William Faulkner Quotes

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.

William Faulkner

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• If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Know
  • Sleep
  • Dawn

• I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Sleep
  • Enough
  • Skin

• I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Me
  • Strange
  • Hated

• My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Strange

• Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Body
  • Create
  • Strange

• My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Strange

• I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Think
  • Running
  • Sleep

• I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sleep
  • Easy
  • Plane

• Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Know
  • Strange
  • Act

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Sleep

• I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Why
  • Focus
  • Choose

• I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.

  

  Warren Kole
  • People
  • Know
  • Place

• I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sleep
  • Awake

• The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Insomnia

• When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Crazy

• The strange thing about the Olympics is that delivering on your potential is always quite difficult.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Always
  • Strange
  • Potential

• I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Feminist

• I think it's very important for any actor to eventually produce, and create the projects they want to create. I believe it's all a part of the same art form, which is storytelling.

  

  Michael Eklund
  • Important
  • Art
  • Create

• Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Health
  • Solitude
  • Jealousy

• The E.U. is more resilient than we give it credit for. We always muddle through.

  

  Kersti Kaljulaid

• In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Sleep
  • Strange
  • Don't Know