Billy Boyd Quotes

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

I love to sleep late, and I rarely have the chance to.

I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.

Parents go to sleep early. This is universal.

I basically shop in my sleep!

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.

If you talk in your sleep, don't mention my name. If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came.

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

She sleepwalked from moment to moment, and whole months slipped by without memory, without bearing the faintest imprint of her conscious will.

Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.

We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.

To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in the congested traffic of a modern community. It is about time to abandon judicial somnambulism.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.