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- Nov 07, 2020
Sleep Quotes
Rest, routine, and the odd things said half-asleep.
This sleep quotes collection is refreshingly ordinary: sleep-talking material for jokes, a strict weekday sleep schedule, sleeping on the floor of a plane to hear the engine, and the specific comfort of stretching out diagonally across the mattress when no one's there to object. See Day for the other half of the routine.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sleep is probably my favorite activity. I wrote this piece out of gratitude that I'm able to sleep well as an offering to people who don't.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of physical humanity.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't usually sleep if I'm listening to music. It seems to fire up my mind, and I keep engaging with it to see what it's doing.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked the idea of being a father, to have a child, and finally Francesca arrived, and now the house is insane because she cries all day, and at night, she doesn't let us sleep.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
No aspect of our biology is left unscathed by sleep deprivation. It sinks down into every possible nook and cranny. And yet no one is doing anything about it.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
When did a doctor prescribe, not sleeping pills, but sleep itself? It needs to be prioritised, even incentivised.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives in an underslept state, not realizing it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020