Quotes About Rest

I've been lucky, my wife's been amazing. Any time we've had cricket matches she sends me to the spare room to get some sleep. She takes care of everything.

I have the same wind-down routine when I go to bed, whether I'm shooting or not. It's nothing too special - maybe some TV, maybe a book.

The people around the nation, but specifically in Arizona where operation Fast and Furious was carried out, deserve more from their president and their attorney general. I will not rest until full answers are given about this project, justice is served for those responsible, and Attorney General Holder takes responsibility for his role.

I needed a break from the breakneck speed of daily soaps.

I spend a lot of time in bed when I'm off. But if I'm feeling adventurous, I'll go to a gallery.

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

I'll spend the rest of my life chasing that feeling I had on 'The Grey,' because I think we're all aware that, first and foremost, we were having an adventure, and we were also making this movie at the same time.

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.

I have a lot of energy, and if I don't keep myself busy, I go crazy. I alphabetise the spice rack, separate the Lego from the Playmobile, colour-code the knicker drawers - it's scary! My house loves it when I'm working so the linen cupboard can get a rest. I just don't sit around.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

A minister is supposed to be there to remind his permanent officials that they work for the rest of us. If, instead, he becomes the cabinet champion and public spokesman for his department, democracy is vitiated.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

A bachelor is a man who can take a nap on top of a bedspread.

Marriage is the deep deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.

I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I'm here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.