Elizabeth Wein Quotes

How can you grow to love a handful of strangers so fiercely just because you have to sleep on the same couple of wooden planks with them, when half the time you were there you wanted to strangle them, and all you ever talked about is death and imaginary strawberries?

Elizabeth Wein

• Sleep
• Strangers
• Imaginary

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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

• 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

• 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 still sleep with my baby blanket.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Sleep
  • Baby
  • Blanket

• 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

• 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

• 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

• She curled up on the pallet and stared into the dark, praying for a peaceful sleep.Prayers didn’t do no good, oui. Antonio chased her all night. (In the book Antonio, her father, beats and sexually abuses her long-term; she eventually kills him)

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• 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

• As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Death

• I think perhaps it wasn’t a good idea to read aloud Gibbon to me in the evenings, because if it’s nice and hot by the fire, there’s something about Gibbon that does, rather, make you go to sleep.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Sleep

• How do I keep young? Haven't you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer!

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Deep

• From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

  

  Frank Lowy
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• We want to uplift the culture of Filipino - our respect to our elders, how we pray before we eat and sleep. These are things the younger generations tend to forget because of our exposure to other cultures.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Culture
  • Respect
  • Sleep

• Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Mother
  • Nature
  • Death

• Based on the science, you can make somewhat clear statements: The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep without impairment is zero.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • People
  • Science
  • Sleep

• Deep non-REM sleep almost hits the save button on those recently acquired informational pieces so that when you wake up the next morning, you have remembering rather than forgetting.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• My health and schoolwork come first. I work hard to get lots of sleep, but I probably work just as hard to spend time with friends.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Time
  • Work
  • Friends

• Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.

  

  Joyce Meyer
  • Joy
  • Circumstances
  • Based

• The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Friends
  • Japanese

• ..translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

  

  Maurice de Vlaminck
  • Truth

• How can you grow to love a handful of strangers so fiercely just because you have to sleep on the same couple of wooden planks with them, when half the time you were there you wanted to strangle them, and all you ever talked about is death and imaginary strawberries?

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Sleep
  • Strangers
  • Imaginary