Mark Twain Quotes

An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm. I ran.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

There are only three things that stop me sleeping: hunger, the odd bad dream and cramp in the arches of my feet - it's crippling, as if somebody's trying to tie your foot in a reef knot.

If Mourinho loses 4-1, he doesn't sleep well.

I have trouble going to sleep at night, because you always get the feeling that there is another thing you could do.

My idea of hell is to sit with a pair of curling tongs or have my hair blow-dried: I fidget like a 12-year-old boy.

Sometimes I don't sleep well.

Don't talk to me about getting comfortable. It makes me uncomfortable.

When I'm trying to get bread to prove, I am itching; I am so impatient.

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

Wow, you're never allowed to sleep late again. You're crankier than a fat guy in stilettos.

And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.

If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.

In my personal life, I will do whatever it takes to make a situation comfortable if I sense - if I'm talking to someone [and] I sense there's a silence, I'll try to fill that gap. It makes me very anxious when things get uncomfortable.

I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so noisy, I can't sleep.

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.