Caught Sleeping Quotes

#1. When Apple introduced its game-changing iPhone in 2007, Nokia was caught sleeping on the job. Although it had actually developed an iPhone-style device - complete with a color touchscreen, maps, online shopping, the lot - some seven years earlier. Astonishingly, it never released the product.

Noreena Hertz

#2. To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.

Bob Massie

#3. I was let go after one of the doughnut girls caught me debating the varying merits of the free toys with a four-year-old. What can I say? She was a smart four-year-old. I also thought the Sleeping Beautys were sappy.

Jojo Moyes

#4. With each day he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew that she would win.

Sarah J. Maas

#5. People can't miss what they've never been introduced to.

Colleen Hoover

#6. I work for the nod syndicate. It's a sleepy job. If I'm caught not sleeping on the job, I'll get fired.

Jarod Kintz

#7. I had a dream about you. We were ice fishing in my freezer. I caught a few cold beers, and you wondered if we should drink them, or throw them back because they were babies.

Dora J. Arod

#8. I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece.

Michelle Ryan

#9. She felt as if, while working and sleeping and working and sleeping, she'd aged so rapidly that she'd passed Emile and caught up with her parents.

Jonathan Franzen

#10. What else had I forgotten? What else would come back, knocking me off balance and reminding me how tenuous my grip on reality was?

Susannah Cahalan

#11. In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.

Kathy Sierra

#12. All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Jean De La Bruyere