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Quotes About Sleep

Sometimes you are physically tired at night, but your brain is functioning too much to go to sleep. If you can have software that helps you understand how you can shift from such a tense situation to being more relaxed, then that would help.
~ Satoru Iwata
When I get ready for a high-profile event, it's really about sleep and making sure I'm eating something healthy, and then it's always important to stretch to stay limber. No matter what, you want to feel as loose as possible, because it's easy to get full of excitement or tension with all that's going on.
~ Darby Stanchfield
Hopefully I won't have to sleep with my feet out of the tent.
~ Zdeno Chara
For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.
~ Shelley Duvall
When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.
~ Hans Rosling
I am terribly lazy . So, if I don't have to get out of the house, I will sleep away the entire day.
~ Sayani Gupta
When I'm in New York, I have, like probably everybody else in Manhattan, a white-noise generator to use at night: a Marpac Dual-Speed Dohm-DS. It is terrific. I've never slept better in the city.
~ Erik Larson
I'm in a very successful band. We all love each other. It ain't ever breaking up. I also have a terrific hobby that became a full-time job. My only problem? There's not enough time to sleep in my world.
~ David Bryan
I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.
~ Italo Calvino
Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.'
~ Siri Hustvedt
I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents' door was on at night. When it went off, that meant they were asleep. Then that terror and the fear of being by myself started to creep in.
~ James Gray
During a Test match I am not a very good sleeper, mainly because I am visualising. Everything is positive. Nothing negative.
~ Steve Smith
Nothing tests a marriage more than insomnia or snoring.
~ David Linley
Our children remind us, if we let them, that there are not only many types of dreams but many levels of dreaming, that we do not have to go to sleep in order to dream and that when we imagine something vividly we are doing far more than 'making things up': we may be punching a hole in the world, opening a path into a larger reality.
~ Robert Moss
The electrodes we'd been using on salamanders couldn't be scaled up for people, but within a week Charlie invented some that would give us equally precise readings from the human head.We immediately found that the back-to-front current varied with changes in consciousness just as in salamanders. It was strongest during heightened physical or mental activity, it declined during rest, and it reversed direction in both normal sleep and anesthesia.
~ Robert O. Becker
I guess what I'm saying is that people who don't have nightmares don't have dreams.
~ Robert Paul Smith
Now, forgetting is the means of transition from one state of consciousness to another. Even in the case of sleep, which can be considered as a "natural ecstasy", one has to forget the world of the day in order to be able to pass into the world of the night. In order to fall asleep one has to be able to forget. Insomnia is due to the inability to forget.
~ Robert Powell
Omally, as ever, slept the sleep of the just, which was quite unjust of him, considering he had no right to do it.
~ Robert Rankin
The broad cloud-driving moon in the clear sky Lifts oer the firs her shining shield, And in her tranquil light Sleep falls on forest and field. See! sleep hath fallen: the trees are asleep: The night is come. The land is wrapt in sleep.
~ Robert Seymour Bridges
Make sure there is at least 60 minutes from your last mouthful, to the time you think you'll fall asleep. This is important to maximize growth hormone output. Growth hormone repairs your entire body. Very high blood sugar makes it difficult to release, and most of the release normally happens in the first few hours of sleep. Leaving a small gap before then is sensible.
~ Robert Skinner
Remember kids: brush your greens, eat your teeth, stay in milk, drink your school, don't do sleep, and get your eight hours of drugs!
~ Robert Smigel
Prior to my breakdown I went through a 5 week manic phase, with increasing mental excitation, decreasing sleep, and a near certainty that I wa sthe first person to actually understand what Ludwig Wittgenstein was actually saying.
~ Robert Trivers
Even at night, while he slept, the flamen Dialis was supposed to be attending to his divine service, for a receptacle containing sacred cakes was at the foot of his bed (Gell., 10, 15, 14).
~ Robert Turcan
She looked sad, asleep. Just like Dad. (Maggi wondered if all adults looked sad, asleep.)
~ Robert Westall