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Sleep Quotes
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
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"It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!"
55
"If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything."
53
"We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot."
51
"The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one."
49
"There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning."
46
"Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?"
46
"I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do."
45
"The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt."
45
"The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep."
44
"I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep."
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"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."
44
"When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane."
43
"Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis."
43
"I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights."
42
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
41
"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late."
39
"You can sleep with a blonde, you can sleep with a brunette, but you'll never get any sleep with a redhead!"
39
"So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!"
38
"If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep."
38
"Sleep like you can never be deadDream as if you have a soul inside your head."
37
"Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep, as long as you're happy with the way you are and the way you look, that's the most important thing. I think it's an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you're wearing, but not if that's the most important thing."
37
"Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me."
37
"We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book."
37
"I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it."
36
"It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep."
36
"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."
35
"Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast."
33
"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."
33
"I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'"
33
"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."
32
"I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking."
31
"Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.."
28
"Sleep!May be you will wake up tomorrow and find that things never changed, the apocalypse never happened, and everything's fine, normal, at home.Or may be you will wake up tomorrow and find that things have changed, for the better, the apocalypse is over and there's light, hope and a new home.Sleep, you crazy soul, just sleep."
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