#sleeping

I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#around #go #go home #home #i

I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep. ↗

— Anna Sheehan

#legends #sleeping-beauty #young-adult #beauty

A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#sleeping-beauty #beauty

I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#exit #fine #i #least #low

Let sleeping dogs lie. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#lie #sleeping

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore. ↗

— Cameron Dokey

#retellings #sleeping-beauty #beauty

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. ↗

— Isoroku Yamamoto

#done #fear #fill #giant #him

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#driving #i #if i could #read #showering

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. ↗

— Amy Grant

#also #because #being #break #during

A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you're actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that's a big deal. A very big deal. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#acknowledge #actually #baby #big #big deal