Sleeping Quotes

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams. (Tupac Shakur)
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. View quote
John Cheever
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. View quote
Leonard Cohen
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. View quote
Erma Bombeck
There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. View quote
Ben Affleck
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. View quote
Isoroku Yamamoto
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, Waking in the dawn of the morning, In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, Sleeping in the cold night's arms. View quote
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. (Thomas Browne)
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Be noble, and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping. View quote
Walter Scott
Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens. View quote
Ann Patchett
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. View quote
Bill Cosby
I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race. View quote
Bobby Rahal
There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either. View quote
Della Reese
I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading. (Germaine Greer)
Let sleeping dogs lie. View quote
Robert Walpole
I had taken a partner once before-but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning. View quote
S. M. Stirling
I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming. View quote
Colin Powell