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Quotes About Sleep

I was very keen on squash. My father used to go to sleep in the afternoon. Normally, in Pakistan, everybody goes to sleep in the afternoon, because it's really hot. I'd go and play without telling anybody.
~ Jahangir Khan
Well, just coming off the stage and there's like 180,000 people out there and your adrenaline is going so high, and you're doing so much and it's hard to just put your head on the pillow and sleep because it just goes on and on, even after you're off the stage.
~ Jermaine Jackson
It's not easy to keep good sleep habits as an entrepreneur, especially at the early stages when there's always a fire to put out.
~ Neil Blumenthal
I can sleep anywhere. I can fall asleep standing up, literally anywhere.
~ Jenna Ushkowitz
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
~ Orson Scott Card
Golden roofs break men's rest.
~ Seneca the Younger
I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.
~ Edna O'Brien
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
~ Bertrand Russell
Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'
~ Nathan Kress
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
~ Francis Beaumont
A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.
~ Garrison Keillor
Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.
~ Gustav Fechner
If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.
~ Abraham Lincoln
But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.
~ Albert Camus
There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
~ Anne Enright
The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.
~ Bear Bryant
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
~ Dante Alighieri
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
~ Harold MacMillan
We also know life passes quickly and death is certain, yet in our busy lives we find it difficult to practice as much as we wish we could. Perhaps we meditate for an hour or two each day, but that leaves the other twenty-two hours in which to be distracted and tossed about on the waves of samsara. But there is always time for sleep; the third of our lives we spend sleeping can be used for practice.
~ Tenzin Wangyal
Morning's great that way. You can cry yourself to sleep and wake up wondering what the fuss was over.
~ Terri Farley
I want to giggle myself to sleep each night and jump on the fluffy, comforting pillows of faith.
~ Terri Guillemets
If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I might be writing in my dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.
~ Terri Guillemets
An interview: Interviewer: How do you sleep with long hair? Paul McCartney: How do you sleep with short hair? George Harrison: How do you sleep with your arms and legs still attached? Paul: It's just as much bother. Less, even. John Lennon: Short hair has to be trimmed. Ringo Starr: Yeah. John: That's why we have parties! Paul: Yeah, that must be it! We can't sleep with all this long hair!
~ The Beatles