#sleeping

After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#another #asked #country #family #great

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#book #comfortable #days #did #different

For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does! ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#does #eight #give #i #know

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either. ↗

— Della Reese

#fortunate #hungry #i #less #mean

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#am #backpack #bed #being #bus

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. ↗

— Will Smith

#excel #guy #i #know #other

I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#funny #humor #intense #intensity #love

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. ↗

— John Cheever

#i #i do #mind #sleeping #understand

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#refuge #sense #sleeping #superiority #world

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. ↗

— Pierre Trudeau

#beast #call #elephant #every #friendly