Quotes About Rest

I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.

It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.

I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.

When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.

Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.

I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.

Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

All of us needed time to rest. And we had time - four months of it - to take all the rest in the world.

I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."

I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.

I like daytime dates now. By the time night comes, I'm so exhausted and I feel like I'm no fun at night anymore.

Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

I'm working all the time. When I'm home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.

Tune into your own capacities and always make time for sleep

When I do get married again, I'm just going to take time off.

I like some time away to recharge the batteries, not only physically, but emotionally so that I get to the point where I'm just dying to direct again and then that's the right time to do it again.

I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.

In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.