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Quotes About Sleepy

Then there was silence, the air like ice. Brittle-looking birch trees with black marks on their white bark, and some kind of small untidy evergreens rolled up like sleepy bears. The frozen lake not level but mounded along the shore, as if the waves had turned to ice in the act of falling.
~ Alice Munro
The man-nurse was his age and had sleepy eyes with dark circles under them, and a jutting Cro-Magnon forehead. His name tag said, improbably, BIBLO. He had a spaceship tattooed on one hairy forearm: Serenity from the TV show Firefly . "'I am a leaf on the wind,'" Lou said, and the man-nurse said, "Dude, don't say that. I don't want to start crying on the job.
~ Joe Hill
The man-nurse was his age and had sleepy eyes with dark circles under them, and a jutting Cro-Magnon forehead. His name tag said, improbably, bilbo. He had a spaceship tattooed on one hairy forearm: Serenity from the TV show Firefly. " 'I am a leaf on the wind,' " Lou said, and the man-nurse said, "Dude, don't say that. I don't want to start crying on the job.
~ Joe Hill
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.
~ Frank Zappa
Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
~ Pete Townshend
The lazy geese, like a snow cloudDripping their snow on the green grass,Tricking and stopping, sleepy and proud,Who cried in goose, Alas.
~ John Crowe Ransom
Ramoth's huge golden wedge-shaped head swiveled around as the sleepy dragon instinctively sought her Wyermate.
~ Anne McCaffery
Why did you save Mahmoud? Killian's voice was so low she almost didn't hear him. Instinct, she muttered sleepily. I certainly wasn't about to save you His laugh vibrated through his leg, through her body. Of course not. Mahmoud's grateful.
~ Anne Stuart
Forty, sleepy, overweight, comfortable Arridi townsmen, who hadn't fought a real engagment in twenty years or more, wouldn't provide much resistance to thirty yelling, fiendish, bloodthirsty, gold crazed Skandians who would come screaming up from the beach like the hounds of hell.
~ John Flanagan
Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo -- and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
I love the make-up trailer. It's a great way to start the day, drinking coffee and singing along to Elvis with the make-up artists. They work wonders on a very sleepy face.
~ Emily Berrington
Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away.
~ John Keats
at this hour of the morning, and knock sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
As for a cigar after dinner, it only makes you dull and sleepy and disinclined for ladies' society.
~ barrie j m ii
I am overworked sometimes. I'm tired sometimes. I'm sleepy sometimes. And social media allows me to show you that I'm human, too.
~ Mikhail Varshavski
They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.
~ Scott O'Dell
The community is eminently Portuguese—that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.
~ Mark Twain
But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa...
~ Stephen King
An old, old formula came to mind, from back when I was very young indeed. "I am a soldier." I said it first in the language I had spoken then, then repeated myself in Sleepy's own Dejagoran dialect. "I've been distracted before. I'm still alive.
~ Glen Cook
Did you really need to yawn like that, Graypaw? Oh, I see, it's because it's the dawn patrol, and you're tired.
~ Erin Hunter
Alisha sips her coffee. "Well, kids, I only have a few minutes, but I wanted to drop by and see how it was going. Here are your paychecks, by the way." "Yay!" I say for the both of us, since Jack is now sleepily staring into his coffee mug.
~ Erynn Mangum
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
~ Jack London
Patricia? You have rehearsal in an hour." "I'm up," she groaned in a voice that indicated she was anything but. Marcia moved to the next room, Haley's, and took a quick peek. The
~ Harlan Coben
They just kept grinning at me from over the stupid sign, Dopey because he's too dumb to know any better, Doc because – well, I guess because he might have been glad to see me. Doc's weird that way. Sleepy, the oldest, just stood there, looking … well, sleepy.
~ Meg Cabot