Quotes with sleep

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  • Georges Bernanos What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Bob Dylan What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Arthur Golden What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • B. B. King When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Camille Guaty When I first moved to Los Angeles, I had a really bad run. I would sleep in my car during the day outside the Disney building in Burbank, and that's where I got my first job, which is really weird. I liked to stay around the studios and kind of get the good vibes going.
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  • Caroll Spinney When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Ben Stein When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Lord George Byron When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William Butler Yeats When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • T. Boone Pickens Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
    T. Boone Pickens
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Gordie Howe You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
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  • Bill Kurtis You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Adam Sandler You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Busy Philipps Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Ogden Nash Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Albert Schweitzer A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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