We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing "Maria" from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.

But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.

The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.

I think even when homeowners love their room, it's still a shock, because you left your house, went to sleep, came home and your room was dramatically and drastically different.

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.