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Quotes About Sleep

The gross demonstration of caffeine is that it prevents you from falling asleep. The slightly more nefarious aspect of caffeine is that maybe you can fall asleep, but we know that the depth of deep sleep you're getting if caffeine is still in your system is severely less.
~ Matthew Walker
I possess the unique ability to slip into a coma at any moment's notice.
~ Robin Lopez
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
~ Ben Stein
I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
~ Thomas Dekker
I'm asleep at midnight. I go to bed really early, so I don't have a midnight snack.
~ Katie Lee
In real life, being a new mom, I would like to be able to sleep. I'd like to snap my fingers and be asleep because I'm a little sleep-deprived, at the moment.
~ Jenna Dewan
I sleep nine hours every night, I have a little nap after lunch, and, if I'm going out for dinner, I sneak in an extra one before I head out.
~ Giles Coren
Insomnia is a very prevalent issue. It's a women's health issue, and I chose to talk about it because so many people have experienced it to varying degrees. For me, I'm doing great now, but it took a lot of work to figure out how to get back to sleep. I had to change some of my habits. I developed some pretty bad sleep ritual habits.
~ Jenny Lewis
In the beginning, I took on every opportunity because I was so determined to get my name and music out there. You can get your sleep, but honestly your brain needs a break, too, and so many people forget that.
~ Saweetie
It has taken me so many years to finally be in my bed and fall asleep for six hours.
~ Clemantine Wamariya
I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.
~ Neil Patrick Harris
The brain has millions of local processors making important decisions. It is a highly specialized system with critical networks distributed throughout the 1,300 grams of tissue. There is no one boss in the brain. You are certainly not the boss of the brain. Have you ever succeeded in telling your brain to shut up already and go to sleep?
~ Michael S. Gazzaniga
During the night, her body had come to a fine agreement with the blanket, sheets, and mattress; they'd all got on really well and found the perfect balance of natural blood-circulation and cost wrapped-upness.
~ Michel Faber
Oasans slept a lot; they got tired easily. They'd work for an hour or two, and then, whether the task had been arduous or not, they would go home and rest in bed for a while. Peter stretched in
~ Michel Faber
I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper.
~ Michel Gondry
On the other hand, the last week had pretty much been one waking nightmare after another; if this kept up, her dreams wouldn't have the power to terrify her.
~ Michelle Sagara West
However, animals apparently dream differently than we do. In the dolphin, for example, only one hemisphere at a time sleeps in order to prevent drowning, because they are air-breathing mammals, not fish. So if they dream, it is probably in only one hemisphere at a time.)
~ Michio Kaku
Studies have shown that retaining memories can be improved by getting sufficient sleep between the time of activity and a test. Neuroimaging shows that the areas of the brain that are activated during sleep are the same as those involved in learning a new task. Dreaming is perhaps useful in consolidating this new information.
~ Michio Kaku
Also, some dreams can incorporate events that happened a few hours earlier, just before sleep. But dreams mostly incorporate memories that are a few days old. For example, experiments have shown that if you put rose-colored glasses on a person, it takes a few days before the dreams become rose-colored as well.
~ Michio Kaku
Dormir poco es perder vida también, ya que la que se vive a costa del sueño se vive sólo a medias.
~ Miguel Delibes
Soñar es la función principal de la mente, y la mente sueña veinticuatro horas al día.
~ Miguel Ruiz
I'll go to bed, forget myself in sleep.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
This was at dusk, in mid-October. And she left. I lay down on the sofa and fell asleep without turning on the light. I was awakened by the feeling that the octopus was there. Groping in the dark, I barely managed to turn on the light. My pocket watch showed two o'clock in the morning. I was falling ill when I went to bed, and I woke up sick. It suddenly seemed to me that the autumn darkness would push through the glass and pour into the room, and I would drown in it as in ink.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov