Falling Asleep Quotes - Page 2

• The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.

  Ann Patchett

  Fall, Writing, Character

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• I had the total attention of both my parents, and was secure in the knowledge of being loved ... My memories of falling asleep at night are to the comfortable sound of my parents' voices, voices which conveyed in their tones the message that these two people loved and trusted one another.

  Jill Ker Conway

  Memories, Fall, Night

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• You see the crowds. I mean, you don't see enthusiasm like that at a Hillary [Clinton] rally. People are falling asleep.

  Donald Trump

  Fall, Mean, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I really think that I don't mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It's not to be taken badly at all.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Fall, Taken, Sleep

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• You can get anywhere on earth by falling asleep.

  Feist

  Fall, Earth

  Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2006.

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• People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it.

  Kurt Vile

  Fall, People, Mad

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• All the things you need in the death transition, you need now in the life transition, because life is a transition, it is a between state. Therefore, every night when you fall asleep, it's like you die. And every time you do, you should be using the process of falling asleep as giving up your attention to sense objects, your discursive ruminating thoughts and so on. You should use that as a process of giving up and giving yourself completely to the universe and becoming completely obliterated.

  Robert Thurman

  Giving Up, Fall, Night

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.

  Amanda Hocking

  Book, Fall, Reading

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• I remember exiting the birth canal and suddenly I was in a film. But you are never really in charge of that. The movie came out about five or six months ago in America. It was Miramax in the States and Disney here [fakes falling asleep]. What happened. I love working for Disney, not Walt specifically because he couldn't be more dead, but the company is fantastic.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Fall, America, Fake

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Beginning today, make the decision to love and accept yourself just the way you are. Say your name followed by the words "I love you" and make this your daily mantra, repeating it often, especially during times of stress. Let it be your first thought upon arising and the last you think before falling asleep at night. This simple act of self-courtship can profoundly change your world. Try it for yourself and see. Make a personal decision to be in love with the most beautiful, exciting, worthy person ever - you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Beautiful, Stress, Fall

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• I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Fall, Thinking, Wish

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Fall, People, Enchantment

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

  Douglas Adams

  Fall, Sheep, Blame

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

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• When you're facing a difficult issue that you absolutely can do nothing about - I can't fly the plane; I can't change the weather - falling asleep, you'll either wake up and things will be fine or you won't.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fall, Issues, Weather

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• An audience will let you know if a song communicates. If you see them kind of falling asleep during the song, or if they clap at the end of a song, then they're telling you something about the song. But you can have a good song that doesn't communicate. Perhaps that isn't a song that you can sing to people; perhaps that's a song that you sing to yourself. And some songs are maybe for a small audience, and some songs are for a wide audience. But the audience will let you know pretty quickly.

  Richard Thompson

  Song, Fall, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Fall, Tears, Sixteen

  "Francis Ford Coppola: What I've Learned" by Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. July 7, 2009.

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• Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hurt, Fall, Dying

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• The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important? Sit down, he said. Then I dreamed I stood up And I said: Teacher, I’m weary of the turkeys That we have to draw every fall. May I draw a fox instead? Sit down, he said. Then I dreamed I stood up once more and said: Teacher, My heart is falling asleep And it wants to wake up. It needs to be outside. Sit down, he said.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Teacher, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2010). “Swan: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.27, Beacon Press

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• Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box.

  Henry Miller

  Letting Go, Spring, Struggle

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.

  Anais Nin

  Fall, Clothes, Bed

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• It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up.

  David Walliams

  Fall, Sleep, Anxiety

  David Walliams (2012). “Camp David”, p.244, Penguin UK

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• I fell asleep at my desk many times. This was when working on events—virtually every one I’ve done in the last 5 years. I was not confronting the writing of speeches. In fact, I was not wanting to confront what I was doing at the time—being irresponsible... I am now known for falling asleep. This has happened 50 times in the last 5 years and probably 20 times at my desk in the last 2 years.

  Mike Rinder

  Fall, Writing, Years

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• How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.

  Anne Frank

  Fall, New Day, Mind

  Anne Frank (1972). “Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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• My legs are falling asleep,” I blurted. It wasn’t a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included. “I could solve that.” Patch’s hands closed on my hips.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Lying, Fall, Hands

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?

  John Waters

  Book, Fall, Sleep

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.153, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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