Sleep Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 21, 2024
‘Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.’ – William Blake
‘He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.’ – Aeschylus
‘Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.’ – Francis Bacon
‘The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.’ – Robert Frost
‘People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.’ – George Orwell
‘A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.’ – Victor Hugo
‘As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
‘One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.’ – Virginia Woolf
‘I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.’ – Thomas Jefferson
‘Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.’ – Thomas Dekker
‘Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.’ – Heinrich Heine
‘Sleep is the best meditation.’ – Dalai Lama
‘Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer
‘I love sleep; it’s my favorite.’ – Kanye West
‘If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.’ – Henny Youngman
‘Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.’ – Anthony Burgess
‘It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.’ – John Steinbeck
‘Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.’ – Thomas Aquinas
‘I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.’ – Tom Brady
‘The only time I have problems is when I sleep.’ – Tupac Shakur
‘I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?’ – Ernest Hemingway
‘I’ll sleep when I’m dead.’ – Warren Zevon
‘Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.’ – Le Corbusier
‘True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.’ – William Penn
‘There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘I go to sleep every single night thinking I’m not good enough. I really do. I don’t know if that’s healthy or not. But I really do have a fear of not being good, and I don’t like that.’ – Diana Taurasi
‘When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.” – Steven Wright
‘Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.’ – George Bernard Shaw
‘Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.’ – William Wycherley
‘Don’t sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.’ – Aristotle Onassis
‘My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.’ – Marlo Thomas
‘The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.’ – D. H. Lawrence
‘A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.’ – Stewart Alsop
‘I train, eat, sleep, and repeat.’ – Khabib Nurmagomedov
‘Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.’ – Walt Whitman
‘Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.’ – Ramana Maharshi
‘Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.’ – Matthew Walker
‘Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’ – William Shakespeare
‘Tired minds don’t plan well. Sleep first, plan later.’ – Walter Reisch
‘The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.’ – Anatole France
‘We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.’ – Laurie Colwin
‘I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.’ – Bob Dylan
‘An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any air will do – it must be exquisitely designed to meet our needs. Too little oxygen in the atmosphere will kill us, as will too much.’ – Hugh Ross
‘If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.’ – J. Cole
‘Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.’ – Brooke Foss Westcott
‘From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.’ – Thomas Moore
‘Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.’ – Rod McKuen
‘What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.’ – Paul Auster
‘I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.’ – Nikola Tesla
‘The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.’ – Woody Allen
‘Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.’ – Noam Chomsky
‘We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have ‘guardians at the gate.” – Allen West
‘I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.’ – Elon Musk
‘We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations – we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.’ – Rodney Dangerfield
‘The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.’ – Chanakya
‘Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.’ – James Freeman Clarke
‘Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.’ – St. Jerome
‘The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.’ – Marilyn Monroe
‘Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.’ – Lord Byron
”O sleep, O gentle sleep,’ I thought gratefully, ‘Nature’s soft nurse!” – Elizabeth Kenny
‘I’m going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.’ – George Ryan
‘There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.’ – Homer
‘Ninety percent grind, 10 percent sleep. That’s our motto.’ – Paul Wall
‘The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.’ – Jocko Willink
‘They say it’s better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.’ – Conor Oberst
‘I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high. You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.’ – Dr. Dre
‘The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.’ – W. C. Fields
‘God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.’ – Cyndi Lauper
‘It’s useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.’ – John Cage
‘Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.’ – Albert Camus
‘You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.’ – Carlo Ancelotti
‘We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.’ – Earl Nightingale
‘A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.’ – Salman Rushdie
‘When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.’ – William Butler Yeats
‘Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.’ – Jean Paul
‘I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis
‘I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don’t know how to explain it more. It’s universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain – not pain, arguments. I’ve grown quite comfortable with being at war.’ – Brad Pitt
‘For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.’ – Steve Jobs
‘True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.’ – Justin Timberlake
‘Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn’t you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness.’ – Bobby Berk
‘God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila
‘Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It’s like the ultimate rest. It’s better than the best sleep you’ve ever had. It’s a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.’ – Hugh Jackman
‘I hang out with my cats, watch Netflix and try to sleep as long as I can.’ – Lisa
‘A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.’ – C. S. Lewis
‘I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.’ – Jim Mattis
‘Getting into a sleep routine before the first week of school will aid in easing the shock of waking up early.’ – Chuck Norris
‘A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.’ – W. H. Auden
‘I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.’ – Leif Garrett
‘I don’t know how anyone lives in Miami. Because no one goes to sleep.’ – Dave Portnoy
‘How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.’ – Bram Stoker
‘The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.’ – Marc Chagall
‘Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right – when he knocks you down, you’ll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.’ – Muhammad Ali
‘The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.’ – E. M. Forster
‘I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn’t until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don’t have a problem going to sleep at night.’ – Mark Wahlberg
‘It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.’ – Mark Twain
‘Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America?’ – Fannie Lou Hamer
‘We eat, sleep, breathe bitcoin.’ – Tyler Winklevoss
‘We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.’ – Henry Ward Beecher
‘Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight.’ – Khaled Hosseini
‘Well, especially now I come to realize – and then – I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I’d record for hours and hours until it’s time to go to sleep.’ – Michael Jackson
‘Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.’ – Ludwig Wittgenstein
‘When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson
‘If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? If the answer is yes, then there is clearly more sleep that is needed.’ – Matthew Walker
‘For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.’ – Doug Larson
‘Whenever I have free time, I usually just sleep, play games, watch movies, see my friends, have a drink. Basically, I do whatever other people do in everyday life.’ – Lee Min-ho
‘Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.’ – Fran Drescher
‘I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.’ – Edgar Rice Burroughs
‘Best and I worked in the sub-basement of the old medical building day and night. Time, meals, sleep – all were of secondary consideration. We had to get insulin into a form that was refined enough for continued clinical use.’ – Frederick Banting
‘A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.’ – Honore de Balzac
‘You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws, in false security and delusive hopes. Our broad domains are fast escaping from our grasp.’ – Tecumseh
‘I’m a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.’ – Joel Rosenberg
‘I wake up around 8 A.M., which isn’t too bad at all. I usually try to get to bed at 10 or 10:30. For a while I tried to see how my recovery was with just eight hours of sleep. And sometimes, that can be fine. But I like getting nine or more hours. I feel like I can wake up on my own if I’ve gotten nine hours.’ – Christian McCaffrey
‘I’m hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.’ – Rufus Wainwright
‘Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.’ – Thomas de Quincey
‘If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.’ – Dale Carnegie
‘No sleep makes a human into another human.’ – RM
”The Exorcist’ is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don’t know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn’t go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn’t go upstairs by myself. I couldn’t sleep.’ – Odette Annable
‘You can’t stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.’ – bell hooks
‘It’s a matter of priorities. Do you want to win, or would you like to sleep? Do you want to win, or would you like to take a day off?’ – David Boies
‘I received a lot of complaints from parents who wrote and told me that their kids wouldn’t go to sleep until our show was over. So I went on the air and told all the children watching to ‘listen to their Uncle Miltie and go to bed right after the show.” – Milton Berle
‘My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises.’ – Thalia
‘I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.’ – Rene Descartes
‘No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.’ – Robert Adams
‘You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.’ – Gordie Howe
‘We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.’ – Jerry Seinfeld
‘I’ve had sleep paralysis.’ – The Weeknd
‘Doing something like ‘Damages,’ I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper.’ – Chris Messina
‘I sleep really well at night.’ – Lauren Boebert
‘Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I’ve gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn’t make you feel fatigued.’ – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
‘Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.’ – Herman Melville
‘Establishing healthy habits – like eating a healthy diet, getting plenty of sleep, and participating in regular exercise – can also go a long way to improving how you feel. Similarly, getting rid of destructive mental habits, like engaging in self-pity or ruminating on the past, can also do wonders for your emotional well-being.’ – Amy Morin
‘Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.’ – James G. Stavridis
‘I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‘Maria’ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.’ – Adam Sandler
‘I’m envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.’ – Moby
‘I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.’ – Kevin Gates
‘After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.’ – Albert Hofmann
‘I have to have eight hours a night. I feel that everything falls apart if you don’t sleep. If I spend four hours memorizing dialogue but don’t sleep, then the next day I will not be able to stand in front of the camera and say my lines. For me, sleep is the number one thing.’ – Cote de Pablo
‘The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.’ – Harold Wilson
‘The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.’ – Ellen G. White
‘I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you coming through some door.’ – Arthur Miller
‘Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night’s sleep, and strangers’ monologues framed like Russian short stories.’ – Paul Theroux
‘I just feel like there’s a lot of things more important than just basketball, and I love basketball. It’s what I want to do for the longest time possible. It’s what I eat, it’s what I sleep about, it’s what I breathe, it’s in my lifestyle. I just really feel like there’s more important things than just putting the ball in the hoop.’ – Jalen Brunson
‘The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.’ – J. C. Ryle
‘You can sleep with a blonde, you can sleep with a brunette, but you’ll never get any sleep with a redhead! – Jamie Luner’ – Jamie Luner
‘Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.’ – Walter Pater
‘Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.’ – Emil Cioran
‘When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.’ – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
‘A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.’ – H. P. Lovecraft
‘We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.’ – Erich Fromm
‘Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.’ – Sylvia Plath
‘Beast Mode doesn’t make excuses. It doesn’t complain. Whatever you’re doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.’ – Matt Kemp
‘I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.’ – Evelyn Waugh
‘The days when a princess was too delicate to sleep on a mattress with a pea under it are long gone.’ – Caroline, Princess of Hanover
‘Sleep – death without dying – living, but not life.’ – Edwin Arnold
‘It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.’ – Baltasar Gracian
‘Science tells us more and more now that there is a strong connection between emotional well-being and health outcomes, and that you can proactively cultivate emotional well-being through relatively simple practices like sleep, social connection and meditation.’ – Vivek Murthy
‘A lot of people have money, but they don’t have peace with it. They can’t sleep. They need bodyguards every day.’ – Mase
‘I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn’t even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.’ – Byron Katie
‘We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse’s knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.’ – Olive Schreiner
‘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
‘Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only difference being that when their dreams turn to nightmares, we all lose sleep. There can be no trusting the muttering of any prelate when it comes to money.’ – Howard Jacobson
‘I’m sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.’ – Matteo Salvini
‘As long as you know yourself and you got good people around you and you passionate about what you do, that’s all that matters because at the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love.’ – Tyga
‘Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.’ – William Golding
‘Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.’ – Michel de Montaigne
‘I go without sleep, I just go hard.’ – Tom Cruise
‘Like you and your woman ain’t gettin’ along and you’re in love. You can’t sleep at nights. Your mind is on her – on whatever. You know, that’s the blues. You can’t hug that money at night. You can’t kiss it.’ – John Lee Hooker
‘Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.’ – Fran Lebowitz
‘They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.’ – Angelina Jolie
‘A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.’ – Albert Schweitzer
‘Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.’ – T. Boone Pickens
‘One of the things I do to stay healthy and fit is to make sure I exercise every single day. Aside from eating right and getting enough sleep, exercise keeps me trim and boosts my energy.’ – Martha Stewart
‘Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.’ – Francesca Annis
‘Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They’re like bull elks in a field.’ – Tori Amos
‘What happened to me is I gained a little weight so I could be more accessible to people. They’re not like, ‘Oh my God, he’s, like, a male model comedian; yuck, ugh.’ It’s like, ‘Oh, he’s a little squishy; He’s like me. He’s accessible.’ And girls are like, ‘Look how cuddly he is. I just want to cuddle up in his neck fat and go to sleep.” – Adam DeVine
‘Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.’ – Christopher Judge
‘Mobile devices such as Android and the iPhone achieve their battery life largely because they can aggressively and quickly enter into and exit from sleep states. GPS prevents this.’ – Robert Love
‘I love to sleep.’ – Ruskin Bond
‘My beauty secret is really three secrets: get eight hours of sleep, eat natural/organic food, and exercise regularly.’ – Sasha Pivovarova
‘I cannot sleep – great joy is as restless as great sorrow.’ – Frances Burney
‘Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone loves getting into a bed made up with beautiful linen. I love sewing, I love fabrics, and I love sleeping.’ – Twiggy
‘I just have always felt as long as I’m 100 percent honest, then it’s just me. It’s a lot easier to sleep at night that way.’ – Mac Miller
‘I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.’ – Shia LaBeouf
‘I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don’t know.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson
‘I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.’ – Conor McGregor
‘But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.’ – John Donne
‘No man can become a saint in his sleep.’ – Henry Drummond
‘It is a great feeling when you lay down at night, and you know there are little kids out there imitating you, and people want to know what you eat and when you go to sleep.’ – Marvin Hagler
‘Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.’ – Tom Brady
‘The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident. If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.’ – Aimee Mullins
‘Nutrition and sleep are two of the most underrated things, especially with younger kids.’ – Brad Stevens
‘When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.’ – Ursula K. Le Guin
‘The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.’ – Hedy Lamarr
‘I am a father. My son’s name is Max and my daughter’s name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty!’ – John C. McGinley
‘I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear… that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.’ – Harold Kushner
‘I like to get more than my normal 10 hours of sleep nights before a game.’ – Tim Howard
‘I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.’ – Tia Mowry
‘If you want to have a good sleep, you have to have a good mattress.’ – Jonathan Scott
‘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
‘Yes, I’ve kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that’s it. I don’t go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.’ – Paris Hilton
‘One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.’ – Robert Browning
‘Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley
‘At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you’re not in the right place where you need to be, then you’re going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.’ – Mehmet Oz
‘I wrote the song ‘Angels Standing By’… to try and soothe myself – rock myself to sleep, basically – because I was so scared and stressed.’ – Jewel
‘Sleep has never been a priority in my life.’ – Ryan Kwanten
‘I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.’ – DJ Khaled
‘I’ll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I’ll have an hour just resting, to recover. In Spain they all have siestas, even businessmen.’ – Anthony Joshua
‘There’s something sacred in all of us that we need to protect, and sleep is a way to connect with it, nourish it, and make it more present in our lives.’ – Arianna Huffington
‘I kind of have a strange addiction to hair dryers. Like on the TV show, where they eat toilet paper or eat the wall or something – I’m addicted to hair dryers. Since I was 8 years old, I’ve used them to fall asleep. I love the white noise. I love the heat. It just puts me right to sleep.’ – Julia Fox
‘She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can’t wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.’ – Jamie Foxx
‘I sleep with castor oil and clingfilm wrapped around my stomach. It’s amazingly slimming because it detoxes your system. I also regularly cleanse my liver.’ – Davinia Taylor
‘The way I recharge is simple. I have 3 ways. Either I eat, play games, or sleep.’ – Jin
‘Some days were better than others, and I knew how to fake it to look normal. But some days I wanted to sleep all day because I had chronic fatigue. I just couldn’t get well.’ – Tabitha Brown
‘Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?’ – Stephen LaBerge
‘I would never say anything derogatory about another actor even in my sleep.’ – Akshaye Khanna
‘I really don’t care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.’ – Betty White
‘Being poor sucks… It’s hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you’re trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.’ – Antony Garrett Lisi
‘At night when I can’t sleep, I play blackjack online until I get tired or I lose my money.’ – Nicky Hilton
‘It’s the whole white-supremacist movement, no matter what they call themselves – be it Klan, Nazis, alt-right, skinheads – the basic ideology is the same. They consider themselves superior to others because of their white skin, and we should not sleep on that.’ – Ron Stallworth
‘I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.’ – Thomas Mann
‘We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.’ – George Orwell
‘I usually sleep four or five hours, but when you are training, you need more than that.’ – Lewis Hamilton
‘I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don’t worry anymore.’ – Anna Chlumsky
‘A lot of the major players in the 1960s were the same as the 1940s and 1950s – Hitchen’s ‘Sleep with Slander.’ Armstong’s ‘Lemon in the Basket,’ which is a fusion of the political assassination thriller and a family drama. And Hughes’s ‘The Expendable Man.” – Sarah Weinman
‘In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.’ – Knute Nelson
‘Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.’ – Nelson Algren
‘If one app or news site or friend gets your attention, that means something or someone else loses it. It comes out of our sleep, our time with family or our reflective time with ourselves.’ – Tristan Harris
‘I tend to sleep in the nude… I’m a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word ‘leaning’ or it sounds like I’m boasting.’ – Padma Lakshmi
‘Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.’ – Sholom Aleichem
‘Hopefully I won’t have to sleep with my feet out of the tent.’ – Zdeno Chara
‘I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
‘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
‘I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I’ve said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names.’ – Linus Torvalds
‘I feel more comfortable when I’m lighter – I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better.’ – Tyra Banks
‘You can only follow what’s on your mind. In fact, a song is something you write because you can’t sleep unless you write it.’ – Joe Strummer
‘I’d love to hold a koala. They sleep 22 hours a day, eat eucalyptus leaves and just hang out. I want to spend some time with that guy.’ – Milo Ventimiglia
‘When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.’ – Mason Cooley
‘I have a lot of respect for PM Narendra Modi, as he works hard day and night and doesn’t sleep more than 4 hours. So I am thinking of gifting him chewing gum, as he will chew that and will take rest and take care of his health.’ – Manoj Bajpayee
‘A reporter asked recently, ‘What keeps you up at night?’ I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don’t have to count sheep. I count all the states I’m glad I’m not the governor of.’ – Mitch McConnell
‘Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.’ – Victor Hugo
‘Sleep is Mother Nature’s best effort yet to counter death.’ – Matthew Walker
‘I used to go out and carouse. I was afraid to go to sleep because I thought I might miss something.’ – Steven Ford
‘I enjoy the simplistic training and life in marathon. You run, eat, sleep, walk around – that’s how life is. You don’t get complicated. The moment you get complicated it distracts your mind.’ – Eliud Kipchoge
‘Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer
‘The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.’ – Margaret Atwood
‘Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.’ – Marilyn Monroe
‘I enjoy spending time with my family. And when my family’s not around, when I’m on the road, a lot of sleep. I get my rest. I understand how important my job is and how important rest is to that job. I’m pretty boring.’ – Mark Teixeira
‘Every single workout counted when I trained, I didn’t miss any meals and made sure I got my sleep.’ – Dorian Yates
‘I sleep on my stomach with my head under a bunch of pillows so if someone wants to come in and try to kill me they can’t tell if I’m there or not, so they’ll just leave.’ – Wiz Khalifa
‘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
‘When I’m alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.’ – Zsa Zsa Gabor
‘No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.’ – Harold MacMillan
‘Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.’ – Heinrich Heine
‘Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.’ – Virginia Woolf
‘Sleep – the most beautiful experience in life – except drink.’ – W. C. Fields
‘I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don’t require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I’ll take a powernap during the day.’ – Dolly Parton
‘I don’t care who you are, but you turn into a different person when you don’t sleep.’ – Vinny Guadagnino
‘What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.’ – Bob Dylan
‘For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.’ – Marissa Mayer
‘In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won’t mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.’ – Daniel H. Wilson
‘I get up, upload a video to YouTube, eat, sleep, and check all my social medias, eat again, sleep some more, watch ‘Dancing With The Stars’ and go to sleep for the night. Just your average teenage girl, give or take a decade.’ – Trisha Paytas
‘I knew the training pitch better than anyone. When others went out clubbing, I went to sleep. When others had Christmas, I went out in the woods to run.’ – Pavel Nedved
‘Don’t tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won’t respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, ‘Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.’.’ – Joan Rivers
‘If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn’t shoo them away – well, that’s the height of romance.’ – Salma Hayek
‘I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.’ – Paloma Picasso
‘I am diagnosed with what’s called ‘REM behavior disorder.’ As far as the disorder goes, there’s no cure, but it’s going pretty well as far as these things go. I see a sleep doctor, take medication, etc.’ – Mike Birbiglia
‘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
‘I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours’ sleep.’ – Miranda July
‘I’m not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and hear it in my voice. When working 14-hour days, I have to go home, go to sleep, and wake up in time for crew call. I hate naps. They throw me off the rest of the day.’ – Anna Kendrick
‘My routine while filming a movie is so basic: wake up, work, shower, sleep. I try to cut all the things that aren’t absolutely imperative, so I can be 100 percent when I get to set the next day. I just feel and work better that way.’ – Camila Morrone
‘Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.’ – Ludwig Wittgenstein
‘When I played Tonto in ‘The Lone Ranger’ and was playing the older Tonto, I would just leave the makeup on and go to sleep because it was a four or five hour job; it was, from the waist up, all over me.’ – Johnny Depp
‘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
‘Sometimes I’m so tired, I look down at what I’m wearing, and if it’s comfortable enough to sleep in, I don’t even make it into my pajamas. I’m looking down, and I’m like, ‘T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that’s fine. It’s pajama-y, good night.” – Rebecca Romijn
‘I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don’t like myself, there’s no reason to even live the life.’ – Gabourey Sidibe
‘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
‘I sleep at night, but I don’t sleep well.’ – Benny Gantz
‘I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That’s why I still love to sleep on couches now.’ – Alicia Keys
‘I’ve been airbrushed out, as it were. You can imagine my frustration at being erased from history deliberately. I really don’t know how Yoko can sleep at night knowing what she’s done. But I can tell you I sleep very peacefully.’ – May Pang
‘I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I’m feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.’ – Jeff Mangum
‘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
‘After Rilo Kiley broke up and a few really intense personal things happened, I completely melted down. It nearly destroyed me. I had such severe insomnia that, at one point, I didn’t sleep for five straight nights.’ – Jenny Lewis
‘I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.’ – William H. McRaven
‘I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, ‘I don’t know what to do with myself,’ so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn’t sleep… I was 14.’ – Eliot Sumner
‘The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.’ – Gaston Bachelard
‘I can’t go to sleep at night if I didn’t accomplish at least something. That’s the one thing that keeps me up.’ – Marilyn Manson
‘When people are entering a high-stress period, they don’t sleep and don’t exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite.’ – Jim Loehr
‘I don’t let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can’t let that happen.’ – John Grant
‘I love to sleep. I’d sleep all day if I could.’ – Miley Cyrus
‘Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.’ – Robert Baden-Powell
‘When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can’t sleep at night thinking about it. It’s terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.’ – Hans Rosling
‘I used to sleep in the desert once every week, now it is every two weeks, most of the time alone. It’s beautiful. What I enjoy is taking my food and cooking for myself.’ – Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
‘In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I’d sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.’ – Sandra Cisneros
‘When I read the script sometimes, it’s like ‘Christ! Enough!’ I can’t sleep at night sometimes. There’s the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can’t shower off.’ – Mariska Hargitay
‘I’ve always had this hyper kinetic energy, so I don’t really need much sleep at night.’ – Leander Paes
‘I like to be in bed at 11, and I like to get 11 hours of sleep.’ – Matthew Gray Gubler
‘We are not hypocrites in our sleep.’ – William Hazlitt
‘I think playing a long time with somebody, we know each other’s tendency in our sleep.’ – Joe Thornton
‘I’m big about washing my face before I go to bed, washing it when I wake up in the morning, getting good sleep and drinking a lot of water. Those are just easy things that you can do for your skin.’ – Kendall Jenner
‘Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.’ – Rose Kennedy
‘Some of the elements of sleep hygiene are basically the same as good health practices. Nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol all negatively impact sleep, the more so the closer they’re consumed to bedtime.’ – Maria Konnikova
‘I used to record ‘Futurama’ episodes on my cassette player and play it to help me go to sleep.’ – Jermaine Fowler
‘The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.’ – Anatole France
‘I hate horror movies. I get really scared, and I don’t want to be scared. I don’t know why, but I’m one of those people who gets frightened and can’t go to sleep.’ – Callum Turner
‘As long as I know that I give my best every time, I can sleep well knowing that.’ – Ciara
‘To me, in general, something that’s really rich in terms of identity about transit spaces is that they’re so intimate. Especially thinking about long international flights when we’re trying to sleep on the plane – we’re total strangers, but we’re sleeping next to each other.’ – Laura van den Berg
‘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
‘Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.’ – Ani DiFranco
‘When we were kids, we couldn’t wait to have our own rooms, not to have to share anymore. And that is what I love about having my own bedroom. It is mine. My sleep is mine. Both pillows are mine. If I wake up, it is me who has woken me up… It makes me feel like a grown-up. I love it.’ – Lisa Jewell
‘I eat, sleep, and breathe movies. Though I didn’t understand the seriousness of films when I made my debut, I felt on top of the world.’ – Sridevi
‘When we lost, I couldn’t sleep at night. When we win, I can’t sleep at night. But, when you win, you wake up feeling better.’ – Joe Torre
‘I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.’ – Ted Turner
‘I’m not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, ‘All right! Get out of the room.” – Adam Sandler
‘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
‘I think sleep is probably the neglected stepsister in the health conversation today. I think we’ve done a good job regarding physical activity and diet, but sleep has remained out there in the cold, and that’s surprising to me.’ – Matthew Walker
‘I don’t sleep. I hate those little slices of death.’ – Walter Reisch
‘I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!’ – Jennifer Aniston
‘The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today’s machines and what we have so far been able to finish.’ – Donald Knuth
‘Everyone thinks I like to sleep. It’s not that I like to sleep, it’s that I don’t like to get up! There is a difference.’ – JC Chasez
‘Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.’ – Homer
‘I can’t understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It’s like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.’ – Philip Larkin
‘Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.’ – Nicolas Chamfort
‘Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn’t go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.’ – Pierre Salinger
‘I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.’ – Emil Cioran
‘I don’t know how people view me. At the end of the day, I’m going to try to be me and do whatever I think is right, and however people view that, they have a right to that. I’m not going to lose any sleep over it, regardless.’ – Chase Elliott
‘I think clothes should make you feel safe. I like clothes you want to go to sleep in. I sometimes stand in front of a mirror and change a million times because I know I really want to wear my nightgown.’ – Gilda Radner
‘No one warns young people to follow Adam’s example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him. We need more of this ‘being asleep’ in the will of God.’ – Jim Elliot
‘The minute anyone’s getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They’re the two vital elements for a healthy life.’ – Francesca Annis
‘If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.’ – Alessandro Michele
‘When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don’t get any sleep.’ – Louis C. K.
‘Normally, adults process their waking experiences during sleep. Children cannot yet carry their waking experiences into sleep. Thus, in sleep, they settle into the general cosmic order without taking their physical experience into the cosmic order.’ – Rudolf Steiner
‘I used to sleep nude – until the earthquake.’ – Alyssa Milano
‘If we didn’t need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent of our sleep time millions of years ago. Because when you think about it, sleep is an idiotic thing to do.’ – Matthew Walker
‘I think I’m still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain’t brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.’ – Colin Farrell
‘So Hell Week is considered to be the hardest week of the hardest military training in the world. It is a week of continuous military training during which most classes sleep for a total of two to five hours over the course of the entire week.’ – Eric Greitens
‘I see all these old people who don’t have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say ‘retired’ because that’s such a finality that I don’t want to be part of my life. I’ll work until they throw me in a box.’ – Mario Andretti
‘My attitude when I’m in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don’t wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I’m hungry and go to sleep when I’m tired.’ – Jesse Ventura
‘I just don’t sleep enough. But I have never met someone very successful who, at the end of their life, says ‘I wish I slept more.” – Robert Herjavec
‘Cats thrive when they can walk around and sleep in a patch of sunlight.’ – Beth Ostrosky Stern
‘I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop – they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.’ – Dr. Dre
‘Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.’ – Conor Oberst
‘I hadn’t slept in 20 years. I would sleep a couple hours a night, and I went from specialist to specialist and they could never find out why.’ – William Regal
‘The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food – five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.’ – Andrea Barrett
‘Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.’ – Barbara Walters
‘There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from moment-to-moment, no matter what’s happening. Especially when you are awake, which is pretty much most of the time except for deep sleep.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn
‘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
‘Sleep is a regenerative process where we heal and where our neurons build strong connections. It’s like a fountain of youth that we dive into every night.’ – Mikhail Varshavski
‘My biggest hobby is playing golf, which I really enjoy. Now when I am lying in bed at night, unable to sleep, I find myself thinking about my golf swing. I’m also involved in the Tampa Bay chapter of First Tee.’ – Vinny Testaverde
‘I would often draw in my sleep. That alone made for twice the work… I couldn’t use the weird stuff I drew while dozing off, so I’d end up having to draw it all over again.’ – Akira Toriyama
‘Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse – no water, food, medical care, the government imploding – while letting us sleep at night.’ – Max Brooks
‘I don’t really like scary movies. I don’t seek them out. I’m very sensitive and impressionable. I’m the kind of person who will sleep with the light on for a week if I get really scared.’ – Natalia Dyer
‘I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.’ – Henry David Thoreau
‘I get this thing every once in a while that I call ‘ESS:’ emergency sleep situation. I’ll get like lead, really fatigued, and I can’t move.’ – Teri Garr
‘I lead a very regimented life. I take excruciating care of myself: I take a lot of vitamins, get enough sleep, don’t drink apart from a glass of wine occasionally.’ – Angela Lansbury
‘Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.’ – B. C. Forbes
‘First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I’d just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.’ – Paris Hilton
‘From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.’ – Paracelsus
‘I don’t get much sleep, so I have really bad bags under my eyes.’ – Darcey Bussell
‘We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.’ – Richard Schiff
‘Sometimes I’m playing darts in my sleep and I wake myself up. I hate it.’ – Phil Taylor
‘I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.’ – Rooney Mara
‘Every other guitar player was just copying other guitarists. From the time I was 13 up until 18, I practiced at least eight hours a day, every day. My health suffered for it – I was losing sleep and not eating properly.’ – Yngwie Malmsteen
‘In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.’ – Luigi Pirandello
‘As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn’t sleep at night from anticipation.’ – Rosecrans Baldwin
‘I’m one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.’ – Carter Burwell
‘We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you’re getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the same thing on an underslept brain, which means you end up having to stay awake longer. So goes the vicious cycle.’ – Matthew Walker
‘If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and along comes a predator and has you for dinner. Many creatures do not sleep or sleep while standing so they can escape from dangerous situations.’ – Bernie Siegel
‘Don’t think that because you haven’t heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.’ – Spike Lee
‘Don’t be losing sleep over tiny things. Life is complicated enough.’ – Shaun Evans
‘My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It’s early work, derivative work.’ – Mary Oliver
‘The myriad of serious health risks resulting from poor diet include high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and even sleep apnea.’ – Jane Velez-Mitchell
‘In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.’ – William Gurnall
‘I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.’ – Jenny Holzer
‘I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than sleep.’ – Vera Rubin
‘Leading sinners to salvation en masse – or one by one – it is all the same. I eat it. I sleep it. I dream it. I speak it. I write it. I pray it. I weep it. I laugh it.’ – Reinhard Bonnke
‘Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.’ – Pico Iyer
‘I’d rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.’ – Shawn Mendes
‘Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.’ – Tom Brady
‘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
‘I’ve worked a lot during the night. But I don’t sleep in the day either.’ – Enrique Iglesias
‘You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‘in the know,’ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.’ – Adam Sandler
‘When you have your hair sewn in it feels like there’s something on the back of your head and when you sleep you feel it.’ – Sammi Giancola
‘For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.’ – William Lipscomb
‘I usually go to sleep with wet hair. When I wake up, it either has a really pretty wave, or I look like a poodle.’ – Madison Beer
‘Literally, from the moment I wake up from the moment I go to sleep, I’m just working without distraction. It’s just the way I’m wired.’ – Lee Zeldin
‘I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I’ll say to myself: ‘I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn’t be there.” – Charlize Theron
‘At a personal level, it’s just the day-to-day: I’m a mum that needs to meet all of the responsibilities that come with being a mum, making sure that Neve has the basics, that she’s fed, that she’s loved, that she sleeps as much as we’re able to get her to sleep, and we will do that together. That’s a practical reality of my new role.’ – Jacinda Ardern
‘Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!’ – Jules Verne
‘I don’t seem to require a lot of sleep. I just – if I get four, five good hours, I’m fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There’s a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.’ – Betty White
‘You’re trying to sleep off a debt that you’ve lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn’t it be lovely if sleep worked like that? Sadly, it doesn’t. Sleep is not like the bank, so you can’t accumulate a debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time.’ – Matthew Walker
‘Your passion is that one thing you can’t stop thinking about, that thing you wake up thinking about in the morning, go to sleep thinking about at night, that thing that you would do for free!’ – Charlamagne tha God
‘I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.’ – Alana Stewart
‘In Italian there is an expression: We don’t sleep on the fame.’ – Donatella Versace
‘If I’m really stressed I find it hard to get to sleep, but most nights my head hits the pillow and I’m out. I could probably curl up on my kitchen floor and have a kip if I needed to.’ – Fearne Cotton
‘Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.’ – Tony Blair
‘If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I’m firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.’ – Emmanuel Jal
‘There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn’t get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.’ – Harold H. Greene
‘I’m going to keep it real gully with you; the first two months, I wanted to give him back. I expected someone to come and save me because after you have the baby, nobody cares about you anymore. Nobody cares if you sleep, nobody cares if you eat. It’s just you and this all-consuming thingy!’ – Jill Scott
‘A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she’s a tramp.’ – Joan Rivers
‘The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.’ – Dan Gable
‘I don’t sleep as much as normal people do.’ – Virgil Abloh
‘I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.’ – Kerri Walsh Jennings
‘I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.’ – H. P. Lovecraft
‘The first thing I do after I wake up is switch on the music player and the last thing I do before going to sleep is stop it.’ – Sanjay Leela Bhansali
‘A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it’s all over.’ – Mary Roberts Rinehart
‘I’m petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. I woke up once to take a sip of water and almost swallowed a dead one floating in the glass.’ – Kyle Schmid
‘It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe – you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.’ – Lord Byron
‘Sleep is essential for the body and mind and restful sleep is one of the foundations of good health. Recharging and rejuvenating body and mind sufficiently every night is important for better quality of life.’ – Milind Soman
‘I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.’ – Benjamin Franklin
‘I sleep pretty good knowing that I go out there every night and lay it all on the line with a pure heart and take whatever comes with that.’ – Fred VanVleet
‘I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.’ – Matthew Walker
‘When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.’ – Marilyn Monroe
‘Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep – a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.’ – Michael Leunig
‘Life is too short to give pain to others. I eat to the fullest, sleep long and make people laugh whole heartedly.’ – Bharti Singh
‘My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.’ – John Travolta
‘Fitness is essential, and so is diet, but sleep is the most important of them all. It helps our body to recover from all the wear and tear.’ – Sooraj Pancholi
‘Getting a script and being like, ‘Oh, yeah, I can do this in my sleep.’ Who wants to do that? So, finding something that is a real challenge and is going to take all of you, I think, is more rewarding by the end of it.’ – Cailee Spaeny
‘If you’re in a diabetic or prediabetic state, it’s good to have medication to go on for a period of time. But simply by making the changes – get your sleep, 35 grams of fiber and a half-hour walk – your cholesterol will come down, your sugar will come down, and your blood pressure will come down. Only the minority of people can’t control it.’ – Michael Moore
‘Because I’m so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I’m irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.’ – Joni Mitchell
‘The body needs its rest, and sleep is extremely important in any health regimen. There should be three main things: eating, exercise and sleep. All three together in the right balance make for a truly healthy lifestyle.’ – Rohit Shetty
‘I call myself a creationist. I’m sure some people will tell you that you need resistance, melodrama. I don’t really need anything, honestly. A good night’s sleep, a little time alone, and I feel like I can create a world.’ – Van Hunt
‘I usually wake up around 7:30 A.M. without an alarm clock. I wake up naturally because I’m huge on sleep. I believe it’s the No. 1 thing you can do if you’re trying to create a better life.’ – Tony Gonzalez
‘It’s always good to leave a little space between eating and lying down in bed at the end of the day. The best thing to eat at night in general is protein, fat, and vegetables. For instance, if you’re in an Italian restaurant, have chicken piccata with lemon-butter sauce, lots of vegetables, and a big salad. You’ll sleep like a baby.’ – Suzanne Somers
‘Every time we go to sleep, it’s a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.’ – Joni Eareckson Tada
‘The secret to my success is to work seven days a week. It’s as disappointing an answer as the one about how to lose weight. Eat less. Sleep less. Very boring.’ – Sandi Toksvig
‘I’m like a child inside and I really get excited, so sometimes when I’m trying to go to bed, I’m so excited about the next day that I can’t go to sleep.’ – Sean Combs
‘Sleep is my best friend… A friend that helps you dream, relaxes, recharges, and is there at the end of every day!’ – Shruti Haasan
‘We didn’t sleep last week – we literally didn’t sleep – because we’ve been so busy with the book.’ – Hansie Cronje
‘Sleep and hydration are the very best things you can do for your skin. You want to drink water and green tea throughout the day and get as much sleep as you possible can.’ – Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
‘Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night’s sleep.’ – Carl Honore
‘Your subjective sense of how well you’re doing under conditions of sleep deprivation is a miserable predictor of, objectively, how you actually are doing.’ – Matthew Walker
‘I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.’ – Harold Wilson
‘If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.’ – Mac Miller
‘Sleep is a waste of time.’ – Vint Cerf
‘My marriage is far from perfect. We’re not hand-holdy and soft. We are snippy and bickery. We sleep in separate beds because we have no tolerance of each other’s night-time idiosyncrasies.’ – Lisa Jewell
‘Unfortunately, I have a child who doesn’t sleep.’ – Mariacarla Boscono
‘The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.’ – Stacey D’Erasmo
‘I’ve done ‘Back in the Saddle Again’ so darn long, I could go to sleep and sing it.’ – Gene Autry
‘When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her children – me, my five brothers, and three sisters – could eat and have a safe place to sleep. We hardly saw her.’ – Patrisse Cullors
‘Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!’ – Al Lewis
‘We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.’ – Annie Besant
‘Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can’t function your brain, forget your vocabulary.’ – Anna Friel
‘Sleep is important for a comic – like it is for a lot of people.’ – Tom Segura
‘I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it’s doable.’ – Imelda Marcos
‘Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.’ – Gregory Bateson
‘Every once in a while, a book so possesses me that I happily give up a couple of consecutive nights of sleep – as well as the evening news broadcasts and latenight talk shows – to finish it. That’s what happened when I opened the novel ‘Shadow Tag’ by Louise Erdrich.’ – Bill Moyers
‘Falling asleep is like landing a plane. It takes time. You’ve got to sort of gradually descend. I think one of the problems with insufficient sleep is people are not very good at predicting how poorly they are doing when they are under-slept.’ – Matthew Walker
‘Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.’ – James Howell
‘The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.’ – Robert Duvall
‘Tart cherries lower the levels of inflammation in the body, which may be particularly useful for those who suffer from gout. They have also been used to improve sleep.’ – Michael Greger
‘I had to learn to forgive. I couldn’t sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn’t want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.’ – Rodney King
‘That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.’ – Aldous Huxley
‘If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it’s the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made.’ – Matthew Walker
‘We have stigmatised sleep with the label of laziness.’ – Matthew Walker
‘It’s amazing what sleep does for your looks.’ – Emily Procter
‘Passion is the thing that won’t let you sleep at night because you want to get up in the morning and go do your thing.’ – Chris Gardner
‘My sole recreations consist in dancing English hornpipes and cutting capers. Italy is a land of sleep; I am always drowsy here.’ – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
‘When you have a quality mattress, great sheets, and a good duvet with the perfect fill, it all works together to give you the perfect sleep.’ – Jonathan Scott
‘The amount of sleep – the total amount of sleep that you get – starts to decrease the older that we get. I think one of the myths out there is that we simply need less sleep as we age, and that’s not true, in fact.’ – Matthew Walker
‘For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.’ – Jean Paul
‘I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.’ – Kevin Spacey
‘Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.’ – Renata Adler
‘I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.’ – Jack Valenti
‘Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.’ – Stephen LaBerge
‘A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn’t sleep on Monday nights.’ – Alan Jay Lerner
‘The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.’ – Jacques Maritain
‘Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you’ve known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night’s sleep?’ – Walter F. Mondale
‘Time, motion and wine cause sleep.’ – Ovid
‘To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.’ – Thomas Chandler Haliburton
‘His insomnia was so bad, he couldn’t sleep during office hours.’ – Arthur Baer
‘Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.’ – James Stephens
‘I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, ‘Tell me the truth? Is it true?’ Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It’s a bit absurd, but that’s why everybody lies so much.’ – Penelope Cruz
‘Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.’ – Marian Wright Edelman
‘For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.’ – George Santayana
‘I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.’ – Mary Stewart
‘I’d never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified – I couldn’t sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.’ – Jennifer Love Hewitt
‘Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.’ – Evan Davis
‘What does the truth matter? Haven’t we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!’ – Georges Bernanos
‘The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.’ – Charles Baudelaire
‘For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
‘In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.’ – Thomas Wolfe
‘I don’t sleep with happily married men.’ – Britt Ekland
‘Indolence is the sleep of the mind.’ – Luc de Clapiers
‘Childhood is the sleep of reason.’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
‘My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.’ – Elizabeth Gaskell
‘Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.’ – Comte de Lautreamont
‘I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.’ – George Farquhar
‘But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?’ – James Thurber
‘I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.’ – George Borrow
‘Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.’ – Francis Beaumont
‘Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.’ – Quentin Crisp
‘The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the ‘I,’ under another form, continues the task of existence.’ – Gerard De Nerval
‘Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.’ – William Wordsworth
‘I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven’t a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I’ve had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.’ – Alphonse Karr
‘Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don’t get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don’t have to do as much, like you don’t go on as many outings.’ – Hugh Jackman
‘Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.’ – Hugh Jackman
‘Life certainly points it out to you – ‘you can go this way or the other way.’ You have to decide and it’s a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you’re living in the best place, but you’re letting the place where you should live alone?’ – Gael Garcia Bernal
‘If you’re lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.’ – Rip Torn
‘I’ll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.’ – Pat Nixon
‘My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.’ – Billy Boyd
‘It’s funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.’ – Lou Ferrigno
‘In the past, when I’d recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn’t getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.’ – Amy Grant
‘When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don’t know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.’ – Benicio Del Toro
‘They think my life is glamourous. It’s not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That’s the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that’s it. Eat, sleep and do shows.’ – Adam Garcia
‘I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it’s brought me incredible good luck.’ – Sarah Hughes
‘I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals… I’ve been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.’ – Jim Palmer
‘There’s a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I’m not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.’ – Bob Hayes
‘If you can’t eat it, can’t sleep under it, can’t wear it or make something from it, it’s not worth anything.’ – Don Young
‘I don’t sleep much. I’m on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.’ – Bill Walton
‘How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country’s wishes blest!’ – William Collins
‘If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.’ – Donald Justice
‘Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.’ – Alphonse Allais
‘Directing is: you’re overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you’re still thinking about it.’ – Campbell Scott
‘Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.’ – Sidney Sheldon
‘I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.’ – Marguerite Young
‘We train in the mornings, and then I go home and rest or sleep, and usually I go for a meal with Abel of a night, as we’re the two with no family here, so we tend to hang around together.’ – Richard Gough
‘My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.’ – Mark Webber
‘I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.’ – Geronimo
‘But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.’ – Karl Shapiro
‘You can only sleep in one bed at a time.’ – Nick Rhodes
‘I don’t even like to sleep – I feel as if there’s too much to do.’ – James Franco
‘Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.’ – Amelia Barr
‘I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning.’ – Gerard Butler
‘We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.’ – John McCrae
‘We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.’ – Black Kettle
‘The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I’m going to regret it.’ – Scott Caan
‘So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don’t feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.’ – Suzanne Vega
‘So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!’ – Bryan Procter
‘You sleep with people all the time that you hate.’ – Casey Affleck
‘My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual’s knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.’ – Emeril Lagasse
‘I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.’ – Casper Van Dien
‘In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics… am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.’ – Edward Albert
‘You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, ‘Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It’s sobering.’ – Bill Kurtis
‘I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn’t sleep with them, or do drugs with them.’ – Morgan Brittany
‘I think sleep’s really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.’ – Jena Malone
‘I think that episode in the third season was great. I’m really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he’s a rock star.’ – Bradley Cooper
‘I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time – when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night – and that went on for eight years.’ – Andrew Wiles
‘Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.’ – Ernst Zundel
‘I think my character’s getting to the point where he can’t even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can’t sleep anymore.’ – George Eads
‘The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles’ lips, – the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.’ – John Strachan
‘There’s also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time – when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.’ – Andrew Wiles
‘You can’t find the sound if you just love sleep.’ – Dennis Brown
‘Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep?’ – Frank B. Kellogg
‘I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn’t want to go to work the next day exhausted.’ – Dick York
‘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
‘During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.’ – Mike Love
‘People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It’s their own little horror show that only they can deal with.’ – Bruce Campbell
‘I’m shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it’s probably good – I get to go home and sleep.’ – Neil Patrick Harris
‘I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.’ – Stacey Dash
‘I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.’ – Joanna Southcott
‘It’s hard ‘coz you have got different time zones; you can’t sleep and y’know, it’s boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y’know, onstage it’s all better.’ – Kerry King
‘Different astronauts sleep in different ways.’ – Sally Ride
‘Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds – compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.’ – Sally Ride
‘It’s easy to sleep floating around – it’s very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don’t float into somebody or something!’ – Sally Ride
‘Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.’ – Dick Bruna
‘But the mind travels far – and mysteriously – in sleep.’ – Mary Augusta Ward
‘Now, on nights that I can’t sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.’ – Namie Amuro
‘We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.’ – Noel Redding
‘I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he’s guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?’ – Jim Garrison
‘I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn’t sleep at night.’ – Christopher Darden
‘Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?’ – Helena Bonham Carter
‘It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights.’ – Helena Bonham Carter
‘When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!’ – Michael Strahan
‘I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.’ – Twyla Tharp
‘I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don’t know when they sleep.’ – Val Kilmer
‘I’m lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I’m fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.’ – Eva Herzigova
‘What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?’ – Arthur Golden
‘If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.’ – Robin Wright
‘Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.’ – Zhang Ziyi
‘I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.’ – Harold Brodkey
‘I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.’ – Mordechai Vanunu
‘Because that’s just the way it is, and don’t sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can… not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.’ – Thierry Henry
‘I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.’ – April Winchell
‘Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who’s sending me a slant board.’ – Bernadette Peters
‘As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences – this life and beyond – we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.’ – Henry Reed
‘It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage – our universal awareness.’ – Henry Reed
‘What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don’t we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep.’ – Henry Reed
‘I don’t think a director should have any kids. I don’t even think it’s good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.’ – Tom Berenger
‘Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.’ – Gustave Meyrink
‘It wasn’t always easy getting up at 5 o’clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.’ – Nancy Kerrigan
‘Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.’ – Louis Leakey
‘When I was a kid, I’d kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.’ – Olympia Dukakis
‘I should try to get some sleep as one doesn’t know what tomorrow may bring.’ – Robert Mapplethorpe
‘As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.’ – Jerzy Kosinski
‘If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.’ – Ethel Merman
‘I couldn’t sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.’ – Darren Aronofsky
‘Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.’ – Jupiter Hammon
‘I’m a big movie fan. After a show, if I’m on the bus or a plane, it’s often hard to get to sleep, so I’ll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.’ – Garth Brooks
‘If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?’ – Robert Fripp
‘If I ever went, I’d want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn’t want to plan my own death.’ – Dustin Diamond
‘The difference for me is I just don’t sleep on friends’ couches anymore.’ – Sean Kinney
‘You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.’ – Warren Cuccurullo
‘Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.’ – Mary Cheney
‘You get three hours’ sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.’ – Ed Harris
‘I’d sleep under a Vermeer.’ – John Lithgow
‘I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.’ – Lynda Barry
‘You don’t swing where you sleep.’ – Sammy Davis, Jr.
‘I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It’s kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it’s really hard to get to sleep.’ – Laura Prepon
‘I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.’ – Rick Larsen
‘Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we’re not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.’ – Morley Safer
‘Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children’s bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.’ – Louise Brown
‘That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they’re getting their news earlier. They’re getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours.’ – Katie Couric
‘I don’t get to sleep when I’m in New York. Really. I’m living on adrenaline.’ – Daniel Libeskind
‘Now I know what it’s like to be a rock star. No, I didn’t sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.’ – Tony Visconti
‘I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.’ – Ronnie Spector
‘I am going to fight – I, a socialist and Syndicalist – so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.’ – Philip Gibbs
‘Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?’ – Christine Baranski
‘It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that’s probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can’t sleep I read books or watch movies.’ – Keren Ann
‘So to me, Texas Hold ’em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that’s going to work.’ – Joseph Bologna
‘To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.’ – George Grey
‘Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.’ – Chantal Kreviazuk
‘Making sleep happen is a must – anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I’ll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.’ – Chantal Kreviazuk
‘Unlike in my young days I’m not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.’ – Amelie Mauresmo
‘But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven’t done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.’ – Linda Vester
‘I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren’t dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.’ – Brad Bird
‘I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don’t, I don’t think you’ve ever really lived.’ – Diane Cilento
‘I don’t lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.’ – Dennis Nilsen
‘I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.’ – Compay Segundo
‘I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.’ – Danny Glover
‘As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.’ – Aleksandr Lebed
‘No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.’ – Karl Lagerfeld
‘I think I’d have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I’d not lost quite so much sleep.’ – Charles Kuralt
‘Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.’ – Georges Duhamel
‘We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.’ – Richard Branson
‘All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.’ – Richard Harding Davis
‘In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.’ – Taylor Caldwell
‘When I can’t sleep, I’ll start thinking about how many shows I’ve done, count up the number of television shows and movies.’ – Robert Wagner
‘Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.’ – Charles Olson
‘But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.’ – W. H. Davies
‘My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.’ – Samuel Rutherford
‘Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.’ – Conor Oberst
‘Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.’ – James Hetfield
‘I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.’ – Billy Wilder
‘Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.’ – George Allen, Sr.
‘There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night’s sleep.’ – E. W. Howe
‘The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.’ – Gail Porter
‘In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.’ – Mary Wilson Little
‘Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.’ – Edmund Spenser
‘Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.’ – Janet Street-Porter
‘You know, that’s the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.’ – Clare Boothe Luce
‘Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.’ – Holly Near
‘I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it’s like writing a grocery list.’ – Ann Patchett
‘Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.’ – Renata Adler
‘There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.’ – Meg Greenfield
‘Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.’ – Bertrand Russell
‘The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.’ – James Thurber
‘Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.’ – John Bunyan
‘To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it’s degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.’ – Barbara Cartland
‘It’s hard to sleep at night because I’m still wondering where my mother is.’ – Fred Savage
‘I’ve always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?’ – Anne Tyler
‘I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ‘work’, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.’ – Andy Warhol
‘Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.’ – Ben Folds
‘The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?’ – Anna Quindlen
‘When I’m trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.’ – James Lafferty
‘I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I’ll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It’s not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced.’ – Kristen Bell
‘My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.’ – Ben Affleck
‘My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don’t want to put myself in the position where I’m in a monogamous relationship right now. I’m not dating just one person. ‘Sex and the City’ changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.’ – Lindsay Lohan
‘Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep, as long as you’re happy with the way you are and the way you look, that’s the most important thing. I think it’s an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you’re wearing, but not if that’s the most important thing.’ – Ashlee Simpson
‘Men find it difficult because I’ve got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.’ – Susannah York
‘But you can’t focus on things that matter if all you’ve been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.’ – Charlie Sheen
‘You know I used to sit there and I’d go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you’d best believe I’m sleepin’.’ – Scotty McCreery
‘Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It’s tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.’ – Peter Sarsgaard
‘My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I’m not daunted by the travel. People say, ‘It’s so far to Australia,’ and I say, ‘You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up – and you’re there.” – Geoffrey Rush
‘I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called ‘Jump Cuts’! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, ‘We sent that e-mail one minute ago – you’re so fast!” – Lev Yilmaz
‘I’ve lost 12 inches in three weeks. Every time I go for the costume fitting each week, it’s smaller and smaller. I’m feeling great. I’m putting in the work. I’m getting a lot of sleep. Everything is on the backburner right now. ‘Dancing’ is my priority.’ – Ricki Lake
‘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
‘If I lived alone, Mom’d never sleep because she wouldn’t know I was okay.’ – Scott Baio
‘The day I pitched, I would drink either ’cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn’t sleep.’ – Dwight Gooden
‘I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something.’ – Elizabeth Berkley
‘I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn’t wake up, and that was fine.’ – Mike Wallace
‘You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I’m getting paid to do it now is kind of funny.’ – Chris O’Donnell
‘I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.’ – Martha Plimpton
‘I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I’d do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I’d get in bed and cover myself with dolls and teddy bears.’ – Peta Wilson
‘I had a mouse in my apartment and I couldn’t sleep for two nights. I hate mice. They move so fast.’ – Matt Czuchry
‘Obviously, I’m suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.’ – Bernard Lagat
‘I’ve been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.’ – Maya Rudolph
‘Sleep is very precious to me. I love to sleep.’ – Tia Mowry
‘The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I’ve heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don’t, you’ll be walking around like a zombie.’ – Tia Mowry
‘My rule for the corporate stuff is the same as with my music – I do whatever means I can sleep at night and whatever means I can be dignified.’ – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
‘I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I’m with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That’s basically how we’re doing it.’ – Tina Fey
‘A trick I’ve learned is to eat just a little bit of something that has no carbs and no sugar in it before you go to sleep because it keeps your metabolism going.’ – Kelly Osbourne
‘They say you should never eat before you go to bed, but I’ve found just having a tiny little snack – like half an apple or something like that – before you go to sleep really helps.’ – Kelly Osbourne
‘I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it’s definitely worth it.’ – Big Sean
‘I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I’m on an airplane – I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it’s the only time I can sleep, and it’s the only time I get to read.’ – Kesha
‘I’ve always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in ‘Science of Sleep’ with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.’ – Michel Gondry
‘Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.’ – Sandra Lee
‘My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.’ – Ahmet Zappa
‘I cannot go to sleep without reading.’ – Julianne Hough
‘If we’re on long-haul flights I’ve been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.’ – Wayne Rooney
‘I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.’ – Demi Lovato
‘I don’t get enough sleep so I always have undereye bags.’ – Gabrielle Union
‘I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that’s really what I need.’ – Heather Graham
‘When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.’ – Lance Bass
‘I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.’ – Maria Sharapova
‘I’m always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I’m on the go again.’ – Maria Sharapova
‘When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.’ – Mehmet Oz
‘I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours – be sure they’re not the same eight hours.’ – T. Boone Pickens
‘Well, just coming off the stage and there’s like 180,000 people out there and your adrenaline is going so high, and you’re doing so much and it’s hard to just put your head on the pillow and sleep because it just goes on and on, even after you’re off the stage.’ – Jermaine Jackson
‘I’m going to be who I am. And if you find it offensive, if you find it to be too tough, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.’ – Michael Michele
‘If I sleep in and don’t run, I’ll feel a little bit off because I didn’t do what I was supposed to do. But I’m not going to beat myself up because of it. I’ll just get right back on track.’ – Valerie Bertinelli
‘Antidepressants are very good, but it’s a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you’re in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.’ – Adam Ant
‘A lot of those comics can’t hold down relationships and they’ve got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can’t even talk. All they can do is tell gags.’ – Alexei Sayle
‘What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but… That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!’ – Robert Rodriguez
‘All I do is play football, eat, sleep, play with my kids, play football.’ – Timothy F. Cahill
‘I’m not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I’m either working or I’m not. I’ve gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don’t like it.’ – Curtis Stone
‘These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that’s probably why I’m a bit of an exception.’ – Oscar Pistorius
‘Unfortunately, I’ve gotten so conditioned, it’s hard to sleep past 4 a.m.’ – Joe Scarborough
‘I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what’s going on in the world.’ – Debra Winger
‘All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family – and God’s love – this world would be a far more gentle and better place.’ – Mitt Romney
‘I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!’ – Shawn Johnson
‘I’d said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.’ – John Hawkes
‘When I came into office, people said, ‘Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?’ Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It’s not an issue.’ – Michael Bloomberg
‘Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.’ – Chris Rock
‘At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that’s normal, so I’ll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it’s just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.’ – Sachin Tendulkar
‘It’s not just about acting. I love film, I’m a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don’t let me sleep at night.’ – Drew Barrymore
‘I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don’t eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.’ – Ellen DeGeneres
‘We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.’ – Ellen DeGeneres
‘Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn’t want to have a child. I knew I didn’t want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I’m around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.’ – Ellen DeGeneres
‘You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else’s.’ – Adam Oates
‘I’m always without sleep. I’ve got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.’ – Cate Blanchett
‘I don’t sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I’m a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don’t ever want to wake up.’ – Enrique Iglesias
‘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
‘If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.’ – Marion Cotillard
‘I don’t need much sleep.’ – Marissa Mayer
‘I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I’m an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.’ – Padma Lakshmi
‘We all parent the best we can. Being human, we’re ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.’ – Erica Jong
‘I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It’s something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep… having insomnia.’ – Sean Combs
‘I’m sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.’ – Andrea Arnold
‘My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don’t take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.’ – Shaquille O’Neal
‘Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful – just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.’ – Ben Stein
‘Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.’ – Ben Stein
‘When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.’ – Ben Stein
‘It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.’ – Ben Stein
‘I was tired. I hadn’t slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You’re getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.’ – George McGovern
‘Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.’ – Morrissey
‘I don’t like dirty. That’s why I hate cigarettes. A little bit of alcohol is O.K., but no drugs. And I like to sleep alone because I wake up, I walk around, I bring my computer with me to bed, I have a great time.’ – Jean Pigozzi
‘I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It’s not easy for me to curl up.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
‘I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.’ – Rod Stewart
‘Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You’ll realize this as soon as they’re born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.’ – Ray Romano
‘I’ll read, and then I’ll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don’t fight it.’ – Jacques Barzun
‘I’m doing a lot of stand-up, but not like when you’re living in New York and you can do three sets a night and it’s your life, and you sleep all day and you wake up and you eat with a bunch of other comics and then get ready for the night.’ – Sarah Silverman
‘I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.’ – Nate Ruess
‘Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it’s probably because you need the sleep.’ – Sophia Bush
‘It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.’ – Dave Grohl
‘No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn’t… you work out something. It’s yours. You don’t have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.’ – LeRoy Neiman
‘I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I’m at, because I wake up and have no clue!’ – Carrie Underwood
‘I’d sleep in a little, work out, do laundry, run errands, buy presents for people with birthdays coming up. I like it when I don’t have to be anywhere, and anything I do is my choice.’ – Carrie Underwood
‘I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.’ – Ace Frehley
‘I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.’ – James Franco
‘I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.’ – Adam Sandler
‘I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.’ – Karl Lagerfeld
‘My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It’s arthritic. I have a bad nerve in the back of my eye.’ – Joe Montana
‘For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I’m aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.’ – Adam Lambert
‘I keep a night light on because my room is so full at night, I can’t get to sleep!’ – Sylvia Browne
‘I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married – 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.’ – Adam Levine
‘I always sleep really well, particularly before a race, when the adrenaline’s pumping.’ – Jenson Button
‘I think judgment is from within. It’s not a God judging. Someone who is nasty – they’re the one who has to sleep at night.’ – Jane Siberry
‘You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they’re all pointed in the right direction.’ – Mark Pincus
‘Sometimes if I can’t sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things – it could be an image I’ve seen, or a book I am reading.’ – Georgina Chapman
‘No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it’s too weird to sleep in too late.’ – David Spade
‘Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you’re super-stressed.’ – Elizabeth Hurley
‘I’m irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.’ – Joni Mitchell
‘I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That’s 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.’ – Heston Blumenthal
‘I do like having my ears pierced, because there’s a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and they’re a lot more comfortable to wear – Sometimes I completely forget I’ve got them in and end up going to sleep wearing them.’ – Jennifer Garner
‘Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you’re a kid, you don’t realize that.’ – Larry Elder
‘As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I’ve never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That’s what basketball has done for me. It’s given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.’ – Doug Collins
‘I’ve never enjoyed sleep as much until I got the ‘Today’ job. There is something about early sleep that’s much better than late sleep. I feel myself going to sleep; I don’t just plonk my head on the pillow. It’s a sort of winding-down thing.’ – Evan Davis
‘Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.’ – Andy Murray
‘I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I’m into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.’ – Dominic Monaghan
‘I’m terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I’m paranoid that I’ll be taken advantage of as I sleep.’ – Freema Agyeman
‘Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I’m anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I’m on tour it can be hard to sleep.’ – Natalie Imbruglia
‘If I can sleep in until 9 A.M.’ – Patrick Dempsey
‘A good night’s sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.’ – Chanel Iman
‘Honestly, I try to forget Fashion Week once it’s over. I just want to go home and rest and just forget I even did it. It could drive you crazy! It’s just show after show after show, and you’re missing your family and they feel really far away. You don’t go to sleep. You work for a month.’ – Chanel Iman
‘I try not to go to sleep with makeup, because I think it clogs your pores. I always wash my face with something that contains salicylic acid.’ – Joan Smalls
‘I love to sleep late, and I rarely have the chance to.’ – Izabel Goulart
‘I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.’ – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
‘I love my sleep.’ – Caprice Bourret
‘I’ve never told anyone this before, but I’m an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don’t do it I can’t sleep.’ – Freida Pinto
‘I certainly don’t lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.’ – Ivan Lendl
‘I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I’m a little bit crazy.’ – Mayim Bialik
‘Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I’ve got a life that is demanding my attention, so I’ve gone to prenatal yoga once. It’s such a bummer.’ – Busy Philipps
‘I love being healthy. I get a lot of sleep. I’m a girl who eats. And I feel beautiful no matter how I look. I have my family to thank for that.’ – Lea Michele
‘I’ll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don’t really do the Hollywood party thing. I’d rather watch sports or play videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest.’ – Cory Monteith
‘I went to sleep away camp seven years in a row. I was such a pro.’ – Joe Jonas
‘I love the tour bunks. I can sleep like a baby in those bunks. It really doesn’t bother me at all. A lot of people have a difficult time – they’re like, ‘It’s like a coffin.’ I get in there and I just pass out. You can’t even wake me up.’ – Joe Jonas
‘We found that our kids enjoy those simple adventures we take as a family. I’m driving, my wife’s the copilot and we give one kid a choice of what they want to go do. We eat a lot of bad food and sleep in some interesting hotels.’ – Mark Consuelos
‘I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don’t write, I can’t sleep.’ – Anthony Horowitz
‘I always sleep on my own. I can’t sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I’m very individual and I want my own space.’ – Bruno Tonioli
‘I don’t really relax. When I sleep, I relax.’ – Bryan Cranston
‘I usually sleep just a few hours a night.’ – Jackson Rathbone
‘It’s a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.’ – Len Cariou
‘A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to – you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him – thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn’t. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend.’ – Mika Brzezinski
‘The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I’m tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.’ – Susan Orlean
‘I love ghost stories but I can’t really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can’t sleep.’ – Laurie Holden
‘I am good in bed – I don’t snore. I don’t take the duvet. I just lay there and go straight off to sleep. That’s all you want out of a bloke.’ – Len Goodman
‘I don’t do anything but sleep, when I’m not working. I have no life. I’m no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It’s awesome.’ – Maggie Q
‘I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I’ll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate.’ – Ginnifer Goodwin
‘Sometimes when I’m going to sleep, I think, ‘Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he’s doing and I wonder if he knows me.’ I just always think that’s so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.’ – Emma Roberts
‘People say to me, ‘Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,’ and I think, ‘Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I’m actually there.’ I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.’ – Mireille Enos
‘I used to take Sharpies and draw on my pillowcases, and then go to sleep on them and wake up with red marker from the drool all on my face.’ – Kid Cudi
‘Low lights signal to our senses that the workday may be over and it’s time for sleep, making it hard for an audience to pay careful attention. When we stand behind a big wooden podium, it can feel as if there’s a shield between us and the audience.’ – John P. Kotter
‘I’m a light sleeper, but so long as I’m wearing earplugs, I sleep well.’ – Britt Ekland
‘I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn’t wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.’ – Mario Cantone
‘I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I’ll never stop. That’s my security blanket, that’s what I’m good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.’ – Mayer Hawthorne
‘Holiday? Is like, what? I’m a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That’s my perfect holiday.’ – Melanie Laurent
‘When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.’ – Michael Morpurgo
‘I go out, but not too much. When I’m on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.’ – Wale
‘I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night’s sleep.’ – Angela Kinsey
‘I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.’ – Bill Walton
‘Give me the whole world to run and then I’ll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world’s problems I’d sleep like a baby.’ – Ken Livingstone
‘Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it’s like being unplugged from the earth.’ – Linda Gray
‘Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don’t take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing up in suburbia. Home is where you eat, sleep, read, watch television and ignore your parents. It is not where you go to the ballet and then attend a heated panel discussion about it afterwards.’ – Sloane Crosley
‘If I’m having a bad day in rehearsal, I’ll sleep with my script.’ – Nina Arianda
‘I sleep with my baby blanket, Kiki, that my nana made for me.’ – Rob Kardashian
‘I didn’t come out until 5 or 6 o’clock in the evening. Sleep all day, sleep and cook and eat, stay in the house. That sun is hot, anyway. It ain’t right out there.’ – David Edwards
‘As a comic, I’ve heard gunshots while I’m trying to get to sleep. I’ve performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.’ – Billy Gardell
‘I’ve had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don’t require much sleep. I’m never tired.’ – Nile Rodgers
‘I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I’m trying to sleep.’ – Elizabeth George
‘I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I’m getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.’ – Alex Guarnaschelli
‘I don’t sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind’s still working.’ – Hale Irwin
‘One of my modeling bookers told me that the most important thing is to try to be vigilant about taking care of yourself. Get sleep, don’t be afraid to trim your hair even if you’re trying to grow it out, don’t bite your fingernails, and stay in shape. A lot of it is in the little things.’ – Julia Jones
‘I’m my happiest when I’m really busy. I love feeling like I need one more hour of sleep, or when I’m running around frazzled!’ – Lauren Conrad
‘I can sleep anywhere. I’m like an infant.’ – Lauren Conrad
‘Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.’ – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
‘I sleep for about four hours a night, or day really. I go to bed at, like, 9 A.M., sleep for four hours, then get up and start the day again. I don’t mind if that’s not healthy.’ – Taylor Momsen
‘Sydney in the 1960s wasn’t the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city’s western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the ‘southerly buster’ – the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.’ – Geraldine Brooks
‘I can sleep anywhere. I can fall asleep standing up, literally anywhere.’ – Jenna Ushkowitz
‘No matter how tired I am, I can only sleep for four hours at a time.’ – Micky Dolenz
‘While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dreaming.’ – Andrew Weil
‘If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.’ – Andrew Weil
‘Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.’ – Andrew Weil
‘Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during the day, the sleepier you will feel at bedtime.’ – Andrew Weil
‘Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of such a practice tells your mind and body that the day’s work is over and you are free to relax and sleep.’ – Andrew Weil
‘I like to sleep a lot. I mean I really like to sleep.’ – Agnes Bruckner
‘I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.’ – Junot Diaz
‘I’m so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I’m rarely ever tossing and turning – if I am, it’s really a big deal.’ – Paloma Faith
‘I am an actor, and although I love music, and at times can’t live without it, I eat, sleep, breath, sweat, and bleed acting.’ – Tyler James Williams
‘If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don’t just stick there scowling at the problem. But don’t make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people’s words will pour in where your lost words should be.’ – Hilary Mantel
‘To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can’t imagine what that’s like.’ – Nicole Krauss
‘I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There’s a song on the album called ‘I Think I Should Go to Sleep’ that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.’ – Adam Pally
‘My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.’ – Bruno Latour
‘Sleep is the best time to repair, but it’s hard to get a good night’s rest when we don’t dial the inner chatter down.’ – Kris Carr
‘There’s a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It’s just not the case.’ – Maynard Webb
‘I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I’ll, like, die. So throughout my life I’ve always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I’ve been trained to do that.’ – Matthew Gray Gubler
‘When people visit me at autograph conventions and signings, they always say, ‘You just don’t know how you scared me!’ These people are grown up. They say, ‘When I was a kid, I just couldn’t sleep at night.’ Sometimes they will have babies with them. And they give me their babies, and they take pictures of me holding their baby.’ – Betsy Palmer
‘Remember that we can only in our forebrains handle 5-7 items. Our backbrains can handle massive amounts. So when you’re given a problem, think about it before you go sleep, and chances are you can solve it by the next morning.’ – Nolan Bushnell
‘So it is that one side effect of the HD revolution has been the gratifying and edifying return of the nature documentary – films about the hugely varied forms of life that eat, sleep, stalk, mate, fight, thrive, suffer and struggle on our dear and embattled old Earth.’ – Tom Shales
‘You can’t all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It’s bit by bit by bit.’ – Jen Lancaster
‘If you said to me, ‘Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,’ I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.’ – Kevin McCloud
‘I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.’ – Marian Keyes
‘The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.’ – Tom Hodgkinson
‘Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler’s break. Travel should not be hard work.’ – Tom Hodgkinson
‘No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.’ – Harvey Mackay
‘Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I’m near the seafront I can’t sleep, I can’t eat.’ – Paul McGann
‘Some parents let their kids sleep at other people’s houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A’s and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.’ – Amy Chua
‘Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can’t sleep.’ – Dale Archer
‘It’s much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.’ – Kevin A. Ford
‘It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.’ – Aaron Levie
‘I’m blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.’ – David Rubenstein
‘I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn’t sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don’t even think I’ve used the bed.’ – Marina Abramovic
‘When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.’ – Neil Strauss
‘I don’t get jet lagged that much. I’m so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.’ – Blake Mycoskie
‘Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day.’ – Stan Musial
‘Basically, my mother couldn’t hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing… you can’t get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.’ – Vikram Seth
‘I love to sleep. I’m an excellent, excellent sleeper.’ – Lauren Oliver
‘Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.’ – Keri Russell
‘When you’re not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning… you can’t do that when you have two children!’ – Julie Mehretu
‘As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. It’s a huge deal.’ – Katherine Webb
”The Big Sleep’ is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood’s underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).’ – Manny Farber
”The Big Sleep’ would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart’s relation to the crime.’ – Manny Farber
‘I’ll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that’s going to make me smart and then go to sleep.’ – Jaden Smith
‘During a movie, you lose all ability to focus on your own interests. Your life is in service. After that you just want to disappear, switch off the phone, and sleep and watch movies for a month.’ – Robert Richardson
‘My first memories of life were in rehearsal; that’s why I can sleep through anything.’ – Robert Glasper
‘You can watch ‘Dawn of the Dead’ and still sleep at night. Try that with ‘The Day After’.’ – Max Brooks
‘I’m always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I’m like, ‘I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.” – Mark Ronson
‘In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.’ – Stephen LaBerge
‘When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles’ songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn’t know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with ‘I Will’ and ‘P.S. I Love You.” – Ann Hood
‘I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don’t need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I’ll catch naps in the afternoon, or I’ll take a 20-minute snooze in the office – just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.’ – Matt Mullenweg
‘Being healthy is a complete lifestyle for me. It allows my brain to function at a very high degree so I can comprehend all the new things that are thrown at me. It also allows me to sleep well so that I am rested when I need to perform. Finally, being healthy will hopefully allow me to live a long and fun-filled life.’ – Derrick Rose
‘Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.’ – Josh Hartnett
‘I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.’ – Bruce Forsyth
‘A great Dermalogica facial every few weeks, and lots of sleep over the weekend are essentials. I also drink lots of water which really helps to hydrate the skin and keep it looking fresh.’ – Poppy Delevingne
‘I’m very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it’s still rock n’ roll.’ – Rufus Wainwright
‘In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that’s coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft – and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.’ – Cam Newton
‘Control what you can control. Don’t lose sleep worrying about things that you don’t have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won’t have any control over them.’ – Cam Newton
‘I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it’s a regular thing for me. I’ve died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.’ – Julian Casablancas
‘I don’t sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.’ – Moby
‘I’ve had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I’m on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I’m not very adaptable.’ – Moby
‘I don’t think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.’ – Steven Pinker
‘During the week my alarm wakes me up at 6 A.M., so the latest I can sleep on Saturdays is about 7 A.M.’ – Bobbi Brown
‘Life isn’t a 24/7 merry go round. If it were, you wouldn’t get the 7 hours of sleep necessary to keep you fit and sane.’ – Jacqueline Leo
‘Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that’s very old-fashioned. There’s a whole new generation of people who aren’t defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with.’ – Johnny Weir
‘In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad’s room. What are we training them for? It’s independence, because that’s what being empowered is all about.’ – Sheena Iyengar
‘How do I keep young? Haven’t you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer!’ – Donatella Versace
‘I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It’s so sad that you put it in storage and then never see it again. I am going to sleep in mine after I wear it.’ – Eva Longoria
‘My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.’ – Anthony Bourdain
‘My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It’s arthritic.’ – Joe Montana
‘Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise.’ – Evgeny Morozov
‘I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I’m tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I’m hungry. I can’t bear the thought that I’d have to coincide, make an effort.’ – Felix Dennis
‘I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.’ – Valentino Rossi
‘I’m terrible when I have to fill up free time. My days, if I’m not working, I wake up and figure out a way to kill time until it’s time to go to sleep.’ – Gilbert Gottfried
‘When you happy, you get locked in sleep. You get sleepy happy. I always wanna be on point. I always wanna be aware.’ – DMX
‘I do feel like an outsider, but I don’t lose any sleep over it.’ – Mark E. Smith
‘That’s one thing people don’t know about me – I eat in my sleep. I can’t keep things in the house; I literally have in my refrigerator water, coconut water, orange juice, hemp milk and like, tea bags. And that’s really it. Because I eat in my sleep.’ – Denise Vasi
‘I was a very special child. I did stand-up comedy. I did it all. My family didn’t understand. ‘Aren’t you tired?’ I’m like, ‘No.’ I’m like an insomniac, I hardly sleep, I’m always on the move.’ – Alessandra Torresani
‘I love to work. I know that sounds ridiculous to say because all people love to work, but I love the homework that goes into acting. I love figuring out different ways of playing a scene. I love the energy of being on set. I love not getting enough sleep because I have to wake up early in the morning.’ – Amanda Schull
‘On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it’s time for bed.’ – Margaret Heffernan
‘You get yourself prepared for a big game, you get yourself up for it. Then afterwards you don’t sleep or eat properly.’ – Ryan Giggs
‘When I was 15 or 16 – I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.’ – James McAvoy
‘When I first moved to Los Angeles, I had a really bad run. I would sleep in my car during the day outside the Disney building in Burbank, and that’s where I got my first job, which is really weird. I liked to stay around the studios and kind of get the good vibes going.’ – Camille Guaty
‘When I go away to do a movie, I bring the blanket I’ve had since I was a little girl. It helps me sleep. I also always bring my laptop so I can E-mail friends. And I bring my dog, Beauty, wherever I can.’ – Kirsten Dunst
‘Touring is hard. It’s really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrument and you have to be so good, it’s like boot camp out there; I can’t do anything – just sleep, sing and be very healthy.’ – Gloria Estefan
‘I can’t get married. I can’t fake sleep for 30 years.’ – Elayne Boosler
‘If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn’t eat, sleep or work.’ – Helen Fisher
‘My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.’ – Jeremy Lin
‘It doesn’t need to be the same every day, doesn’t need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I’ve always been very flexible. I don’t care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.’ – Roger Federer
‘I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn’t sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.’ – Felicia Day
‘Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you’re a kid, you don’t realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.’ – Larry Elder
‘If you have to, take a break, go to your corner, get some sleep, but don’t ever give up. You will get there.’ – Colin Cunningham
‘I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.’ – Helen McCrory
‘It’s physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don’t sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me – couple days a month, two hours a day.’ – H. Jon Benjamin
‘Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous – borderline maniacal – amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation.’ – David Agus
‘I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep.’ – Tina Fey
‘I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.’ – Cal Ripken, Jr.
‘I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes – ever.’ – Scott Wilson
‘A large amount of constant activity will get things going. For example, training in the morning will have everything, all the juices flowing by the time you actually get to work. So, when you’re at work, you’ve been already up for an hour or so or two hours, and you’re raring to go where everyone else is still wiping sleep out of their eyes.’ – Henry Cavill
‘When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that’s when it’s like, ‘Yep, this is what it’s all about.’ This is why we don’t sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.’ – Luke Bryan
‘Honestly, I just try to live right, get enough sleep, and drink a lot of water. I do drink a lot of water; I do live by that. And just eating good clean food… I do love all of it. But I do definitely try to eat better organic food.’ – Keshia Knight Pulliam
‘When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block were in the biggest gang in the city. They were my close friends – they showed me the ropes, who to watch out for.’ – Emily Rios
‘When my husband won the Palme d’Or in 2002, I wore the same dress two days in a row. My daughter said, ‘Mom! Did you sleep in your dress?’ But I think it’s cool to wear the same thing. I have to feel comfortable.’ – Emmanuelle Seigner
‘Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hills, make up country songs as I pedal along, sing them, have lunch, have a nap, groan, moan, write a small bit more, cook dinner, feed wifey, open a bottle, or several, slump, sleep.’ – Kevin Barry
‘I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours’ sleep a night. I honestly don’t think I’d be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don’t think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.’ – Jessie J
‘I’m an instinctual actor. I don’t really talk about it. Usually if I get a script and I’m having trouble with it, I go to sleep and I dream about it because I’m super internal with the way I work.’ – Megyn Price
‘My beauty routine is basically plenty of sleep and lots of water.’ – Rebecca Gayheart
‘My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I’m doing.’ – Kate del Castillo
‘I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there’s no room for anything else when you’re in it; you’re just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.’ – Sophie Okonedo
‘I record all night and sleep all day.’ – Damian Marley
‘I am a product of Indian cinema; I’ve grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it’s part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.’ – Karan Johar
‘Considering the regular use of make-up and the fact that I’m under the glare of the harsh shooting lights practically all the time, I’m adamant about using really strong cleansing milk to get the make-up off my skin, and I never sleep with make-up on, however tired I am.’ – Genelia D’Souza
‘I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.’ – Vera Wang
‘I don’t sleep very much. I really like to work, though. I feel like a kid in a candy store.’ – Donnie Wahlberg
‘When you’re on the road a lot, you’re in perpetual search of a good night’s sleep.’ – Artie Lange
‘I’ll be 50 years old and still have to call my mom when I’m home at night. No matter what time, she doesn’t sleep until I do!’ – Cassie Scerbo
‘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
‘When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed. One night, as I did that, there was this gigantic spider next to my pillow. I hit the bed and bounced straight back up When I turned the light back on, it was already gone. I could not sleep in my room for days.’ – Brian Krause
‘I have very vivid dreams – almost always action-adventure. I’m often on the run. I’ve always had dreams. When I was little, I’d go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies – just drifting off to the movies.’ – Sarah Silverman
‘I think if you have a good night’s sleep, you can take on the world.’ – Tamsin Egerton
‘I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can’t sleep if something hasn’t been done or is out of place.’ – Sandra Bullock
‘A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we’re not getting enough sleep.’ – Michael Moore
‘A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.’ – Salman Rushdie
‘I never worry that I’ll die in my sleep, because I’m never asleep!’ – Billy Crystal
‘I’m a baby. I sleep like a baby – I’m up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.’ – Billy Crystal
‘I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.’ – Diane von Furstenberg
‘I don’t care how late it is, I will not go to sleep without washing my face.’ – Christine Lakin
‘I’ll usually stay up a little later than my wife and play Xbox, a little ‘Modern Warfare 3.’ Or I’ll have a friend over, and we’ll play board games until late at night. I’ll always choose fun over sleep.’ – Rich Sommer
‘I remember there were days when – and this is kind of gross – I would sleep in my uniform to save time in the morning and then get up and go to school… it didn’t matter because I didn’t have to impress anyone, and I didn’t have to look cute in class.’ – Stacey Farber
‘WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.’ – Jairam Ramesh
‘I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening. Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can’t be done abruptly.’ – Colm Toibin
‘I don’t sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I’m a good 100-yard-dash guy.’ – Gary David Goldberg
‘I try to get away from the pits as quickly as I can. I speak to my engineer when I get out of the car, usually there’s some press to do, then I will go off and have a shower and get my dry, clean overalls and clothing on. I’ll have a massage, stretch and something to eat. I don’t sleep, but I try to close my eyes for a while.’ – Allan McNish
‘I don’t sleep all that much, but when I do, it’s sound.’ – Gene Simmons
‘Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.’ – Regina Brett
‘When you’re picking up and moving, it does create… well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place.’ – Amy Adams
‘I am a writer – that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.’ – Brian McKnight
‘In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There’s salt if you don’t have salt; you can knock at someone’s door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.’ – Juliette Binoche
‘I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.’ – Jodie Foster
‘I was not born a size 2. I’m not skinny, period. I’m not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else’s neck to get the job.’ – Queen Latifah
‘When I’m doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don’t love every day, I’m not very good at it. That’s called work, and I don’t like work that much.’ – Queen Latifah
‘My face and skin trick is to moisturise well in the winter time, because the weather eats up your skin, and I never go to sleep with make up on. Someone told me it ages you ten years.’ – Kelly Rowland
‘My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and ‘beauty sleep’ didn’t exist anymore!’ – Marisa Miller
‘When I’m awake, I don’t want to go to sleep. I don’t want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don’t want al those thoughts… thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I’m: ‘I don’t want this’. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.’ – Robbie Williams
‘With ‘Survivor’ – I didn’t get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water… plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That’s what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices.’ – Jimmy Johnson
‘You’ve got to be able to pay your bills; otherwise, you’re not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.’ – Alan Moore
‘I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.’ – Donatella Versace
‘I’m not losing any sleep over Dunkin Donuts.’ – Howard Schultz
‘The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It’s too bad because it’s so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.’ – Seth MacFarlane
‘My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can’t live without dreaming – as we can’t live without sleep. We are ‘conscious’ beings for only a limited period of time, then we sink back into sleep – the ‘unconscious.’ It is nourishing, in ways we can’t fully understand.’ – Joyce Carol Oates
‘I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, ‘I’m just tired of the snarky right now. I just want to lie down and have somebody make me laugh for an hour. Entertain me, and then I’m going to sleep with a smile on my face.’ That’s my job; that’s what I do.’ – Jimmy Fallon
‘When I was a kid, you would tune in to ‘The Tonight Show’ before you went to sleep. Johnny Carson. A big treat. I know it’s a privilege of mine to be able to be in people’s homes. So I hope I make everyone proud, including my parents, and do a good job in this.’ – Jimmy Fallon
‘I think of being an actor as kind of a young man’s gig. It’s emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.’ – Kevin Bacon
‘I treat myself pretty good. I take lots of vacations, I eat well, I take supplements, I do mercury detox, I get plenty of sleep, I drink plenty of water and I stay away from drama and stress.’ – Reba McEntire
‘I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it.’ – Mohamed Al-Fayed
‘My sleep is very important, and I have to have at least eight hours every night in order to function properly the next day. Unfortunately, flying through several time zones makes me disorientated, and it takes several days to readjust.’ – Olly Murs
‘I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn’t let me sleep well.’ – Alfonso Cuaron
‘I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.’ – Evangeline Lilly
‘In my old age, it’s kind of funny – at night, what I like to do is watch TV when I go to sleep. And what I really like is to put on a Gene Autry film, because he sings really well. So he sings me to sleep.’ – Phil Everly
‘I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I’d like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.’ – Alan Alda
‘I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.’ – Philip Johnson
‘I’m terrified of writing at night, for then I can’t sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.’ – Italo Calvino
‘Everybody always talks about it, about how you don’t know love until you meet your baby, and you really feel that. There are no words. It was a really wonderful surprise. And there is no way to prepare yourself for the sleep deprivation and what comes with it.’ – Hilary Duff
‘As I get older, my skin shows more of how I am feeling, like a mirror. If I am stressed, or not getting enough sleep, I see it in my face right away.’ – Joanne Froggatt
‘People are impressed with me – because I can sleep for just 45 minutes – I’m used to it.’ – Miley Cyrus
‘Shooting a movie isn’t good for a sleep disorder.’ – Mike Birbiglia
‘Every sleep doctor I’ve talked to said it was an urban legend that you shouldn’t wake up a sleepwalker. All that will happen is that you will get condescended to.’ – Mike Birbiglia
‘I’m generally so disoriented during the week about what I’m doing and where I am – I travel a lot – that when I’m home on a Sunday, I typically try to sleep in as much as I can.’ – Mike Birbiglia
‘Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don’t act out your dreams.’ – Mike Birbiglia
‘In real life, I first started sleep walking in high school because that was when this concept of getting into college first appeared. I had this moment of, ‘Oh! This is going to affect the rest of my life.” – Mike Birbiglia