Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.
I battle to fall asleep at night. My mind races every other night. I have always been like this, for as long as I can reminder.
You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it. I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because the audience is a huge spectrum of people, from people who are introspective to people who just want to be scared and have fun, and all the points in between.
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.
Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.
The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.
But I really can't and I actually don't like switching off because I worry that I might lose my thread, or something. I fall asleep and I hope to God that I'm going to dream about it, because then I don't have to put it down.
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.
I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions.
Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite
She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.
Every night she had fallen asleep dreaming about that kiss, and each kiss after.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.
Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions. . . If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.