback Q&A: Amy Waldman on The Submission". www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2012.
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There are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster,my friend-you either have a bath or a nap.
-- Andrew KaufmanSource : Andrew Kaufman (2013). “All My Friends Are Superheroes”, p.25, Coach House Books
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Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.
-- Andrew Weil -
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
-- Andy Rooney -
Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit around and chat until three. Then I hunt some more until sundown, bathe again, put on white tie and tails to keep up appearances, eat a huge dinner, smoke a cigar and sleep like a log until the sun comes up again to redden the eastern sky. This is living…. Could it be more perfect?
-- Annie Dillard -
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
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I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.
-- April Winchell -
My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.
-- Armie HammerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
-- Bob Hope -
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No day is so bad that it can not be fixed by a good nap.
-- Carrie Snow -
I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap.
-- Casper Van Dien -
Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
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All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
I love my bed. It is larger than a desk and better designed to hold books and papers. It is softer than a desk and better designed for naps. It is the center of all good things. And day or night, everyone knows where to find me.
-- Cathleen Schine -
...It had been a perfect nap -- the sort a man runs into now and again by chance...
-- Charles Finch -
Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.
-- Chico Resch -
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Have you slept yet?' 'Sure. I took a power nap on the way over.' 'Didn't you drive there?' 'Yeah. Other drviers kept waking me up. Car horns should be illegal.' - Charley & Cookie
-- Darynda Jones -
'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.
-- Debra Messing -
All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
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A power nap, is when you sleep on someone who's weaker than you
-- Demetri Martin -
And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. "Salutations!" said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. "Salu-what?" he cried. "Salutations!" repeated the voice. "What are they, and where are you?" screamed Wilbur. "Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?" "Salutations are greetings," said the voice. "When I say 'salutations,' it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.
-- E. B. White -
I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.
-- Edie Falco -
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
-- Edward Lucas -
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Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the bells. But on to more serious matters. Could you please rescue us? Prince Sameth's personal vessel is not quite what I'm used to, and he is eager to catch me a fish before my morning nap.
-- Garth Nix -
Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.
-- Gayle Forman -
Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind.
-- Gayle Forman -
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When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his placid mind, but to pay attention to the pace of things. Each has its own rhythm: the nap of a dog, the procession of the equinoxes, the dances of Lydia, the majestically slow beat of the drums at Dodona, the swift runners at Olympia.
-- Guy DavenportSource : Guy Davenport (2013). “The Guy Davenport Reader”, p.224, Counterpoint
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I shall be glad to see thee back, daughter, for I miss thee dreadfully. I wish I did not! I was taking a nap in my chair today, and I thought I heard thee rustling thy papers, and I looked over at thy table expecting to see thee, and alas! thee was not there, and it was dreadful.
-- Hannah Whitall Smith -
Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.
-- Harper Lee -
To me, video games aren't something as necessary as food or sleep, but they're just as important as delicious food, drinks, afternoon naps, walks, music, and sex (or masturbation). Not having them won't kill you, but without them, your life would be so boring you might as well be dead.
-- Hidetaka SuehiroSource : "Beer, Masturbation, And Twin Peaks: A Conversation With Swery65". Interview with Patrick Klepek, kotaku.com. May 1, 2015.
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I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.
-- Jacques Barzun -
Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
-- Jane Smiley -
Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job.
-- Jay Leno -
We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words.
-- Jean Parker -
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Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.
-- Jeff Kinney -
I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.
-- Jenny EclairSource : "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.
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I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, "Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising!
-- John Godfrey SaxeSource : John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.134
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But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.
-- Jonathan Tropper -
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Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.
-- Josh Duhamel -
Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy iMac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly would.
-- Julie Powell -
It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.
-- Katherine Applegate -
Sometimes, Manny is taking a nap, and you woke up the baby. There's not a better retaliation, something like that. Manny's one of the best at that.
-- Kevin Millar -
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Take a nap Making the mountain water Pound the rice.
-- Kobayashi Issa -
Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match...If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap, but if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
-- Larry Lucchino -
I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.
-- Lena Dunham -
My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.
-- Lizzie BordenSource : Lizzie Borden, Albert Mason, Caleb Blodgett, Justin Dewey, Massachusetts. Superior Court (Bristol County) (1937). “Trial of Lizzie Borden”
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After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!
-- Maria Semple -
I'm beginning to appreciate the value of naps. Naps are wonderful, aren't they? Sometimes now I have to take a nap to get ready for bed.
-- Marsha Warfield -
I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
-- Martha Stewart -
The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.
-- Mary Karr -
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I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark...
-- Mary Oliver -
As one who was never terribly enamored of Hillary Clinton's personality to start with, I grudgingly admit to enjoying her recent near-tears transformation. Plenty of critics concede her rarely seen emotion was heartfelt, but also that it was due to the 20-hour-day rigors of the campaign trail, making her perhaps the only candidate ever to win the New Hampshire primary because she needed a nap. Still, it was refreshing to watch her punch through the icy crust of her own phoniness, so that the molten core of artificiality could gush forth.
-- Matt LabashSource : "Making Political Trouble". www.weeklystandard.com. January 28, 2008.
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It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.
-- Maxwell Maltz -
Yeah, I cut class...I got a D. Cause History meant nothing to me Except a definite nap. That's why I always sat in the back.
-- Mike G -
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As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.
-- Misha Collins -
I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.
-- Mohnish Pabrai -
I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.
-- Pal Benko -
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You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.
-- Polly HorvathSource : Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.27, Schwartz & Wade
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I took a little celebrational nap.
-- Renata AdlerSource : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.14, New York Review of Books
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With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
-- Rick Riordan -
The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.
-- Robert Duvall -
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A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.
-- Ryan Seacrest -
There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap.
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach -
the more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach -
Oh, Rusty, why did you let her in?" Angela said. "We could have just lain down on the floor until she went away. We could've had a nice floor nap." "Have you guys eaten?" Kami asked. "I'm starving." "Cooking is so much trouble," Rusty said mournfully. "You could order in," Kami suggested. "Delivery people are so annoying," Angela responded.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan -
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They were standing in a very large room. The floorboards stretched in a pale expanse at their feet. There was so much dust on the floor that it had a pearly sheen. â€Even you could not nap on this floor,†Kami told Angela. â€I don’t know, a dust mattress might be very comfortable,†said Angela. â€Also possibly orthopedic.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan -
It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.
-- Sherman AustinSource : Interview with Merlin Chowkwanyun, www.counterpunch.org. August 14, 2003.
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I am a great believer in naps, whatever age you are.
-- Shirley Eaton -
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The most exciting thing either of us does is nap.
-- Suzanne Collins -
There is always time for a nap.
-- Suzy BeckerSource : Suzy Becker (1990). “All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat”, Workman Publishing Company
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I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.
-- Tom Hodgkinson -
Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.
-- Tom HodgkinsonSource : "Live lazy, live long - look at Britain's oldest man" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2012.
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When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.
-- Tom Hodgkinson -
Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve.
-- Tom Hodgkinson -
Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.
-- Tom Hodgkinson -
I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
-- Veronica Roth -
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
-- Vikram Seth -
I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.
-- Viswanathan Anand -
The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo , the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time ... For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer.
-- Willem de Kooning -
Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.
-- William Gibson -
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
-- Yogi Berra -
The hot, moist smell of babies fresh from naps.
-- Barbara AscherSource : Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, HarperCollins
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I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.
-- China Machado -
Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.
-- Gene PerretSource : Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways
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If higher summer temperatures become the norm in the future, people will adjust. Perhaps they'll take naps more frequently in the afternoon and convert their houses accordingly. The good thing is that all of these changes will not happen overnight, but in the space of decades. We still have enough time to react.
-- Hans von StorchSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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My mantra is always, "Take a nap first, Matt! Then think." It's silly, but it works.
-- Matthew Moy -
Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.
-- Brock Clarke -
Drink lots of water, and nap. I've made some really big messes along the way, whether on the academic side or on the media side. It hasn't been a straight path. But a lot of those mess-ups have led to opportunities, so I guess I'd say be fearless, and keep bottled water with you, so you don't dehydrate.
-- Melissa Harris-PerrySource : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
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