Edith Bowman Quotes

I'd rather sleep with a rock star then be one.

Edith Bowman

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• The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • More

• When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Alone
  • Sleep
  • I Can

• You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Night
  • Feeling
  • Day

• 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

• Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Live
  • Sleep

• It's funny because everyone says you sleep when baby sleeps or you take a nap when baby takes a nap. That's true when you have one. When you have two, that is not true.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • True
  • Funny
  • Sleep

• I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Time
  • House
  • Sleep

• Never could I tell, try as I might, what it actually was that I saw; nor could the still face tell, for although it must have seen more than I did, it will never speak again. But always I shall guard against the mocking and insatiate Hypnos, lord of sleep, against the night sky, and against the mad ambitions of knowledge and philosophy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Night
  • Knowledge
  • Sleep

• 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

• I sing and drink and sleep on floorsAnd try hard not to be annoyedBy all these people worrying about me.So when I'm suffering through some awful drive,You occasionally cross my mind.It's my hidden hope that you are still among them.Well, are you?

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Hope

• You don't get something for nothingYou can't have freedom for free.You won't get wiseWith the sleep still in your eyesNo matter what your dream might be. - Something for Nothing (1976)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Dream
  • Free
  • Freedom

• My husband plunged into work on a speech and I went off to work on an article. Midnight came and bed for all, and all that was said was 'good night, sleep well, pleasant dreams, with the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.'

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Good
  • Work
  • Night

• Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Good
  • Black
  • Sleep

• Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Wisdom
  • Sleep
  • Silence

• The attorney general called and asked me if I was willing to be interviewed for FBI director. And the truth is I told him I didn't think so, that I thought it was too much for my family. But that I would sleep on it and call him back in the morning. And so I went to bed that night convinced I was going to call him back and say no.

  

  James Comey
  • Family
  • Truth
  • Night

• Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives in an underslept state, not realizing it.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • People
  • Sleep

• When I give lectures, people will wait behind until there is no one around and then tell me quietly, 'I seem to be one of those people who need eight or nine hours' sleep.' It's embarrassing to say it in public.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • People
  • Sleep

• I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it's like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Experience
  • Sleep
  • Grief

• It's very important not just to think you need to eat and drink and sleep. You need to feed your heart and your mind and your soul as well.

  

  Elliot Knight
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Successful women don't sleep until noon.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Women
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

  

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  • Single
  • Text

• For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Shadow

• I'd rather sleep with a rock star then be one.

  

  Edith Bowman
  • Sleep
  • Rock Star