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“I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.”

Thinking Years Night Water Sleep Middle Couple Bed Comfortable Happenings Doctors Intelligent Bubbles Middle Of The Night Sleeping In Intelligent Life

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.”

People Thinking Men Mind Mean Choices Girl Born Sleep Pressure Dirty Subconscious Hypocrite Naughty Bisexual Bisexuality Never Sleep Hypocrit Dirty Minds

Author:Megan Fox

“These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.”

Thinking Guy Bits Sleep Harder Wake Up Train Legs Exception Other Guys Athletics

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Looks Littles Long Important Sleep Crazy Comfortable Standards Important Things Who You Are Feel Good These Days Internals Going To Sleep

Author:Ashlee Simpson

“No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late.”

Thinking Knows Want Sleep Late Get Up Too Late Alarms

Author:David Spade

“You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.”

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“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

“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

“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

“It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.”

Thinking Writing Art Sleep Practice Drawing Visuals Visual Art

Author:Deanna Petherbridge

“I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.”

Thinking World May Stills Beautiful Sleep Land Awakening Glad Heavenly Emancipation Captivity

Author:Lyman Abbott

“Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts are free, one thing you do not think about: the whole. Beasts have a mind; respect it. Flowers too- look at one. Nature brought forth each petal. There is a mystery that sleeps in metal. Everything feels, and has power over you.”

Thinking Men Feels Mind Looks Soul Whole Sleep One Thing Mystery Flower Environmental Beast Over You Metals Petals Quiver

Author:Gerard De Nerval

“Beast Mode doesnt make excuses. It doesnt complain. Whatever youre doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.”

Ifs Thinking Men Done Form Games Sleep Figures Return Wake Up Excuse Complaining Beast Pushing Going To Sleep Get It Done Bad Games

Author:Matt Kemp

“Obviously it's very hard to leave a club that you've supported all your life. But the reason that I've come to Birmingham is that I think Steve Bruce is one of the best young managers in the country and that Birmingham as a club is a sleeping giant.”

Thinking Country Hard Reason Young Sleep Clubs Managers Giants Birmingham

Author:David Dunn

“This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.”

Thinking Mind Littles Soul Body Spirit Imagination Sleep Little Things Closed Mind

Book:Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

“I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food.. you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man.”

Thinking Knows Men Mind Children Night Sleep Childhood Where You Are Going To Sleep Where You Are Going

Author:Hank Snow

“I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea, known and favoured by a nightmare cult ready and eager to loose them upon the world whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air.”

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“There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your affections might be exciting in books, but in life it’s unbearably boring. I’ll tell you what’s exciting: sweaty, passionate nights. But sitting on the veranda outside the home of a sleeping woman who isn’t dreaming about you is slow moving and just plain sad.”

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.”

Thinking Heart Long Feelings Night Literature Sleep Grief My Heart Universal Wake Up Shock Waking All Night Assassination Indignation Righteous Indignation

Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.”

Thinking Sometimes Lying Sleep Love Is Serious Quiet Invention Deep Down Racks

Book:Septimus

Source: Septimus

“My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music themselves. Not only will they see that it's not that hard, but sometimes I think women just want to be the very thing they think they want to sleep with. Because if you're bright enough--no offense, Tawny Kitaen--sleeping with a musician probably won't be enough for you to feel good about yourself. Even if he writes you a song for your birthday. Don't you know that a musician who writes a song for you is like a baker you're dating making you a cake? Aim higher.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Feels Writing Sometimes Hard Enough Play Song Sleep Advice Higher Musician Dating Aim Instruments Feel Good About Yourself Cake Offense Bakers Aim High Want To Sleep

Author:Julie Klausner

“I think I'll sleep now.”

Thinking Sleep Last Words

Author:George Washington Carver

“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.... What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.”

Ifs Thinking Men Kind Would Be Humanity Sleep Century Highest Threat Raised Beast Prophet Jail Lions Irresistible Retribution Emblems Unarmed

Author:Boris Pasternak

“Here's what we know about Santa. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good. I think he's with the NSA.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Sleep Awake Santa Nsa

Author:David Letterman

“I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Night Hours Sleep Animal Party Successful Personality Pure Clean Eight Focused Honestly Organised Party Animal

Author:Jessie J

“The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.”

Thinking Made Said Sleep Weight Shame Blame Excuse Foul Daylight Naps Sunflower

Author:Abraham Cowley

“I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is that I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to, obviously, the individual. Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.”

“Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.”

Thinking Way Matter Sleep Baby No Matter What Folks Satisfied Ems Going To Sleep

Author:George Eliot

“Women are so often segregated to their sexuality, and how they appear. In fact, there's a lot of talk, even now, I think in most jobs this is true... people will say, when a woman rises to power, they ask, 'who did she sleep with?' You know, it couldn't possibly be about her acumen, it couldn't possibly be about her intelligence. It's got to be about her body, because that's how women get ahead.”

People Thinking Knows Facts Body Jobs Asks Sleep Sexuality Get Ahead Acumen True People Rise To Power

Author:Jennifer Beals

“In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless.”

Thinking Trying Moments Feelings Purpose Sleep Useless Lazy Apathy

Author:Dawna Markova

“Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.”

Source: Film as Art

“People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going on. I need to eat, I need to sleep, and sometimes those things weren't considered. It was like, "When do you think I'll have time to go to the bathroom?" That wasn't on the schedule.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Littles Self Sometimes Stars Sleep Assuming Pops Unhappy Schedules Bathroom Nobody Knows Ungrateful Pop Stars Self Absorbed Sulky

Author:Christina Aguilera

“To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining 'cause she doesn't want to go to sleep. They're at their most enchanting 'cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, "Please don't let this end."”

Thinking Want Ends Causes Sleep Serious Please Daughter Entertaining Going To Sleep Bedtime Our Daughter Your Daughter Enchanting Cabaret

Author:Bill Nighy

“I think that a lot of men, especially once they're married, feel like their girl is just who she is, so don't treat her too special. They shut her off, and having sex before you go to bed is like a sleeping pill. I always say, you're supposed to remember the reason you even asked that girl out.”

Thinking Men Feels Reason Remember Girl Sex Sleep Special Bed Married Treats Pills That Girl Having Sex Sleeping Pills

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.”

Thinking Wells Made Turns Waiting Sound Sleep Loneliness Cry Poet Clothes Bird This Life Ashamed Yellow Locks Steam Drawers Polaroids

Author:Conor Oberst

“I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it. I'd get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Loses Sleep Morning Goes On Stronger Tired Fallen

Author:Milton Resnick

“I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come.”

Thinking Knows World Littles Body America Night President Sleep Morning Growing Johnson Free World

Book:This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood

Source: This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood

“I think sleep is unrated.”

Author:Traci Lords

“Just as important as getting enough sleep is thinking about sleep in the right way. Stop thinking of sleep and naps as “downtime” or as a “waste of time.” Think of them as opportunities for memory consolidation and enhancing the brain circuits that help skill learning. Nor should you feel guilty about sleep. It's just as crucial a part of successful brain work as the actual task itself.”

Source: Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance

“I haven't slept properly for 12 years because of this bloody game. I don't think you do in a competitive game. You toss and turn and you don't sleep.”

Thinking Years Turns Games Sleep Havens Golf Bloody Toss

Author:Colin Montgomerie

“The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.”

Thinking Way Trying Children Ideas Kids Guy House Difficult Sleep Amount Wake Up Raises Wings West Raised Right Thing Going To Sleep Spoiled Being Spoiled

Author:Adam Sandler

“One night I couldn't sleep. It was like 2:00 in the morning. I was thinking, 'What can I do?' I'm watching TV. I'm like, 'Let me do something else.' I'm not going to fall asleep for a few hours. What are my hobbies? There was the masturbation option. I skipped that because just knowing my kids are down the hall I felt psychotic. So, I went with watching more TV. I couldn't come up with anything. I was going, 'God, read a book.' Then I was like this, 'Where do I keep the books?' I've got nothing to do but watch TV.”

Thinking Book Kids Night Fall Felt Hours Sleep Watches Morning Knowing Tvs Let Me Come Up Halls Hobbies One Night Masturbation Psychotic Watching Tv

Author:Adam Sandler

“I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me.”

Thinking Sleep Successful Wife My Friends My Family Girlfriend Deceitful Gutters

Author:Mike Tyson

“I absolutely love what I do. And I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I'm putting out there on the stage. But my goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT. Before I knew that there had never been a black woman, that was always my goal. I wanted to dance Odette-Odile and Kitri and "Don Quixote" and Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty." So that's still my goal. But knowing that it's never been done before, I think makes me fight even harder.”

Thinking Want Feels Long Stills I Can Done Wanted Fighting Goal Black Sleep Knowing Stage Harder Feel Good Dancer Principal Black Women Sleeping Beauty Aurora

Author:Misty Copeland

“I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the fruit of prayer 'without ceasing.' Likewise, true gardeners never cease to garden, not even in their sleep, because gardening is not just something they do. It is how they live.”

Thinking Prayer Sleep Activity Garden Fruit Cease Theology Gardening Theologian Gardener Godliness

Author:Vigen Guroian

“Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are thinking only of their god.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Stills Book Ends Form Sleep Forget Half Mystery Fronts Priests Improvisation

Book:Jazz Violin

Source: Jazz Violin

“I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream, it strengthens my creativity.”

Thinking Dream Film Sleep Creativity Music Love I Love Music

Author:Bahman Ghobadi

“One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.”

Thinking Knows Men May Different Feelings Dream Life Is Sleep Half Perception Awake Delusion Other Half One Half Dreamy

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Care Night Sleep Rich Dog Keys Riches Weary Restless God Knows Gift From God Rich Man Girdles Restless Nights

Book:The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation

Source: The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation

“If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Sleep Worry Food Particular Drink Doctors Agree Cooking Wine Culinary Dishes

Author:Michel de Montaigne