Dean Rusk Quotes

I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

My sleep is very important, and I have to have at least eight hours every night in order to function properly the next day. Unfortunately, flying through several time zones makes me disorientated, and it takes several days to readjust.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

Sleep is a waste of time.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides.

I usually go to bed pretty late but sleep a full cycle (8 hours).

It is easier to wiggle the toes than reset the biological clock, but that is just a belief that is rooted in superstition. If we could understand that the human body is a network of information and energy, then we would see that the same principles apply everywhere in the body.

Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

I wish it were different, but my body clock wakes me up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. I was even talking yesterday about how, if I want to get enough sleep, I have to be in bed at 10. That means I'm totally a grandma.

A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.

The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth.

Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time.

The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.

They rise in the morning, and they sleep in the dark. And even though nobody's looking, she's falling apart.

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

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

I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.