Toyah Willcox Quotes

Sleep has been provided by nature to do the body's healing work, and it takes seven or eight hours for this process to happen. Commit to getting at least seven to eight hours of good quality sleep every night to keep your body and hormones in balance.

It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.

Shift work, where the body clock is continuously changed, is really deleterious on many levels - from psychology to physiology.

A 12-hour shift is physically exhausting. You give multiple shots, wearing heavy jewellry and make-up - and end up with dark circles, acne, and skin problems.

I never have anything go wrong. Never have a backache. Never have a headache. Never have anything else.

When you don't sleep, you start to hallucinate, and that's not good.

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.

There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.

I'm in the pink of health except for the weight I put on because I'm now a stressful producer. But being the daughter of an alcoholic makes you four times more susceptible to becoming one.

I was drinking so much coffee and Red Bull just to keep going it screwed me.

Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.

I don't like any of it. I'm sick and tired of menopause.

The amount of sleep you get has an impact, not just on how you feel the next day, but it has an impact on your long-term health as well.

It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.

Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health.

Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.

Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses.

If you look in the mirror and think, 'Boy, my body needs a good dose of middle management,' keep in mind that tummy fat could be the result of many things.

Sleep doesn't seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it's not all great feelings.

Getting regular restful sleep is an essential key to staying healthy and vital, yet it is so often neglected or underemphasized.

The most important thing to do for me physiologically is to sleep when I'm tired. I love to sleep and it's very restorative.

I had dinner recently with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours of sleep that night. I didn't say it, but I thought to myself 'If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting'

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

If I start to feel run-down or like I'm going to get sick, I know I need sleep - stat. I can sometimes keep a sickness at bay with a good night's sleep!