Quotes with sleeping

  • A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
  • To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
  • What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
  • Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.
  • My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
  • I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
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  • Benjamin Franklin The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Buddha A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Evelyn Waugh All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Bill Cosby Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Butch Trucks For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • John Cheever I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Mark Twain I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ann Patchett I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Barbara McClintock I've just been so interested in what I was doing [genetic research] that I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Bill Bryson If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Ada Teixeira If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.
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  • Caryl Brahms Lucky Australians! They can go on sleeping for another seven hours and still pass as early risers.
    Ooh! La-La!
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  • Ben Affleck My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Ban Kimoon Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.
    U.N. Says ‘Evidence’ Points to Israel in Gaza School Attack (2014)
    Ban Kimoon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Rose Macaulay Sleeping in a bed - it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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