It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.
—Darby Conley
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
—Joan Klempner
Now I see the secret of making the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
—Walt Whitman
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
—Elias Canetti
Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.
—Stephen LaBerge
You wake up one day and say, "You know what, I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready to have children.
—Ray Romano
The most solid advice… for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
—William Saroyan
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
—Fran Lebowitz
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
—W.S. Merwin
I just can't convince myself that everything is okay again. Rationally, nothing has really happened to me. My days are spent as they always have been, but when I am lying alone at night in my big bed, I'm lying on a bed of pins. I can't sleep anymore.
—Rebecca Bloom in Girl Anatomy
As my eyes slide shut, I'm thinking about second chances, knowing that the one I wished for tonight is lying next to me.
—Rebecca Donovan in What If
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
—Bob Hope
I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
—Mitch Hedberg
If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.
—Yiddish proverb