“Most people think coffee is what wakes you up in the morning. I believe it’s actually brushing your teeth with hand lotion instead of toothpaste.”
Source: Speaking Up for Each Other: A Collection of Short Stories for Tweens and Middle Grade Readers
“You want to stay here and sleep your life away? That's it?"
"If you knew what would make you happy, wouldn't you do it?" I asked her.
"See, you do want to be happy. Then why did you tell me that being happy is dumb?" she asked. "You said that to me more than once."
"Let me be dumb," I said, glugging the NyQuil. "You go be smart and tell me how great it is. I'll be here, hibernating."
Reva rolled her eyes.
"It's natural," I told her. "People used to hibernate all the time."
"People never hibernated. Where are you getting this?"
She could look really pathetic when she was outraged. She got up and stood there holding her stupid knockoff Kate Spade bag or whatever it was, her hair pulled back into a ponytail and crowned with a useless, plastic, tortoiseshell headband. She was always getting her hair blown out, her eyebrows waxed into thin, arched, parentheses, her fingernails painted various shades of pink and purple, as though all of this made her a wonderful person.
"It's not up for discussion, Reva. This is what I'm doing. If you can't accept it, then you don't have to.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I love this idea, that nature dreamed up the same kind of sleep in both humans and birds, fostering the growth of big brains in creatures so far apart on life’s tree.”
Source: The Genius of Birds
“Are you a lark, an owl or a hummingbird?
Lark, also called early chronotype, is someone who does usually wake up very early. They are most active during morning around 6:00 am. Approximately 10% of people are larks.
Owl, also called late chronotype, is someome who does usually wake up very late. They are most active in the evening around 6:00 pm. They usually drink a lot of coffee and accumulate a massive sleep debt as they go through life. Approximately 10% of people are owls.
The rest, around 80% of people, are hummingbirds. Some hummingbirds are more larkish, some more owlish and some are in between.”
Source: Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
“Is there something to the notion "Let me sleep on it."? Mountains of data says there is. For example, Mendeleyev - the creator of the Periodic Table of Elements - says that he came up with this idea in his sleep. Contemplating the nature of the universe while playing Solitaire one evening, he nodded off. When he awoke, he knew how all the atoms in the universe were organised, and he promptly created his famous table. Interestingly, he organised the atoms in repeating groups of seven, just the way you play Solitaire.”
Source: Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
“You wrapped your wings against my soul,
calmly cascaded tears into eternal waters,
where I sat in solitude, waiting ephemerally,
for those hours of lost comfort once again,
how long ago did sleep become such an end?”
Source: Under the Rose
“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”
“It is one thing to crawl into bed after a normal day, but it is another thing to crawl into bed after an adventure - that's the best kind of sleep, the still-excited, still-buzzing kind of sleep where dreams blur into reality and it's almost like the sleeping and waking worlds blur and become one.”
Source: Everything All at Once
“The games played into the night tires the brain into exquisite sleep which will be redeemed as energy for tomorrow's flight.”
“Sleep!” cried Father Brown. “Sleep. We have come to the end of the ways. Do you know what sleep is? Do you know that every man who sleeps believes in God? It is a sacrament; for it is an act of faith and it is a food. And we need a sacrament, if only a natural one. Something has fallen on us that falls very seldom on men; perhaps the worst thing that can fall on them.”
Source: The Innocence of Father Brown