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Quotes About Sleep

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.
~ Eva Herzigova
Never get out of bed before noon.
~ Charles Bukowski
I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.
~ Dick York
I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.
~ Don Winslow
Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.
~ John Milton
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
~ Heinrich Heine
I won't let my daughters go on screens at least half an hour before bed because I think it stimulates them a little bit.
~ Tess Daly
I can't tell you all my secrets to how I can eat so many. Someone out there might copy it. But I will tell you this: The night before the competition, I sleep only four hours. That means when I actually do eat, my stomach will want to digest the food quicker.
~ Joey Chestnut
Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.
~ Elizabeth Hurley
I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
~ Barbara McClintock
Sometimes I might be sleepy, and sometimes I've literally been sleeping backstage, woken up, gone straight on stage or gone crazy. It's not like I psyche myself; I don't do any of that.
~ Travis Scott
I am not a great sleeper. I don't think I have ever slept 8 hours straight in the last 20 years.
~ Scott Kelly
After two kids, I hit the pillow and go straight to sleep.
~ Cate Blanchett
But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
~ W. H. Davies
Heartbreak is not lessened by the day. Nor is sorrow diminished when washed by night. Sleep will not visit the incomplete soul.
~ Tim Irwin
Sometimes the best dreams came in the final seconds of sleep.
~ Tim Lebbon
In going about the thing that has struck me the most is the untidiness and uncleanliness that comes from bad mattresses... This is of great importance from the health point of view.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
Sweet dreams." Elena gave her a blank look. "That seems very unlikely.
~ Tim Pratt
The weekend passed in two slots—bad dreams and awake. Awake was a bad dream come true, so I preferred the other kind.
~ Tim Sandlin
Sometimes I have trouble sleeping. It's weird—I can feel exhausted but still, I just lie there wide awake, staring up into the dark with all sorts of ideas bombarding me like dead pelicans
~ Tim Tharp
Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue—but really, it's a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.
~ Timothy Ferriss
As someone who read exclusively nonfiction for nearly 15 years, I can tell you two things: It's not productive to read two fact-based books at the same time (this is one), and fiction is better than sleeping pills for putting the happenings of the day behind you.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious."—Thomas Edison
~ Timothy Ferriss
Magnesium and calcium are easiest to consume in pill form, and 500 milligrams of magnesium taken prior to bed will also improve sleep.
~ Timothy Ferriss