Sleep Quotes - Page 37

• I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time than to sleep later and spend the entire day controlled by time.

  Dan Bouchard

  Motivational, Sports, Wake Up

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• That's why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that's why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hair, Looks, Ponytails

  Interview with Sigrid Agren, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• Good tired, ironically enough, can be a day that you lost. But you won’t even have to tell yourself, because you knew you fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days. And when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy, you sleep the sleep of the just, and you can say, “Take me away.

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Tired, Night

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• The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered
  about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were
  still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the
  horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me
  into bed.

  William Styron

  Morning, Fog, Mind

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

  Bernard Lagat

  Mother, Blessing, Suffering

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• If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night.

  Cyrus Chestnut

  Jobs, Home, Feel Better

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• If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held up as an example of virtue and responsibility. The other type of man, living only for himself, working only for himself, doing first one thing and then another simply because he enjoys it and because he has to keep only himself, sleeping where and when he wants, and facing woman when he meets her on equal terms and not as one of a million slaves, is rejected by society. The free, unshackled man has no place in its midst.

  Esther Vilar

  Jobs, Responsibility, Men

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• Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have sex. Little of this is what we want them to do, of course. We ask them to sit, stay, smell peasant, practice abstinence, and be accommodating.

  Jon Katz

  Dog, Sex, Practice

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• Making love to a Negro isn't frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It's more than nude; it's naked. Anything can happen during the night, when reason sleeps.

  Dany Laferriere

  Night, Making Love, Naked

  Dany Laferrière (2010). “How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired”, p.74, Douglas & McIntyre

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• A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

  Michel de Certeau

  Memories, Long, Stories

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.108, Univ of California Press

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• Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

  Louis Leakey

  Nursing, Animal, Care

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• There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

  Rich Mullins

  Believe, Differences, Grows

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• There's some idea there, and the power of it comes from the fact that most of the time you'll never be able to answer what it is. It's just there. It's just a magic moment that you can feel in your gut that it's there, and you're willing to go there and sleep there and go through the hardship and fight for it. Once you start answering it too clearly then the magic is gone.

  Kalle Lasn

  Fighting, Magic Moments, Ideas

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• The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of doubt taking the very best preventive medicines provided so freely and abundantly by nature

  Joseph Pilates

  Exercise, Men, Medicine

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

  John Stark

  Usa Patriotism, Flags, Widows

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• With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is going to fling across France today those reckless and uncouth sowers of energy who are the great professional riders of the world... From Paris to the blue waves of the Mediterranean, from Marseille to Bordeaux, passing along the roseate and dreaming roads sleeping under the sun, across the calm of the fields of the Vendée, following the Loire, which flows on still and silent, our men are going to race madly, unflaggingly.

  Henri Desgrange

  Dream, Powerful, Men

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• I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day.

  Devon Sawa

  Two, Guy, Two Guys

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• Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the collector of mishap, the victim of misfortune. He suffers from cold and wet and lack of sleep. He is punished more often than rewarded. Yet he continues. Why? Because one great day-- and great days do come, days when the ducks are willing and the gun swings true-- repays him many fold for all the others.

  Ted Trueblood

  Children, Frustration, Gun

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• It's so important to listen to music, to listen again and again. Eat, sleep and drink music.

  Arturo Sandoval

  Important, Drink, Listening To Music

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• A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

  Johnny Moss

  Smart, Men, Traps

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• My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Father, Night, Beef

  "Interview: Ahmet Zappa" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.

  Edward Hirsch

  Morning, Distance, Dark

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat from time to time, to sleep a little and dream a great deal- it is a heavenly existence.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Dream, Lying, Europe

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• I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep

  Daniel Johns

  Bed, Minutes, Extras

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• Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy brain I used to believe was useless — that is the best brain for creative writing. Words come pouring out easily while my head still feels as if it is full of ground fog, wrapped in flannel and gauze, and surrounded by a hive of humming, velvety sleep bees.

  Merrill Markoe

  Morning, Coffee, Believe

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