Sleeping Quotes

• Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Lose
  • Sleeping
  • Fantasies

• I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?' But it's so exhausting, you can't be 'on' 12-14 hours a day.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Reading
  • Film
  • Scenes

• For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Creation

• Yes has been sleeping in this kind of awful mode that I think is slightly disrespectful to our beautiful fans. It's all ... political is not the right word, but it's all contrary to different people's opinions of what's right and what's wrong. I think that's really a shame.

  

  Steve Howe Yes
  • Political
  • Fans
  • Word

• Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life.

  

  Will Carleton
  • Life
  • Give
  • Won

• I don't deny it," said Frodo, looking at Sam, who was now grinning. "I don't deny it, but I'll never believe you are sleeping again, whether you snore or not. I shall kick you hard to make sure.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Sleeping
  • Grinning
  • Snore

• 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
  • Job
  • Responsibility
  • Woman

• She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Brother
  • Sand
  • Glass

• What should the sleeping arrangements be in a ménage-à-trois? Is it polite to read while two people have sex beside you?

  

  Adam Thirlwell
  • Sex
  • Sleeping
  • Arrangements

• I never liked sleeping in the dark. I have, like, twinkle stars around my bed, so it's not so bad.

  

  Millie Bobby Brown
  • Around
  • Sleeping
  • Twinkle

• The only thing more exhausting than sleeping on a bad mattress is shopping for a new one.

  

  Elisabeth Leamy
  • Shopping
  • Sleeping
  • Exhausting

• You are not truly wealthy unless you earn money while you are sleeping

  

  Aristotle Onassis
  • Wealthy
  • Sleeping
  • Earn

• He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Tears
  • Face
  • Sleeping

• Sometimes I fell like I’m drowning, actually, it’s more like most of the time. But every now and then when I’m sleeping I still have a dream that I’m flying… and I wake up crying.

  

  Alexi Murdoch
  • Dream
  • Flying
  • Sleeping

• I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.

  

  Trisha Goddard
  • Sleeping
  • Weeks

• Guns, double-crosses, hitmen... I can get used to a lot of things, but I'm never going to get used to sleeping where apocalypse bugs mate,” Wednesday said, walking into the room looking around. She dropped her Birkin on the floor and heard something scuttling behind the cheap plastic wood print veneer covered dresser. She turned to face Alvin, her head cocked to the side. “Seriously. I'm not saying five-star... I'm saying go on Expedia and find a place that actually has stars... any stars.

  

  Dennis Sharp
  • Things
  • Stars
  • Heard

• I hate sleeping. I figured, I've slept the first eleven years of my life away, so now I'm just making up for it.

  

  Anthony Zerbe
  • Life
  • Sleeping
  • Making Up

• But one can’t do mime while sleeping.

  

  Etienne Decroux
  • Sleeping
  • While
  • Mime

• Fortunately, cartooning is not a job. It's something like eating or sleeping.

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • Eating
  • Sleeping
  • Cartooning

• Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Freedom
  • Faith
  • Learning

• This brings us to the question was Jesus sleeping?

  

  Craig Parker
  • Question
  • Jesus
  • Sleeping

• For Sleeping or Jumping couldn’t be a better band name at a better time in music.

  

  Ben Weinman
  • Music
  • Sleeping
  • Band Name

• A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Earth
  • Reads
  • Occupies

• I don't like sleeping in a different place every night, but I do like meeting new people.

  

  Ed Askew
  • Night
  • Meeting
  • Sleeping

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