Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crowded calendar suddenly seem spacious. Three or four hours pass in a moment; I have no idea what time it is, because I never check the clock. If I chose to listen, I could hear the swish of taxis bound for downtown bars or the soft saxophone riffs that drift from a neighbor's window, but nothing gets through. I am suspended in a sensory deprivation tank, and the very lack of sensation is delicious.
Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.
When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.
Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don't die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.
He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.
It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
If you want to hurt me, fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I am sleeping. But nobody, nobody screws with my dog.
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.
I don't like to sleep. I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.
The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy.
I have been accused of sleeping with people, I hadn't met yet.
Did that remind anybody else of something?" "Yes," Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. "How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping.
I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers
I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.
I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.
I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.
I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.
The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.
As a producer, you can't break up wyour own project. It's like sleeping with someone that you don't like. . . Forever.