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- I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f*** [sleep with her] anymore.
- Tina Fey, Bossypants, 2011
- There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
- The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act IV, sc. 1
- Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
- What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 4
- In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VIII, Act III, sc. 1
- Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 2
- O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her and be her sense but as a monument, thus in a chapel lying.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act II, sc. 2
- A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act V, sc. 1
- Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, and look on death itself.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 3
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