“O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.” LittlesStillsLyingStarsSleepTownsSilentChristmasTheeBethlehemLittle TownsDreamless Sleep Author:Phillips Brooks
“It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town.” LightHouseNatureSleepMorningAirSkyStreetsHealthyAngelTownsBreathsBlueCloudsBrilliantShopsJunePassengersBlue Sky Book:The Old Curiosity Shop Source: The Old Curiosity Shop
“Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.” MenHumansWarReasonTogetherMotherNightPrayerSleepEventsCollegeMusic IsTownsEverydayDinnerFuneralFabricEveryday LifeInfantStadiumsSporting Events Book:This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
“The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.” IfsCountryCertainValuesHeavenSleepEnemyStudySacrificeQuietDemandTownsExtremesNoiseMortalsDistractionPhasesSavagesExhaustionSplendorSqualorRural LifeMortal Enemies Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
“My best sunsets are always going to be in my home town, San Diego. Watching the sunset from the Pacific knowing that you're sleeping in your own bed, there's something special about that.” HomeSleepKnowingSpecialBedTownsSunsetPacificSomething SpecialSleeping InSan DiegoHome Town Author:Jon Foreman
“I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.” ThinkingMenYearsRealSleepSituationKnowingDadRacismYears AgoTownsSouthUniversityMy DadLabourServingLionsSouth AfricaNot KnowingReal MenCouncillors Author:Johnny Vegas
“One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.” YearsI CanSometimesMomentsRememberNightSoundVoiceSleepSeaSixTownsCornersTwelve Author:Dylan Thomas
“Beulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.” PeopleKnowsTwoSleepWillingPlanetsHusbandMiracleTowns Author:Bill Bryson
“I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.” PeopleMayAgeNightSongLeftSpeakSleepPathWrittenHeardAdventureKingsTownsAgingUniversitySanityPrincessBurnedStolenMoonlightName Of The WindMinstrels Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Now, this is where I draw the line! It's bad enough everybody in town's going to be thinkin' I'm sleeping with a depressed, lice-ridden, hemorrhoidal foreigner who likes to be tied up and might be pregnant, although-since she's just about cornered the market on condoms-I don't know how that could have happened. But I will not-you listen to me, Emma!-I absolutely will not have anybody thinkin' a woman of mine needs a vaginal moisturizer, do you hear me?” KnowsNeedsEnoughMightLinesSleepKnow HowHappenedMinesDrawsTownsLikesTiedPregnantForeignersListen To MeEmmaCondomTied UpCorneredLice Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.” IfsLittlesEndsEnoughTogetherSleepNiceDrinkEuropeEnglandTownsHotThe End Of The DayBagsVillageHikingEquipmentTrailsBathsTentsInnsAppalachiaHot BathsAppalachian Trail Author:Bill Bryson
“There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the town dark and dreaming beyond your own walls. It draws the truth out of you, straight from its little dark pool down there, where usually you guard it so careful, and wave your hands over it and hum and haw to protect people's feelings, to protect your own . . . You can bring out the jaggedest feelings - if you are my wife and know how to state them calm - into the night quiet. They will float there for consideration, harming no one.” PeopleIfsKnowsLittlesStatesFeelingsDreamHandsNightDarkSleepSilenceTalkingKnow HowWifeWallQuietProtectDrawsEarsTownsCalmWaveCarefulMy WifeConsiderationOver ItPoolFloatsRemarks Author:Margo Lanagan
“He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they're somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets.” MenMadeEnoughEarthNightGuySleepRichBedGoldTownsBlueUncomfortableShirtsJust OneOld ManCoveredSaltJeansBeing RichLike YourselfQuirksWorking ManMidgetBlue JeansSalt Of The Earth Author:Warren Ellis
“I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes And they all fall down. - Sleeping to Dream” LittlesFeelingsDreamFallNextLostSleepBoysTownsBrandsSheepAshesFalling DownCountingLittle BoysBrand New Author:Jason Mraz
“...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.” ChildrenWholeNightUniverseSoundSleepPleasureAirTreeSkyColorWindBedSummerEarsTownsLaysAddFruitWinterArchitectureGentleClimbsShadeLungsPlaygroundsIcyBoilingSnowy Book:The Martian Chronicles Source: The Martian Chronicles
“Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!” SleepBrainGunTownsBig Sleep Author:Humphrey Bogart