#asleep

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

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

— Devon Werkheiser

#asleep #chores #doing #favorite #getting

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

— Yanni

#everybody #going #into #just #me

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. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#asleep #books #conversation #dead #design

As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, kind of hypnotizing smell. I think it's the smell that makes so many folks fall asleep in the library. You'll see someone turn a page and you can imagine a puff of page powder coming up real slow and easy until it starts piling on a person's eyelashes, weighing their eyes down so much they stay down a little longer after each blink and finally making them so heavy that they just don't come back up at all. Then their mouths open and their heads start bouncing up and down like they're bobbing in a big tub of of water for apples and before you know it... they're out cold and their face thunks smack-dab on the book. That's the part that makes librarians the maddest. They get real upset if folks start drooling in the books ↗

— Christopher Paul Curtis

#falling-asleep #librarian #library #newberry #newberry-medal-winner

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

— Christian Lacroix

#am #anxious #asleep #been #happened

I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out. ↗

— Larry Miller

#bedroom #body #crash #force #hitting

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#awake #dream #intentionally #most #people

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#fall #i #like #movies #my own

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

— Catherine O'Hara

#because #best #best time #everyone #ideas