Top 90 Nap Quotes

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.

In a first pregnancy, you don’t have a child yet, so you can nap and see movies and exercise. The notion of ‘baby’ is abstract. You look at the ultrasound and don’t really understand that the creature you’re seeing is soon going to be your roommate.

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it’s not a waste of time.

I don’t have a telly in my bedroom. I think the bedroom should be saved for more appropriate things, like sleeping, eating biscuits, sorting through your knicker drawer and, of course, the thing that should only be done with someone you know really well – naps.

Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers’ happiness – or what management types refer to as ’employee satisfaction results’ – might improve.

I love an afternoon nap.

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

I’m sorry, man, but I’ve got magic. I’ve got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time – and this includes naps – I’m an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

With my babies, if I wanted to go pick them up I would just go in the room in the middle of the night, but Nicky is very much on a schedule. This is nap time, this is tummy time, so I’m just kind of like, ‘Okay.’

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That’s a big one, the napping on demand!

I wouldn’t say I was grumpy. It’s more pathological – I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.

I like Aurora, ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ because she’s just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life – lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.

I’m an early riser, which is sometimes a drag when I have late-night concerts. But I prefer to wake up early – say, 8:30 – and maybe take a nap during the day.

If you have young kids, around 3 o’clock is a good time for a party because naps are over, and little ones can eat an early dinner.

If you’re tired, you shouldn’t make yourself exercise. Take a nap instead. It’s about getting an appropriate amount of work and rest. I get very crabby if I’m not well-rested.

Some essential oils, a nice massage followed by a power nap helps me start my Sunday on the right note. After a week full of running around, this becomes the perfect rejuvenation.

I never wanted to nap. I was always mature for my age. I wanted to put on a dress and look cute. Everyone else can nap, but I’m going to be a princess over here!

I would work a morning shift at the gym, nap, then go do a comedy show or class.

Finally, you get the job, and you think you’ll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

I’m not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and hear it in my voice. When working 14-hour days, I have to go home, go to sleep, and wake up in time for crew call. I hate naps. They throw me off the rest of the day.

My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.

I know how to deal with jet lag, and I know just how much rest I need and when I need to take naps. When you walk on stage, you need your brain working at its highest and most fully-functioning, so it’s not always easy, but I sort of figure it out.

A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That’s consistent with who I am. I don’t pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.

Massages are my favorite. Sometimes just getting myself outside for a walk if I’m really busy can be an indulgence. I love taking naps. I love to stay up too late with close friends. I believe in everything in moderation. I take what I like and leave what I don’t.

If I’m stuck in the midst of a story, I take a nap. It often works, and if it doesn’t, I still feel better.

I get at least six hours each night, meaning I am generally in bed at 9pm. Then, to top up my sleep, I take a nap as soon as I get home from the studio each morning at 9.30am. Although my sleep is broken into two chunks, this makes up a seven-hour total that keeps me going.

Looking at 70 from 49, I don’t see it slowing me down. Maybe I’ll need a nap during the day! I’m thinking when I’m 85 I’ll settle down a bit. But I’m going to fight, kicking and screaming, every step of the way.

If I don’t get eight hours, I can’t function, so I’m a great believer in power naps.

Here’s how it goes: I’m up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it’s lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it’s time to have a drink.

I always think if I’d had kids that I’d manage them like I do my dog Margaret: camps, playdates, naps, and lots of snacks. They’d all be fat.

To have power naps! In the past months, I have learned to have them everywhere I go, and that is key for my health. To eat healthy food is also essential – especially fruit, for the vitamins.

I can nap with hustle and bustle around me; I can nap quietly all by myself. It’s something I’ve always been good at.

I was such a messer. I would go to my room and pretend to study, but I’d really just take a nap. I was suspended twice as I was such a brat, but the nuns loved me so I got away with it for as long as I could.

Fashion week is very tiring, so I take a little nap backstage before the hair and make-up madness starts.

I can’t take a traditional yoga class or anything. I’ll just lay down and take a nap on the mat.

I kind of like rainy weather at nighttime. I used to take naps in rainy weather.

I will occasionally take power naps on weekends and agree that they can be re-energizing.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

I take a lot of naps.

I’ll read, and then I’ll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don’t fight it.

Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

If I am exhausted, I will pamper myself, take an extra nap, eat well, take a spa treatment.

I usually sleep ten to eight hours per night. I sometimes also have a nap in the afternoon.

On my real vacations, I meet up with friends and we go for walks on the beach. We stroll through old cities, swim in the sea, and take afternoon naps. We shop, lunch, and, yeah, drink.

I tell you, my naps are epic. They win awards.

I prefer eight hours of sound sleep at night. But on days when I can’t, I try not to fuss about it and keep taking power naps through the day.

After I’ve knitted for a while, I feel like I just woke up from a nap. And what’s awesome is that then you have a product! You have something you made with your hands!

Hosting is work. It means you don’t get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I’m talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

I really didn’t realise until I got back the work that goes into a performance. You’re like an athlete – if you haven’t been practising things tighten up. I had to do a lot of practice work, but I got through it. Even when I was 21 I would have a 40-minute nap on the day of a show, and I will still do that.

I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.

I get by with power naps.

Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hills, make up country songs as I pedal along, sing them, have lunch, have a nap, groan, moan, write a small bit more, cook dinner, feed wifey, open a bottle, or several, slump, sleep.