Don King Quotes

It's really fascinating stuff, the science of sleep. We don't think of it in terms of that, but it really is.

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.

Sleep is very precious to me. I love to sleep.

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

I like to sleep a lot. I mean I really like to sleep.

It's strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While we're sleeping, we're vulnerable - and, at least on the outside, supremely unproductive.

Restful sleep is a key ingredient to living a miraculous life. I'm not saying we need eight or ten hours a night to feel fully rested. In fact, sometimes less sleep can be more restorative than many hours. The key is to have real sleep... the drooling-on-the-pillow kind of sleep.

I try to get eight or nine hours of sleep a night, and if I don't, I'll make sure to take a nap.

Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.

I can go round the clock without sleep.

In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

Sleep is God. Go worship.

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

Sleep is underrated. Sleep!

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.