Clock Quotes
Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
- Lillian Hellman
The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.
- Lady Murasaki
and so this tree
Oh, that such our death may be!
Died in sleep, and felt no pain,
To live in happier form again:
From which, beneath Heaven s fairest star,
The artist wrought this loved guitar;
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
There are two kinds of people in the world: the Givers and the Takers. The difference between the two is that the Takers eat well, and the Givers sleep well at night.
- Joy Mills
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
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
- John Hogan
Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
- Jack London
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
- Henny Youngman
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
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one has to stay awake all day.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche