Top 215 Asleep Quotes

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.

Traditional methods for falling asleep work. Non-taxing, repetitive mental tasks have a lulling effect, and I built those patterns into ‘Sleep’.

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I’m asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that.

I’m not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

I like to keep a book underneath the pillow that I’m not sleeping on so I can reach over and grab it when I wake up. I don’t always do that, but I like to. I try to make sure it’s a book and not my laptop. I also try not to get too excited about who might’ve been trying to contact me while I was asleep.

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.

I truly believe that if I’m out partying and not in the studio, there’s somebody out there who will be. When I’m asleep, somebody else is working. So, I have a lot of sleepless nights.

I’m a naturally upbeat person. Friends sometimes compare me to a labrador puppy, and I take that as a great compliment. I love life, I love people and I’ve got loads of energy right up to the moment when I’m suddenly asleep.

My grammar school caught on to the fact that the reason I was falling asleep in class was that I was doing working men’s clubs till 10 or 11 at nights. My mother was told I shouldn’t do it anymore. Of course, I was bringing in money to the family, so nobody liked hearing that.

My sister discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I’m four years younger. So we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia. Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album.

I get massages almost daily. Sometimes I fall asleep during the massage, but it’s very important to have deep-tissue massages because that type recovers muscles best.

A ‘gossip partner’ is someone you love and trust, with whom you may go through the day’s events with impunity, and with whom you may air your feelings, without them falling asleep.

My brain never stops thinking about basketball, and even when I’m asleep, I’m thinking about basketball. I love it; I love the Xs and Os and the preparation of it.

I’m kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I’m half asleep, but inside I’m going about 100 miles an hour.

The television in my bedroom is always on, so after I get out of the bath and put on my jammies, I sit in bed, curled up in my comforter with Tom, and we watch the news together until we fall asleep.

When I am not acting or practising dance, you’ll find me fast asleep!

It’s not like I’m back for bath-time and bedtime for the children. You’re back when they are asleep and you go out before they wake up. Really, that time when they are young goes all too quickly.

A kitten will run then fall asleep. They’re so unpredictable!

If I’m not asleep, it’s probably all basketball.

I always pretend like I’m nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I fall asleep on the couch in front of the TV. It’s very rare that I see the end of any show.

I’ve developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it’s dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It’s actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what’s killing us.

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.

Even though Laverne and Shirley were always, like, submitting themselves for medical testing and falling asleep on a date or whatever, they always had each other’s back.

If you said to me, ‘Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,’ I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

I like to get up around 5:30 or six – that’s my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

I use my iPhone as an alarm, so when it goes off, I pick it up and casually scroll through whatever emails may have come in while I was asleep.

It has taken me so many years to finally be in my bed and fall asleep for six hours.

I like shopping from the comfort of my bed whilst my husband is asleep beside me.

I’m asleep at midnight. I go to bed really early, so I don’t have a midnight snack.

I’ve never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.

Life is very busy now. I find that in today’s cities, the public is very tired after working the whole day. When concerts start at eight o’clock, the wife pushes the husband to go to the concert, where some promptly fall asleep!

You don’t need to know this – but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I’ll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader – on a bad one, it’s the shipping forecast.

You can research until you’re falling asleep, but that still doesn’t mean you’re really fluent in the material.

Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff.

I fell asleep during some ballet once.

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don’t remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.

I don’t usually have time for TV. When I get home at night, I just want to fall asleep.

When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who’s incredibly serene, I can’t seem to stop sleeping because she’s asleep all the time. It’s a pattern.

I’ve learned to look like I’m listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I’m actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

Sleeping comes easy to me. As soon as I lay my head down, I fall asleep like flicking a switch.

I’ve fallen asleep at red lights before. Not like passed out, but like I’ve put the parking break on and reclined my seat and taken a nap.

Before bed, I just brush my teeth and fall asleep. I don’t usually wear makeup, but if I do, I’ll wipe it off. Then it’s pajamas and falling into bed, no other routine; I’m pretty good at just falling asleep right away.

Between 2 and 5 I’m reading in to find out what’s been going on while I’ve been asleep.

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

My mornings are really about being with my children, so I tend to lay out my outfit the night before when my children are asleep so I can have a quick turnaround time in the morning.

So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Any time I’m in a moving thing, like an airplane, I’m usually asleep before we even get on our way.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

After I saw ‘The Exorcist’ it took me a while before I could fall asleep – that girl’s head turning around and throwing up all that pea soup!

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

I remember trying to write at 1, 1:30 A.M., and just sort of falling asleep. And I think that was actually a good creative state for weird ideas. I shifted to a morning schedule once I had two kids, and I still found that if I slept badly, I actually had better ideas.

For me, I’m a filmmaker because, above all, I’m an explorer. It’s my way of exploring and investigating the problems, the questions, and the mysteries about what it means to be human that vex me most, that keep me up at night, and that, when I finally fall asleep, insinuate themselves into my dreams.

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends’s houses with a list of demands. ‘OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.’

RVD is the most chilled man on planet Earth – if he was any more relaxed, he’d be asleep – and he is a really nice guy, too.

I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night’s ‘Main Event.’ That’s how I started watching SNL. On accident.

I like to be in bed by nine and asleep by ten. I like to wake up early, go to the gym at 7am, that’s my regime.

Instead of cartoons, I was the kid who was watching Food Network, falling asleep to Emeril and Rachael Ray.

My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the ‘Pinkerton’ tour, and ‘Pinkerton’ is the reason why I’m doing this.

I usually fall asleep between 11 P.M. – 1 A.M., and I wake up between 6:30 A.M. – 8:00 A.M.

I don’t watch a lot of TV. I just don’t have a whole lot of time, and my life is so disorganized, I don’t have any kind of consistent schedule. Usually, I pop in a DVD or flip around when I get home at 4 in the morning and try to fall asleep.

I’ve been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I’d fall asleep in my car.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.

I’m totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I’m on the computer, I’m reading, I’m writing, I’m never quiet. My brain is very rarely not engaged. Every now and again I will fall asleep under the parasol in the sun, but that’s a rarity.

A pig’s trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

I’ve never really thought of my real life – you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night – as being a pop star’s life.

No one is depressed when they’re asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you’re really down.

It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep.

If I’m excited about it, I’m pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I’m bored with an idea, you can bet they’re going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I’m fairly excited about.

I watched ‘Predator,’ ‘Predator 2,’ and ‘Predators.’ I fell asleep during ‘Predators,’ but then I watched it again. Not because it was boring! Because I was 10!

Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I’m very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.

North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim’s ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man’s offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

My biggest thrill in life is to read in the afternoon until I fall asleep and take a nap.

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio – I’ve fallen asleep to ‘This American Life’ more times than I can count!

Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.

I can’t sleep in my makeup. Sometimes I’ll be really lazy and try to not think about it and just fall asleep, but I have to take it off and as soon as possible. Sometimes it’ll be quick.

Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you’re a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.

Falling asleep is like landing a plane. It takes time. You’ve got to sort of gradually descend. I think one of the problems with insufficient sleep is people are not very good at predicting how poorly they are doing when they are under-slept.

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.

When I get on a course that’s not very good, that’s not tough, I fall asleep. Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there’s a tough situation.

I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair – which she regards as hers, of course – I tend to leave her there and take the other one.

Our television set was in the bedroom. I can picture my mother fast asleep, exhausted from driving my brothers around. I can picture the Maple Leafs playing the Canadiens. One or the other would always be on the CBC on Saturday night.

The last thing I do before bed is think I should take my contacts out. Then I fall asleep.

There were actually a couple of times I fell asleep at the gym on accident after a workout, but it was still late enough, so I went home and caught some sleep.

Someone who’s awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

I’m not a late-night person. After 10 P.M., I’m falling asleep. If I’m out at that time, I’ll be the one falling asleep at dinner.

I love zombies. I don’t know how else to answer that… I have trouble falling asleep, so there are certain scenarios I use in my head to relax. I find sniping zombies very relaxing.

I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.

People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it’s the most frustrating thing. I can’t help it. What am I gonna do?

Having quiet time mentally is key in harnessing our intuition, and being awake when others are asleep allows for us to be with our thoughts.

I have strange blood sugar levels. I get very odd if I don’t eat. I either want to hit someone, cry, or fall asleep.

I’ve seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

You know that feeling when your leg falls asleep and you can’t really feel it or move it? Well, that’s what my legs feel like all the time, so being fluid and graceful has been difficult.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

For writing, I get up early in the morning – 5 o’clock, 4:30. I’m a morning person… So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.

In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there’s a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone’s asleep, they go erasing the past. It’s like a bad Ray Bradbury story – ‘The Memory Erasers’.

I fell asleep during ‘The Dark Knight Rises.’ I fell asleep during ‘The Hunger Games,’ all of them. I cannot stay awake. As soon as a movie starts, I’m asleep!

I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here’s what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It’s like that constantly. It’s not painful, but it’s so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly.

I’ve written in the middle of a conversation or the grocery store or at another band’s concert or in the last moments before falling asleep. It’s pretty unpredictable. I think it’s always flowing, and sometimes I’m not listening. There’s no formula for when I’m going to be able to be a good listener to myself.

Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven’t even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can’t… not for the longest time.

As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged – wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all the stuff that has to get done in the course of a day. When the children are asleep in their beds, I can go where I really need to go in my head.

I work really, really hard and it’s challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you’re supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I’m falling asleep, like I’ll go crazy if I don’t do it.

It’s not difficult to take care of a child; it’s difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child. Trying to clean up the kitchen after you’ve had a baby is a nightmare because you have to wait for the baby to be asleep, you’re exhausted, and you really don’t want to clean up the kitchen now.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I’m asleep. But it never works.

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life’s questions is often in people’s faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people’s faces. People’s faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

I fall asleep to a movie every night! I don’t have a go-to movie, but I like Netflix or whatever I can find. Usually, it’s just noise in the background; I think it’s damage from living in New York, where it’s so noisy.

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

If nobody needs me – and usually, these days, they don’t – I’ll fall asleep until around midnight. Then I go upstairs and work until 4 A.M., and that’s when I go back to bed for good. It suits me.

The moments before I fall asleep are when my list of things to do attacks my brain.

I’m usually alone or asleep, at home.

Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution.

From the time I roll out of the cot at 6 A.M. to the time I fall asleep after midnight, I get to do what I love nonstop.

I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that’s normally asleep.

Try as I might, I cannot fall asleep before 2am. I sometimes try, putting tea towels over the clocks and forcing myselt to go to bed at 12.30am. I never win.

No one warns young people to follow Adam’s example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him. We need more of this ‘being asleep’ in the will of God.

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I’ve been asleep.

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o’clock.

Dillian Whyte hasn’t got any power. He hit me with his best shot, didn’t even bother me, and he knows that. I hit him with my best shot and he was asleep and I hit him with another one and I woke him up.

When I joined Granada – which, you don’t want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time – the BBC was firmly asleep.

I easily fall asleep during a movie.

You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.

I’m also a great believer in the dream life; that while we’re asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

I had one day with him, and he was asleep in the scene, but I told my entire family that I was in a scene with Michael Caine.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

I play music on my phone to fall asleep when I’m on the road and as an alarm clock to wake me up, so I need it nearby – but there are never outlets by the bed in hotels!

When I was a kid, I used to love playing football so much that I genuinely wouldn’t be able to fall asleep at night.

Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.

My older sister was into grime, so she got me into it. When I was ten, I begged her to take me to my first house party, where there were decks and a mic. I ended up falling asleep standing up in the corner.

When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.

There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time.

No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

It’s impossible to get to a billion dollars by endorsement deals. The biggest deals only take you so far. It’s how you make money when you’re asleep that’s going to get you there.

I never worry that I’ll die in my sleep, because I’m never asleep!

I’m introverted, and all my friends make fun of me because all I do is work out and play golf. I’m a grandma: stay in most nights and asleep by 9:30.

Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family’s asleep and I’m alone, I think about the next day’s writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It’s in my blood; it’s in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I’d fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

I read till I fall asleep. Daytime actually I feel guilty reading – I always feel I should be doing something else!

I can sleep anywhere. I can fall asleep standing up, literally anywhere.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

The gross demonstration of caffeine is that it prevents you from falling asleep. The slightly more nefarious aspect of caffeine is that maybe you can fall asleep, but we know that the depth of deep sleep you’re getting if caffeine is still in your system is severely less.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

Good dreams don’t come cheap, you’ve got to pay for them and If you just dream when you’re asleep this is no way for them to come alive… to survive.

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.

I buy a lot of random books, and it’s really hard to immediately fall asleep if I’ve been staring at a screen, so reading and trying to put my phone away maybe an hour before I go to sleep are two of my go-to strategies before bed.

Christian music, gospel music, sometimes you’ll fall asleep at church but music wakes you up, the song can speak to you in a way that’s puts a fire in you. So if I’m working with a mainstream artist I’m trying to find a bigger purpose.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I’ve been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I’m a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. And socialist, well yes, of course, it’s not a fashionable word, but I am very much of the Left.

I don’t sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.

I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.

When the holidays approach and the weather turns cold, you spend your nights watching and rewatching saccharine movies until you fall asleep, hoping for some gleam of happiness or catharsis that never comes, a version of life that looks like a Hallmark movie or where your idealized prince finally shows up.

I usually think to do pep talks on Twitter if I’m on the road, at home and my girlfriend is out of town, or if I’m at home and up later then my girlfriend and our dog Bizzy – like, if they’re both asleep but I’m kind of wired.

A lot of people are tired around here, but I’m not sure they’re ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.

I fell asleep once while washing dishes. I hallucinated prolifically – like, squirrels knitting whole sweaters! It was like my dreams inserted themselves in my waking life.

I believe I am blessed with the ability to fall asleep just about anytime, anywhere. I can sleep on a flight, on a couch, and even on a bus.

The whole time I was on ‘Grey’s,’ I’m still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son, because he never saw me during that time. By the time he got up, he’d see a dent in his pillow, but by the time I got home, he was already asleep. So for three years, he had a daddy that he never saw because I had to work.

I once had a therapist fall asleep on me. That really wrecks your self-esteem.

When I was 17, I grew from being something like 5’2” to 6 foot – I grew a lot – and I don’t remember growing… I feel like the same thing is true of writing. You’re waiting for Santa Claus to come down the chimney, but you just fall asleep at some point, and then the magic happens.

I’m hopefully in bed and asleep by 10:30. I’m usually yawning by 7:30, 8. You go to the gym and push yourself so you’re knocked out by nighttime.

I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

I’m not a big fan of self-driving cars where there’s no steering wheel or brake pedal. Knowing what I know about computer vision and AI, I’d be pretty uncomfortable with that. But I am a fan of a combined system – one that can brake for you if you fall asleep at the wheel, for example.

I’ve never been burgled. I don’t quite know what I would do if it was the dead of night and there was someone in the house, and my kids were asleep upstairs.

I could fall asleep at 10:30 watching ‘Hill Street Blues.’ I might wake up at 1 A.M. and have a riff in my head.

I finished ‘Heartsick’ with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised.

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody’s asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall asleep. It is not a very violent storm, but what’s happening is I am just thinking about different ideas and maybe things I’ve seen that day that I think might make a good story.

O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

I am a very bad sleeper. There are lots of times when I’m trying to fall asleep at someone’s place, and if they don’t have blackout curtains, I am waking up with any amount of sunlight.

I have a really hard time falling asleep. I have a lot of thoughts running through my head.

I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I’m lying in bed I think up stories. That’s where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I’m reading – sometimes reading someone else’s stories will make me think of one of my own.

I have trouble falling asleep. I have trouble shutting my mind off.

The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it’s not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you’re busy buying groceries and when you’re fast asleep. It’s a curse.

In Louisiana, you can drive when you’re 15 – you could get your driving permit. I remember, during driver’s ed, I fell asleep at the wheel one day. I was tired. The guy shook me and switched and said he was getting into the driver’s seat. I didn’t fail, so I guess you can fall asleep occasionally. It’s Louisiana.

Growing up, I would take out books from the school library and hide them in the hamper. I’d wait until my parents fell asleep, and then I’d sneak into the bathroom, turn on the light, and dig out the books and read all night.

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

My guilty pleasure is vanilla cupcakes! I love cupcakes! I love cupcakes. When it’s really bad, it’s 12 per day. I’ve fallen asleep with cupcake in my mouth, like, frosting all over my mouth. More than – several times.

You know the cycling federation in the U.K. did a good job of going around schools and scouting young riders. The Belgian federation is not like that. It is asleep.

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

The only time I don’t work is when I am asleep.

I’m the kind of person who’ll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.

Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Your body can’t switch off tired. People fall asleep behind the wheel all the time.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

I know when there’s lots of stuff racing around in my head it can be hard to sleep and stay asleep. And one of the biggest things that used to keep me awake at night was worrying about my gender and sexuality.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it’s a video game, and it’s not. It is very, very dangerous, and it’s tough.

Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go to San Diego every day to work and then come back. And she would come home when I was an infant long after I was asleep.

Oh God, I’m going to get in trouble for saying this, but I grew up falling asleep in church because I was tired from watching horror movies late at night.

On any given day, my father wasn’t likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that a man’s work was important, that he must pursue it tirelessly, and that it might require certain sacrifices, like being away from the warmth and comfort of home.

To avoid congestion, I get up at 5:10, grab a slice of raisin toast, and leave the house at 6 A.M. My husband, Tim Dunn, who works for an environmental agency, is still asleep when I slip out, and I find that rather annoying.

It’s strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While we’re sleeping, we’re vulnerable – and, at least on the outside, supremely unproductive.

My mum was obsessed with dress… so, in my house, there was always the obsession about aesthetics. She was obsessed with the idea that a beautiful movie is the one where you’re so involved you won’t go to the toilet during it, or you’ll fall asleep with your make-up on after.