Best sleep & trying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.”

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself, nor try To make it, as the lucky fellow might A close monopoly by patent-right.”

Men Trying Firsts Said Might Sleep He Man Lucky Discovery Fellows Bless Monopoly God Bless Patents

Book:The Money-king: And Other Poems

Source: The Money-king: And Other Poems

“Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep.”

Ifs Trying Wells I Can Ends Waiting Sleep Bed Busy Get Back Busy Day

Author:Mae West

“I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.”

Feels Trying Years Two Kids Remember Used Sleep Week Bed Ten Endless Christmas Faster Two Weeks Going To Sleep Being A Kid Endless Time

Author:Andrea Arnold

“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

“The mind has so many pictures Why can't I sleep with my eyes open? The mind has so many memories Can you remember what it looks like when I cry? I'm trying, trying to tell you All that I can in a sweet and velvet tongue But no words ever could sell you Sell you on me after all that I have done.”

Trying Mind Looks I Can Done Eye Remember Memories Sleep Cry Sweet Sells Tongue Velvet

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.”

Trying Wells Children House Sleep Party Teach Groups Our Children Loud Your Children Campus

Author:Graham Nash

“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

“As I've gotten older, I can look at myself more clearly and own the things that I'm good at and work on the things that I'm not. Like, I am not skinny. I know that if I were to lose a little weight I'd literally have more time in the morning because I know clothes would fit better. And now I can look at those things more practically. Instead of being like, "What does that say about me?," now I'm just like, "That would be great to sleep in an extra fifteen minutes because I wasn't trying on everything in my closet."”

Ifs Knows Trying Looks Littles Doe I Can Would Be Loses Sleep Morning Minutes Fit Clothes Weight Extras More Time Fifteen Closets Skinny

Author:Mindy Kaling

“You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.”

Knows Trying Done Enough Stuff Hours Sleep Simple Havens Genius Get Better Endeavor Simple Things Brainless

Author:Randy Newman

“I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Trying Heart Littles Dies Sleep My Heart Constitution Rate Busy Heart Rate

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.”

Ifs Trying Remember Sleep Havens Going To Sleep

Author:Richie Havens

“If I were a girl for a day I would try to sleep with Tom Kaulitz.”

Ifs Trying Girl Sleep Toms

Author:Tom Kaulitz

“My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world ... I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. ... I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.”

Ifs World Way Trying Mean Dream Past My Own Sleep Brain Wonder Bears Sorrow Healthy Scene Fingers Forgotten Tiny Holes Grass Prophet Dreamer Bubbles Wet Peers Blades Curls Sinkholes

Author:Karen Russell

“I try not to go to sleep with makeup, because I think it clogs your pores. I always wash my face with something that contains salicylic acid.”

Thinking Trying Faces Sleep Makeup Acid Going To Sleep

Author:Joan Smalls

“Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like a normal person or sleep, if you want it hard enough and do it well enough, it happens. A lot of really talented people either sort of get crushed under the wheel of the movie studio system or desperately try and get their next gig in TV. I understand why, because we've all got to put food on the table and the brass ring is out there, we'd all like to be making the Emmy-winning shows and the blockbusters and all that, but at the same time you could be doing stuff yourself.”

“When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress.”

Trying Heart Self Sleep Cry My Heart Kissing Beats Balls Dresses Toilets Cocktails Laundry Tin Hang Ups Cocktail Dresses

Author:Anne Sexton

“It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control and all the other mechanics that are important to understand but never really go to the heart of the matter: I believe I will say that when you sleep with someone you take off a lot more than your clothes.”

Trying Believe Heart Important Matter Feelings I Believe Sex Sleep Teach Son Birth Periods Clothes My Son Mechanic Fertile Birth Control

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.”

People Trying Night Sleep Poor Rich Hungry Poor People Rich People Can't Sleep

Author:John Lee Hooker

“I try to get away from the pits as quickly as I can. I speak to my engineer when I get out of the car, usually there's some press to do, then I will go off and have a shower and get my dry, clean overalls and clothing on. I'll have a massage, stretch and something to eat. I don't sleep, but I try to close my eyes for a while.”

Trying I Can Eye Speak Sleep Car Presses Clean Dry Get Away Clothings Engineers Showers Pits Massage Overalls

Author:Allan McNish

“POSSIBLE OPENERS AFTER YOU'VE GOTTEN DRUNK AND SLEPT IN YOUR GUY ROOMMATE'S BED (A LIST):1. Hey, Drew, thanks for letting me sleep in your bed. I hope I didn't puke all over your sheets.2. What do you mean? I slept in your bed? Really? I don't remember any of it, I was so wasted.3. Thanks for not trying to molest me.”

Trying Mean Remember Guy Sleep Bed Lists Drunk Thanks Hey Over You Sheets Roommate Puke

Author:Lauren Barnholdt

“I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.”

Trying Ends Home Sleep Busy Candle

Author:Tracy Morgan

“I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.”

Trying Long I Can Real Play Character Sleep Acting Long Time Standing Far Away Mars Nazi Gangsters Womanizer Cockneys

Author:Michael Caine

“Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.”

Inspirational Trying Motivational Sleep Family Internet Cute

Author:Will Ferrell

“The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No one tries to cry except bad actors. How a character hides his feelings tells us who he is. Most people don't know that, and most actors don't do that. Therefore, there are a lot of actors who put me to sleep, that are considered good actors, but they're predictable and boring. I know how the scene is going to end before it ends.”

People Knows Trying Ends Character Feelings Actors Sleep Laughing Know How Talent Cry Scene Degrees Boring Crafts Predictable Good Actors

Author:Martin Landau

“I drive old cars, all my Patagonia clothes are years and years old, I hardly have anything new. I try to lead a very simple life. I am not a consumer of anything. And I much prefer sleeping on somebody's floor than in a motel room.”

Trying Years Sleep Simple Rooms Car Clothes Consumers Simple Life Motels Old Car Patagonia

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.”

Trying Hard Kids Fighting Sleep Schedules Having Kids

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.”

Thinking Needs Trying Sometimes Energy Sleep Nice

Author:Agnes Varda

“You've got to put a lot of hard work in and it's not just in the swimming pool. You've got to look after yourself, you've got to sleep well and you've got to recover between the sessions, whether that's resting or getting the right food inside you. I always try to get the best out of myself and strive for perfection.”

Trying Wells Looks Hard Sleep Hard Work Perfection Strive Swimming Pool Session Swimming Pool Sleep Well Look After Yourself

Author:Liam Tancock

“My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying to get it to an audience. But I do have some kind of detachment that seems somewhat unusual in my trade. I'm a writer who writes every day. I don't have a period of months where I can't get anything done and I wander around tearing my hair out. When I come back from a book tour, for instance, I might have one day where I sleep late and then check my e-mail, and then go for a walk, and then the next day I'm really itching to get back at writing a story.”

“I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.”

Trying Night Voice Sleep Hearing Hearing Voices

Author:Elizabeth George

“When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.”

People Writing Trying Looks Moments Eye Song Sleep Being The Best Why We Write

Author:Luke Bryan

“I took care of myself. Basically I'm a vegetarian, I run every day, I exercise. I kind of control my living habits. I try to get a good night's sleep every night, I don't stay up all night and do all that stuff.”

Trying Kind Care Running Night Stuff Sleep Habit Exercise Vegetarian Every Night All Night Good Night Up All Night

Author:Johnny Ramistella

“God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.”

Trying Use Sleep Humility Higher Rewards Charm Faculty Permit

Book:The Interior Castle: or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle: or the Mansions

“If I dont get enough sleep, my brain gets fatigued, and the voice suffers. If Im doing some retail work and trying to read and record legal copy, I start sounding like I had a few too many the night before.”

Ifs Trying Enough Night Suffering Voice Sleep Brain Records Copies Retail Enough Sleep

Author:Roger Craig Smith

“When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.”

“My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'”

“Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night.”

People Ifs Want Trying Believe Wells Long Jobs Life Is Night Actors Sleep Taste Directors Agree Don't Believe Boring Too Short Life Is Too Short Not Happy

Author:Martin Freeman

“How heartening it is to know that Ken Loach is still out there making committed, polemical cinema, so long as you don't have to watch it. Never go near a Ken Loach film unless you're trying to sleep with a socialist. If you are, however, Land And Freedom should do the trick.”

Ifs Knows Should Trying Long Stills Film Sleep Watches Land Committed Tricks Cinema Socialist

Author:David Bennun

“You know i was just thinking that it's better to die trying [to live your bravest dream] than to live sleeping.”

Thinking Knows Trying Dream Dies Sleep

Author:Robin Sharma

“I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.”

Trying Littles Hands Order Games Hours Sleep Week Figures Fit Waking Twelve

Author:Warren Buffett

“I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop the balls, so I really have to prioritize and use every free second I have and maximize it. I wake up early, try to get sleep, but try to write for at least three hours every day. A really nice day for me is writing ten hours. I love that. Hasn't been a lot of that recently, but every free second I have I'm doing that.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Sometimes Use Three Hours Sleep Five Nice Ten Balls Wake Up Really Nice Up Early Prioritize Nice Day

Author:James Ponsoldt

“After a hard day, try to think of something good about it before you go to sleep - the result may surprise you.”

Thinking Trying May Hard Sleep Results Surprise Going To Sleep Hard Days

Author:John Avery

“Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar . . . They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep.”

People Trying Sleep Nice Neighbor Bars Noise Canada Bikers Nice Family

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.”

Trying Dies Sleep Bed Lays Graves

Book:Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3

Source: Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3

“I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.”

Trying Wells Stills Sleep Rocks Fit Rock N Roll

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“I'm trying to feel terrified and alone. And regret every decision I've ever made, drenched in a cold sweat. It's called going to sleep. Maybe you've heard of it.”

Feels Trying Made Sleep Decision Heard Regret Cold Sweat Terrified Going To Sleep

Author:Arj Barker

“Any extra free time you have, you are sleeping, or you're trying to sleep”

Trying Sleep Extras Free Time

Author:Jordin Sparks

“If I feel like crying, I'll just cry in a dream. Something I really try not to do in my waking hours. I like good melodrama because it's just an undumping of all these compulsions we feel that we work so hard to master during our waking hours. No wonder we crash to sleep in bed at night. We have to, otherwise we'd just spend our waking hours shredding the feelings from everybody else.”

Ifs Feels Trying Hard Feelings Dream Night Hours Sleep Wonder Cry Masters Bed Waking Crash Compulsion Melodrama Shredding

Author:Guy Maddin

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