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Quotes About Sleeping

It seems to me sometimes all beauty is dying. Which makes me hope that perhaps it isn't dead but only sleeping. And that makes me think of Sleeping Beauty and wonder if she, Beauty that is, might not be a metaphor for what is happening to the world at large: perfect Beauty born, Beauty cursed with death, Beauty dying - but with the magical hope of being reawakened, maybe by love.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
I fell out of the hammock while I was sleeping. (Arik) On your head? (Geary) Apparently. Good thing it's hard, huh? (Arik)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.
~ Daphne du Maurier
The air was full of the rasping sound of half a dozen men snoring. Occasionally someone coughed, then resumed the snoring again. As they listened, someone let go a long and resounding fart. "Delightful people," murmured Berwick.
~ John Flanagan
Our battle-fields, safe in the keeping Of Nature's kind, fostering care, Are blooming, - our heroes are sleeping, - And peace broods perennial there.
~ John H. Jewett
I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Lady Margaret believed in the three D's: Discipline, Desire, and Determination. But as she listened dutifully to her new employer, hiding her yawns and trying to sit up extra straight in her chair, Charity Hill began thinking of all the lovely things that began with S, such as Sleeping Late, Sex, and Shopping.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Dormidos al borde de un abismo que los cortesanos y los oportunistas cubren de flores —concluye, casi poético.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Sleeps through the washes of the morning's colors and the warm brilliance of sunrise. She sleeps in a world where she remembers, perfectly, every detail about her husband, this day, that sentence, another touch. She will remember it all in the deepest sleep, and lose it again the moment her eyes open and she wonders how late it must be for the sun to already be so high and then remembers, in the next instant, what happened the day before.
~ Ashley Hay
Then she dropped like a stone and was asleep when her head hit the ground, sound asleep, gone. Brian smiled and squatted by the fire and studied the dog sleeping.
~ Gary Paulsen
After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.
~ Charles Perrault
A noise like of a hidden brookIn the leafy month of June,That to the sleeping woods all nightSingeth a quiet tune.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Bible is alive; it is our students who are dead and must be resurrected. Story stirs the sleeping; scripture raises the dead.
~ Sarah Arthur
For Sleeping or Jumping couldn't be a better band name at a better time in music.
~ Ben Weinman
Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.
~ Marilyn Manson
You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
~ Eleanor Porter
At my age an hour's reading before bedtime is essential, and I wisely brought Pamela with me. If any of you has trouble sleeping, I will read aloud to you. I never yet knew anyone who could not fall asleep with Richardson being read aloud to him.
~ Shirley Jackson
The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Lady Macbeth
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth
I was sleeping like a baby - waking up every three hours screaming and crapping my pants.
~ John Swartzwelder
We sang the last chords as we burst into my room, waking up Merlin who had been sleeping contently on my bed. Fern snuggled next to him also asleep, still asleep.
~ John Zakour
Perhaps it's because she spends all her time sleeping—she comes and goes just as she pleases in the world of her dreams, she's free to go anywhere she wants. And that gives her access to much more information than people have who are up all the time.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.
~ Gertrude Stein
I spent the afternoon of Sunday 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.
~ Andrea Pirlo
AJ Styles has proven time and time again that he is phenomenal, and sleeping on AJ Styles is a bad move.
~ Montel Vontavious Porter