Explore Quotes on Sleep

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

My wife and I both made a list of 5 people we could sleep with...she read hers out and there were no surprises...1 George Clooney...2 Brad Pitt etc...I thought 'Ive got the better deal here'...1 Your sister

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, _x000D__x000D_Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, _x000D__x000D_Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, _x000D__x000D_Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, _x000D__x000D_Or stand under the trees in the woods, _x000D__x000D_Or talk by day with any one I love, _x000D__x000D_Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love, _x000D__x000D_Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon... _x000D__x000D_Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, _x000D__x000D_Or of stars shining so quiet and bright, _x000D__x000D_Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring..._x000D__x000D_What stranger miracles are there?

When on a summer's morn I wake, _x000D__x000D_And open my two eyes, _x000D__x000D_Out to the clear, born-singing rills _x000D__x000D_My bird-like spirit flies._x000D__x000D__x000D_To hear the Blackbird, Cuckoo, Thrush, _x000D__x000D_Or any bird in song; _x000D__x000D_And common leaves that hum all day _x000D__x000D_Without a throat or tongue._x000D__x000D__x000D_And when Time strikes the hour for sleep, _x000D__x000D_Back in my room alone, _x000D__x000D_My heart has many a sweet bird's song - _x000D__x000D_And one that's all my own.

Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither

Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

I like dogs better [than people]. They give you unconditional love. They either lick your face or bite you, but you always know where they're coming from. With people, you never know which ones will bite. The difference between dogs and men is that you know where dogs sleep at night.

Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?