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Death's brother, Sleep.

Virgil

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson

If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon.

Irish Proverb

And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Martin Luther King Jr.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

And the sea will grant each man new hope . . . his sleep brings dreams of home.

Christopher Columbus

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Rene Descartes

Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.

Edgar Allan Poe

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

William Shakespeare

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. TalkIng too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.... The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

Meg Greenfield

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway

. . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil.

Dale Carnegie

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

Dale Carnegie

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Sir Francis Bacon

Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise.

Chinese Proverb

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.

Tupac Shakur

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

Woody Allen

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.

Robert Browning

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'no'.

Woody Allen

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Saint Jerome

It was turnovers, unforced turnovers. Bellville just kind of hung around. And when they hung around, you could see their confidence grow. We went to sleep on a couple of put-backs.

Steve Brooks

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.

Sir Philip Sidney

Even though you're paying more money, I think you'll sleep a lot better knowing you won't have to pick up the garbage the next morning.

Terry Feinberg

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Evelyn Waugh

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

Marge Piercy

Hoteliers love it. When there are few rooms available, no one has to sleep in a smoking room. And you don't have to worry about burn holes in the carpet.

Sean Hennessey

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell

What?! I'm not sleeping with a hologram!

Mary Mcdonnell

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

Because of the difficulties I am encountering in my movements to the detention center, the Americans offered me a place to sleep. I turned down the offer to be in a camp that is set up in country ... they are occupying.

Badia Aref

Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

Dame Rose Macaulay

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

William G. Golding

Our study, like others before it, does raise concerns about the performance of sleep deprived physicians-in-training and suggests that strategies aimed at reducing fatigue-related impairments are likely necessary.

J. Todd Arnedt

All the seats, all the couches, full of sleeping bodies – even the floors.

Paul Kelly

Sleeping is like eating. It is performing a biological function that is required.

Stephen Sheldon

It is becoming hard to sleep at night due to mosquito bites. Even the mosquito nets or coils can stop them. The inactive role of the DCC makes it look like they are actually safeguarding the mosquito population.

Salim Ahmed

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

Vladimir Horowitz

We think it may have been food poisoning. I may have gotten an hour of sleep. I threw up and then I lay down and it seemed like the alarm went off as soon as I did. I felt awful. My dad told me I had to tough it out.

Bart Eddins

Studies have shown that you need seven to eight hours of sleep per night for maximum health.

Melanie Krauthoff

She's had a good night's sleep (and) some food (and) is rested. (She was) reunited with (her) mom this morning (and) they are planning to return to Austin. (It's a) story with a happy ending.

Jan Caldwell

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

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello

People were sleeping on tables, on counters, anywhere they could get comfortable.

Mark Drake

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

James Freeman Clarke

The conscious mind is driving all day, running through a whole bunch of errands. It needs to be rested and renewed at night. Even if you are not sleeping, you can let go of the conscious mind. You want to do things that give you that sense of letting go.

Sondra Kornblatt

People are a lot more aware that there is treatment for sleep disorders. They are also less willing to put up with sleep disorders.

Kathleen Mccann

I work, I sleep, I work around the house. I play with the kids, and I feed the animals.

Robert Lloyd

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

Stephen Laberge

The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the U.S. illegally] who has some kind of relationship with a Border Patrol agent. Either someone in their family is married to one, or they're sleeping with one. People's lives are very complicated and intertwined and they're not very clear-cut.

Jennifer Allen

I'm worried because they said I couldn't sleep in the same bed as my son. I feel like they feel I'm going to hurt him or molest him or something.

Carrie Crowell

[The shelter gave Brandon medicine and supplied the couple with three meals a day.] There was a big screen TV and lots of toys for the kids, ... and the elderly had cots to sleep on.

Nicole Davis

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Homer

I do everything you can do ... all the exercises for your shoulder to try to get it as strong as possible, to make it as stable as you can. For me, that's the only way I sleep at night, knowing I've done everything to prepare to try and prevent that.

Jaret Wright

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Avram Noam Chomsky

The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.

John Keble

I'm not even sleeping in here. It's less hard to take if you move out after they're already asleep. If you come back in when you wake up in the morning and have some time to be close, I think that really helps.

Carole Collins

These two sleeping giants of mass chocolate have woken up to the fact that chocolate is not about mass — it's about class. It's a luxury experience.

Pam Danziger

The sleeping giant is awake -- wide awake -- and we're paying close attention.

Jaime Contreras

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

Billy Boyd

I have traveled here from Vienna, Austria, to honor Dick Lugar because he is one of the finest men on the planet in my opinion. The importance of what Dick Lugar and Sam Nunn have done together is enormous. We all don't realize how they've helped us be able to sleep well at night. Had they not done what they did, this would be a different world than what we're living in.

David Waller

I drink at least five bottles of water a day and always get eight hours of sleep.

Rebecca Gayheart

The women welcomed the Jamaican women into their apartments while the Bajan men found places for the Jamaican men to sleep in their rooms. We had to look out for each other.

Mark Adams

Now, with Jimmy Drew being a little more experienced, they should be able to throw the ball a little bit. Instead of run, run, run, what they'll do is try and lull you to sleep and bang, hit you with play action. We just have to be ready for that and mature enough to recognize it when it comes.

Chad Spence

It looked like no body was really talking. No body was giving each other eye contact, which is really important. Eye contact and communication is really important when you are out on the court. It just really was not there. We were playing as if we were sleeping all day and had just woken up.

Victoria Prince

The issue with technology is, it's -- by definition -- change. You can't just go to sleep and say I'm going to forget it for 20 years.

Marshall Acuff

It's hard. Right after practice, I go home and do my homework and go to sleep.

Joe Conti

He had been sleeping the whole time and was totally disoriented.

Dave Adams

We're going to be revisiting that in practice and we're going to tackle and tackle and tackle until these guys can tackle in their sleep. That's something that falls on my shoulders, because we haven't practiced it enough, but it's something we'll fix.

Brock Berryhill

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

Baltasar Gracian

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.

Sarah Hughes

It was a sloppy game. We got a little bit too tentative. They kind of put us to sleep a little bit with their zone. We were expecting more man from them because that's usually what they do.

Jared Phay

I sleep with a football. I have to have the football with me. It's part of my love for the job. I usually sleep with it next to my hip.

Michael Washington

I couldn't sleep at night knowing what might happen to it.

Scott Nelson

The emotional effects have been great. I've had a lot of trouble sleeping.

Shannon Williams

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

Joan Klempner

Supposedly, Edison got by on a few hours of sleep. You hear about CEOs of companies boasting about how little sleep they get.

Paul Glovinsky

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.

Pat Nixon

There's nothing like a good night's sleep to get you energized. If you know anybody who has any issues with sleeping, these are the people to see.

Christopher Lynch

Some women have been told to find an abandoned car to sleep in.

Cynthia Jackson

You better believe it. This has been going on for four years. You end up losing a lot of sleep over it.

Bob Vila

For the last two-and-a-half years we have made every effort to provide 24/7 service, but we have leaned that we are not as young as we used to be and the lack of sleep is much more important than it used to be.

Katy Mckim

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Anthony Burgess

If a person has a major drive such as a need to sleep, they may focus on that one drive at the exclusion of others, such as getting more food.

Tony Wells

Grow Rich While You Sleep.

Ben Sweetland

I was lying in bed one night and couldn't sleep, and it just dawned on me there wasn't one in here. I think it should be here.

Chris Drury

The hour of sleep you lose is bad ... but I love the daytime in the evening.

Susan Morgan

The Sept. 11 period really was an aberration - hurricane Katrina has reawakened the sleeping giant, and I believe we'll now see a return to the Watergate era of hard-hitting reporting in the United States.

Paul Levinson

No matter how good the schedule is, nothing replaces sleeping when your body clock actually wants you to sleep.

Dr. Meir Kryger

In most cases, we're talking about sleeping in an armchair for the night.

Harry Anderson

Sleep is prohibited, I told them. Once you fall asleep, you might never wake up again.

Li Yong

We were sleeping on air mattresses for a couple of days. But what the hey, ... At least we have a roof over our head.

Ray Burrows

I don't know what exactly it is - if it's sleeping in my own bed, having my husband around, being in my house or having family and friends out there cheering for you.

Stephanie Louden

The only thing that's been disrupted are sleep patterns around here. We've all been working 16 or 18 hours a day, and either you don't get enough sleep when you try, or you stay awake wondering what needs to be done next.

David Cameron

It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.

Darby Conley

The most important skill in staying calm is not to lose sleep over small issues. The second most important skill is to be able to view all issues as small issues.

Paul Wilson

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sleep. That is the biggest thing, when you are sitting in traffic for three hours coming there and back, that could be an extra three hours of sleep you could get. The fees also pay for the insurance, the mechanic, and the diesel.

Heath Kramer

It's probably being kicked around by more dominant lions. We get calls every day from rural areas, but it is definitely uncommon to see a lion sleeping in a yard in the suburbs.

Patrick Roy

I haven't slept enough yet. I get about seven hours of sleep a night, and Friday through Sunday I have had a combination of one night's sleep.

Sonny Briggance

You're always eating fast food and stuff, living in the hotels. You're not getting as probably as much sleep as you should. This home series is huge for us. Just getting a little home field advantage, getting our home fans here is going to be nice.

Brian Ernst

Children are creatures of habit and very much depend on a routine to feel secure and function well. Kids fall apart when you change their sleep schedule. They need at least 12 hours.

Bonnie Slade

The students also heard about some of the challenges and hard work that's necessary to complete medical school. One physician had a challenging time getting through medical school because he had sleeping problems. He reminded the students that even with difficulties they can persevere.

Denise Griffey

I wasn't here...I was working, if I was sleeping... I don't know...I would have probably gotten hurt or something like that.

Fabiola Rio

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Homer

We've been sleeping on the . . . ground like rats. I say burn this whole . . . city down.

Michael Levy

This brings us to the question was Jesus sleeping?

Craig Parker

The humidity is high. You have to change your shirt, you have to drink correct, eat correct, sleep correct, ... To stay here is wonderful, but you have to follow every step.

Francesca Schiavone

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

Arthur Miller

When we start getting athletes suspended based on what somebody said, you see what gate that opens up. This does not make sense, especially based on what somebody said and that somebody said she had a sleeping disorder from childhood, tested positive at the world championships, and then came back and said something (else).

Steve Riddick

When they were first digging things up, the diesel engines were running day and night and they had these bright lights - it was hard to sleep.

Bob Lane

It's like we're not parents yet, not till we get the twins home. They sleep, and I stare.

Sabrina Clark

San Diego was still seen as a sleep Navy town 25 years ago, and nobody in the live-music industry took it seriously.

Marc Geiger

I did pretty well in my morning matches. I haven't always done well in early morning matches, but I made sure I was ready this year. I got a good night's sleep both nights and warmed up hard.

Troy Dolan

The notes said they weren't suffering, they were just going to sleep.

Peggy Cohen

This has been the best project for them. They are really thinking about it. They think about it night and day. This project has really excited them. They don't sleep at night. How many kids go home and worry about their homework?

Roxanne Speer

Cooling the brain is sort of putting it down to sleep a little bit.

Camilo Gomez

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.

Mary Wilson Little

We wanted a place to cook, sleep, eat and work on one floor and it became apparent we couldn't do all that on an 18-foot-wide lot.

Joe Hale

Acupuncture helps with a lot of types of pain. People are more aware now that the pet does not have to suffer. One cat had skin problems, and they were going to put him to sleep. Acupuncture was a last resort and it really helped.

Lynhaar Rodriguez

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

Barbara Walters

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

Benjamin Britten

I didn't sleep for two days thinking about this game. Reed has too many good shooters.

Brian Voyles

We have by-law 461 that defines what a residence is. It defines a residence as a place where 95 percent of important family time takes place such as sleeping, where mail is received and where meals are prepared.

John Dickerson

He's the chief [Jack Nicholson], right? What else is there to say? It's not bad sleeping with Einstein.

Lara Flynn Boyle

Pam's comment to me was that she was sleeping with one eye open because she feared him. ... This was not the first time in the history of Jeff's mental illness that Pam feared him.

Renee Deberg

You read a letter like this and you get to sleep for a couple hours. It makes you feel good. That's the whole point. It makes you feel good.

Kevin Coates

One day last year I was praying, and just before I went to sleep I asked the Lord to let me know he was here, just give me some kind of sign. And then He touched my arm.

Geary Claxton

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted. In the American army it is ingeniously called 'rev-e-lee,' and to that pronunciation our countrymen have pledged their lives, their misfortunes and their sacred dishonor.

Ambrose Bierce

[A canopy over the entrance of the Biloxi Regional Medical Center was torn off by the wind.] We just laid down to try to get some sleep when the storm forces came through and it really ripped that canopy, ... You wouldn't believe the wind that came through here.

Susan Hood

There are girls that get obsessed with you. A lot of girls want to sleep with the (original) band members and are trying to live out a fantasy with you. That's the unfortunate side of this.

Shawn Fox

I?m glad that our neighborhood got together and helped, and I really thank the Steele Creek (Division) for jumping on top of this because now we can hopefully go to bed, sleep at night and have our cars intact in the morning.

Lisa Walker

Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.

Welsh Proverb

To get a good night's sleep, you have to understand there's a mind and body connection. Both the mind, as well as the body, need to relax.

Dr. Naresh Dewan

I think winning that game and everything else kind of sealed the deal. He felt very satisfied. I'm not saying that losing may have changed the outcome but he can sleep easy with a clear conscience now. He really feels good about going into the NFL.

Joe Koch

These people, live, eat, sleep and breathe this stuff every day.

James Bennett

Fatigue is dangerous when working with electricity; we need our crews to be sharp. We sent most of our people home early to get a good night's sleep. The hard work starts bright and early.

Ronnie Garner

My girlfriend sleeps in a queen-sized bed and I sleep in a court jester-sized bed.

Steven Wright

Ace (Burdette) has just been our sleeping giant all year. He may not run the 400 real well, but put him on the 30-yard line and he'll run anywhere.

Ben Okiwe

That's the good thing. My folks were down for three months up until playoffs started, so I can be thankful they weren't there and I wasn't there, sleeping at night. It could've been a lot worse.

Dan Boyle

I am not against sleep deprivation. I'm not against manipulating the environment.

Kelly Mccann

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

William Wycherley

It will be nice for our kids to sleep in their own bed and race on their own track. More than anything, it will be good for our kids to gain some experience and maybe improve on some things.

Kip Janvrin

This story begins where all great stories start, with loss. 'Hansel and Gretel' begins with the parents are gone, 'Cinderella' and 'Sleeping Beauty,' the mom is dead.

Marsha Norman

Deaf children in Kenya certainly need our support for food, medicine, clothes, and a decent place to sleep but what the need the most is our commitment to provide them with quality knowledge that can be our miracle to promote the gospel of a more inclusive society.

Jean claude Adzalla

No mother can sleep at night knowing that her son was murdered in the fashion that my uncle was murdered in. My grandparents live with this every day, for the last nine years. And this has brought closure to my family.

Tangee Overly

We have been living like cavemen, sleeping in cars, doing bodily functions outside. And meanwhile we're the victims, and we have families here.

John Owens

I am sure that he will score many goals for Newcastle and England at the World Cup. He knew that he was not going to play much and he had to leave. His transfer will be good for him. Newcastle are a great club, a sleeping giant who are going to wake up.

Jonathan Woodgate

One of the first and most important things for a critic to learn is how to sleep undetected in the theater.

William Archer

I couldn't sleep until I found them. I went everywhere looking.

Curtis Bolden

It's been pretty tough on him with it hanging over his head. On Monday, I think, he had something like 26 interviews to do. But now with the book launch over he's been able to relax a bit. He had a good sleep last night and went flying yesterday (Wednesday). He's pretty focused now.

Wayne Graham

The first step to dealing with sleep deprivation is restructuring priorities to allow for adequate sleep.

Peter Johnsen

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

Mary Stewart

When you're homeless, you got to go to your storage locker, get your clothes for work, come back, sleep in the church, get ready for work, go to work and its hectic all day.

Celeste Kekoolani

I'm actually a big fan of the course across the street because I've played there more and have had some success. I'm glad that it's staying in town, though. I'm 10 minutes from my house, get to sleep at home and kind of do my own thing. There's probably a comfort level that allows me to play a little better.

Brett Wetterich

Adam laid himself down in Paradise to sleepWhile from him was taken a wife to keep.Adam poor father of creation's bestYour first taste of sleep was your last of rest.

Matthias Claudius

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Doctor Who

She has sleep apnea, and when you have sleep apnea, you don't get enough air into your lungs. It could cause heart damage.

Iris Chenault

I finished this match really tired. I have pain in all my body. I'll try to sleep well. Maybe tomorrow I won't play three sets.

Mariano Puerta

So right here last night we had 42 women sleeping on mats in the garage.

Margot Schrire

Now, children, go to sleep. I don't want you to worry when you hear the creaking on the stairs. The ghost promised he wouldn't show up tonight.

Mary Higgins Clark

I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream, you got your head in the clouds you're not at all what you seem.

Fiona Apple

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

The board's going to order you to get some sleep.

Troy Hodges

This is a frequent problem within marriages that nobody is paying attention to. Couples who struggle with sleep apnea have a high divorce rate. Can we save marriages by treating sleep apnea? It's a question we hope to answer.

Dr. Rosalind Cartwright

Fats just stayed at my apartment, rested, watched the news. I've had people sleeping on the floor, the couch, everywhere. It's been pretty crazy.

Jamarcus Russell

We have a short season and we play a lot of back-to-back games, which means you play one night, then go home, sleep, and have to fly out for an away game the next night. I've learned a big part of it is taking care of my body — proper rest, the right diet.

Shameka Christon

Any coach who has gone through some of what we've been through is not going to sleep. We fought (Wednesday), so I should be able to get some sleep.

Reggie Bellamy

We've been to five cities in seven days, and it was just too much for him. His sleep isn't where it needs to be, and the trip is having an impact on his off-season workout regimen.

Scott Shapiro

He has to sleep every night. He knew he was wrong.

Phyllis Miller

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days.

Todd Hamilton

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

W. H. Auden

Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.

Shane Osborn

Use them wisely, don't let them burn all the way down. Especially don't let them burn when you go to sleep. We use the saying the easiest fire to put out is the one you prevent.'

Toby Miller

It definitely changes your sleeping pattern a bit, but it's been a lot of fun.

Austin Kearns

He's a dedicated player and he'll get some important at-bats. The real key is pitching. If our pitchers can keep us in the game we will be competitive. You can't sleep on any team in the Red Division or the county for that matter. From top to bottom the county is very solid.

Vin Abene

They come in and sleep sometimes. Yesterday there were five sleeping right there, all men.

Antonio Hernandez

I was eighteen or nineteen years old, and I'd get these genius ideas for novels and try to finish then in three or four days without going to sleep.

Philip Levine

After I read the story I wanted him to come here. A room was even reserved for him and he is sleeping here tonight.

Kenny Mjila

Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?

Walter F. Mondale

You have mixed feelings when you hear a hurricane is coming because they keep telling you to leave and then nothing happens, ... Sometimes you hear the sirens, and you just roll over and go back to sleep. You get desensitized to it.

Brian Williamson

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

James Stephens

There was sleep deprivation and long negotiations. But in the end we made real progress.

Allan Rock

Weird offers since '90210?' Well, they keep offering me 'The Surreal Life.' But don't worry, I won't do it. If it's keeping you from sleeping, just don't fret that Brian Austin Green will be on 'The Surreal Life' anytime soon.

Brian Austin Green

I went to sleep with the news every night.

Michelle Williams

It's a double whammy. They're not getting enough sleep to recharge their brains, and we're asking their brains to be on duty at the wrong time.

Mary Carskadon

We slept in Central Park, which is no mean feat- we got there and it was almost dawn when we went to sleep.

Jonathan Richman

I'm not suggesting that everyone have a little nap everyday. But I am suggesting that if you do have a day where you had a bad night's sleep and you're just dog tired, it's probably best to just have a half an hour nap. Then for the rest of the day, you'll be able to deliver a higher productivity.

Peter Mills

He would spook every time I threw something at him. It was driving me nuts and I couldn't sleep, knowing he was there.

Greg Rubin

It's always nice when you can sleep in your own bed.

Justin Taylor

The military guys, they can just sit up and sleep. It's amazing.

Lyndell Lewis

It's a peace of mind thing so I can sleep.

Richard Wood

I compare it to sleeping on a soft mattress.

Bruce Fischer

It is time now for us to rise from sleep.

Saint Benedict