#asleep

Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is. ↗

— Evan Davis

#asleep #awake #body #brain #called

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

— Heston Blumenthal

#asleep #clock #falling #i #waiting

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast. ↗

— Anne Boleyn

#bring #careful #death #ghost #me

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

— Mason Cooley

#asleep #during #fall #friends #funerals

I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#asleep #attention #definitely #dumb #fall

Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#chi-ro-jin #dreaming #dreams #experience #lucid-dreams

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. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#because #everything #falling #had #i

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#composure #deadline #endowed #enough #fair

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

— Jim Jones

#asleep #down #fall #here #i

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#accustomed #actually #asleep #cannon #circumstances