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“What is easily the most dangerous spot cats choose for sleeping? Beneath our feet-sprawled out in hallways or in doorways, tails predictably extended just to be stepped on.”

Sleep Feet Dangerous Cat Spots Tails Doorways Hallways

Author:Arnold Hano

“I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.”

People Humans Children Littles Eye Able Individual Church Sleep Baseball Drinking Bored Human Life Enjoyment Confined Fathom

Author:Criss Jami

“Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.”

Home Used Father Church Sleep Dad Adults My Dad Fathers Day Nursery

Author:Vance Havner

“Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!”

Humans Hard Wisdom Sleep Fool Sorrow Advantage Boat Streams Vessel Free Yourself

Book:The Way of the Bodhisattva

Source: The Way of the Bodhisattva

“Tonight, late, when I'm still not done with the day but must comply with sleep, I can whisper, "There was done a little good today. Today I changed myself and the world, just a little. And yes, I loved." Most days, that is enough.”

World Littles Stills I Can Done Enough Today Sleep Changed Late Tonight Good Day

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“One service to need heals an ancient wound.”

Needs Sleep Ancient Wounds Heal Need Sleep

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.”

Needs Night Hours Sleep Seven Eight Productive Lack Of Sleep

Author:Sandra Lee

“Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.”

Dream Sleep Wonderful Fields Research

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.”

Stills States Dream Seems Eye Sleep Happenings Reflection Awake Exception Our Dreams Disturbing

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!”

Children Two Night Sleep Morning Middle Mom Paint Get Up Middle Of The Night

Author:Julie Mehretu

“Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.”

Giving I Can Sleep Give Me Can't Sleep I Can't Sleep Brighton

Author:Paul McGann

“Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.”

Able Young Sports Sleep Drink Tennis Young Days

Author:Amelie Mauresmo

“It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.”

Way Doe Kids Turns Sleep Break Cry Baby Habit Training Method Harm Shade Purple Spoiled Being Spoiled Turning 40 Sleeping Baby

Book:My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children

Source: My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children

“My babies and I benefited greatly from our nightly bonding sessions and co-sleeping arrangements, and I'm glad I did it for as long as I did.”

Long Sleep Baby Glad Arrangements Session My Baby Bonding

Author:Denene Millner

“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”

Two Enough Motivation Sleep Liberty Mindset Graves Two Things Lazy Leisure Laziness Poor Richard Being Lazy

Book:The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin

“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”

Looks Death Heaven Sleep Morning Constitution Afterlife Reincarnation Rebirth After Death Good Morning Life After Death

Book:The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself

Source: The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

Source: Essays and Letters

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”

Sleep Liberty Fatigue Insomnia Pillow

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air”

Mind Sleep Air Planes Awake Power Of The Mind Never Sleep

Book:My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is t he New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto

Source: My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is t he New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto

“Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.”

Night Hours Sleep

Author:Andy Murray

“It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.”

Thinking Feels I Can Night Next Can Do Hours Sleep Five Tough Wake Up Wasting Time Going To Sleep

Author:Dave Grohl

“I do not sleep to dream but dream to change the world”

World Dream Sleep Changing The World

Book:Poems by Martin Carter

Source: Poems by Martin Carter

“When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn.”

Want Feels I Can Desire Sleep Morning Wake Up Hungry Going To Sleep Reborn

Author:Jean-Louis Barrault

“I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.”

Littles Used Next Sleep Radio Transistors

Author:Rod Stewart

“I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.”

People Matter Eye Sleep Taken Fingers Partners Burned Caves Damnation Hermits

Book:The Door Into Summer

Source: The Door Into Summer

“It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.”

Firsts Wells Shows Jobs Hours Sleep College I Realized

Author:Dick Cavett

“Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.”

Seems Reading Sleep Clear Wife Newspapers Right Place Sleeping With Someone

Book:Stepping Westward

Source: Stepping Westward

“I go to sleep at night, like, ’Am I gonna be alone forever?’”

Night Sleep Forever Going To Sleep

Author:Kevin Durant

“If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.”

Ifs Dream Hours Sleep Half Gun Horrible Firing Helicopters

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

“Once in the dream of a night I stood Lone in the light of a magical wood, Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang; And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang, And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed, And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed In that magical wood in the land of sleep.”

Soul Dream Light Spirit Night Stars Sleep Vision Land Bird Woods Streams Lone Poppies

Book:The Golden Threshold

Source: The Golden Threshold

“Stupid religion makes stupid beliefs, stupid leaders make stupid rules, stupid environment makes stupid health, stupid companions makes stupid behaviour, stupid movies makes stupid acts, stupid food makes stupid skin, stupid bed makes stupid sleep, stupid ideas makes stupid decisions, stupid clothes makes stupid appearance. Lets get rid of stupidity from our stupid short lives.”

Ideas Belief Sleep Decision Leader Environment Stupid Bed Clothes Skins Appearance Stupidity Companion Behaviour Short Life Stupid Ideas Stupid Decision Stupid Movie

Author:Michael Bassey

“I die in sleep, and sleep is death and death is unknown, and unknown is God.”

Dies Sleep

Author:Michael Bassey

“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.”

Thinking Stories Dream Remember Mother Song Dies Born Sleep Growing Broken Bed Shadow Roots Healed Old Song Sleep And Dream Broken Images

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.”

Stories Dream Night Sleep Brain All Night Telling Stories Up All Night

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.”

Ifs I Can Night Sleep One Thing Accomplish Going To Sleep

Author:Marilyn Manson

“It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.”

Home Sleep Space Easier Floats Back Home Cabins

Author:Kevin A. Ford

“I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.”

People Needs Night Guy Stuff Hours Sleep Morning Minutes Office Europe Online Afternoon Midnight Naps Need Sleep Afternoon Naps

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“I waited just to see you at that kind of peace, I wanted to be beside you, I wanted you to wake up slowly or startle, or just half awaken and turn over or murmur my name. I wanted to watch you forever, or sleep beside you forever, or sleep forever while you woke and watched me, something forever anyway. I wanted to kiss you, rumple your hair, rest three fingertips on your hip bone warm and smooth, wake you that way or hush you back to sleep.”

Way Kind Wanted Turns Three Names Sleep Half Watches Forever Hair Kissing Wake Up Warm Bones Hips Smooth Fingertips Hush Beside You Wakes You

Author:Daniel Handler

“You were a terrible baby, do you know that? Bawling all the time, never sleeping. And one night you just wouldn't shut up, screaming like a dying pig. I walked over to your crib, I looked down at you. I wanted to strangle you. And you looked up at me and you stopped screaming. You smiled at me. Don't die so far from the sea.”

Knows Wanted Night Dies Sleep Sea Dying Baby Terrible Do You Know Pigs Shut Up One Night Never Sleep

Author:Yara

“Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”

Sleep Awake Going To Sleep

Book:From exile, and after the fall of the Empire

Source: From exile, and after the fall of the Empire

“I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.”

Ifs Hours Sleep Bed Ten Nine Get Up

Author:Philip Johnson

“Sleeping is very underrated.”

Sleep Underrated

Author:Suzy Becker

“There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.”

Giving Hard Games Winning Sleep Careers Cases Our Lives Sacrifice Hard Work Giving Up Notion Accomplish Stealing Zero Somewhere Else Zero Sum Game

Author:Maynard Webb

“Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.”

People Humans Sleep Human Nature Ought Bed Arise Sheep Legislature

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.”

Sleep Blessing Thee Afternoon Makest

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“I sleep 75 percent of all plane trips I take. I love red-eyes from West to East. I take Ambien to make sure I sleep. I always stay on West Coast time, and I'm always so fried when I come back, I usually sleep naturally.”

Eye Sleep Percent Red West East Planes Coast West Coast Ambien Red Eye

Author:Trent Dilfer

“Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Stills I Can Feelings Pain Mother Can Do Sleep Forget Levels Brain Empowerment Function Incredibles Scary Vocabulary Being A Mother Grumpy

Author:Anna Friel

“I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm filled with music, As choirs of summer birds, I cannot sing the old songs-- I do not know the words.”

Knows Wells Song Sleep Summer Bird Filled Familiar Tunes Compelling Cradle Choir Old Song

Author:Robert Jones Burdette

“If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?”

Ifs Doe Play Sleep Particular Genius Musician Orchestra Symphony Chestnuts Symphony Orchestras

Author:Robert Fripp

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