Victor Hugo Quotes

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

Victor Hugo

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• I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Sleep
  • Conversation
  • Weakness

• My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • She
  • Wife

• When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Eat

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Work
  • Night

• Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Night

• If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Long
  • Sleep
  • Hear

• I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Music
  • Playing

• My parents used to play me this album when I couldn't go to sleep. It was called 'Deep Forest.' I think it was a self-titled record. It's actually still one of my favorite albums of all time.

  

  Flume
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sleep

• Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• Be, as you have been, my happiness;Let me sleep beside you, each night, like a spoon.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Night
  • Sleep

• 'It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for? - sleep.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Dark
  • Sleep
  • Sad

• I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but she couldn't cos of my 'pop-star thing'… so I said to her I couldn't sleep with her either - cos of her 'ugly thing'...

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • She
  • Sleep
  • Star

• Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep-But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.Maybe you just had the worst day of your life;Well, you know, there's no escape.That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Mind
  • Sleep

• I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Free
  • Small
  • City

• I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

  

  Dick York
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• Sleep is getting to be like gold.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Sleep
  • Gold

• I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Sleep
  • Remembrance
  • Jewel

• I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Things
  • Doing
  • Paper

• It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.

  

  David Robertson
  • Effort
  • Advertising
  • Chickens

• I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

  

  James Frey
  • Hurt

• I surely do hope that's a syntax error.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Hope

• Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sleep
  • Returns