Top 100 Nap Quotes
#1. My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.
Armie Hammer
#2. So rather than spending my golden years searching for the meaning of my life, I rather believe I'll just keep on trying to make some meaning out of my life right up until I pitch over nose first into the dirt for that little nap. - Tom King (I Ain't Afraid of No Grim Reaper)
Tom King
#3. I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
Martha Stewart
#4. Zane looked down at him and yanked away the pillow and then all the covers. "Ty, I mean it. Do not go to sleep," he said firmly.
"Nap nazi," Ty accused miserably.
Abigail Roux
#5. American men are so embarrassed about napping," she said. "They think it is some sort of feminine indulgence. I detest a man who can't nap.
Peter Cameron
#6. Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.
Gene Perret
#7. I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?
Cara Buono
#8. I'm a fan of the power nap. About twice a week, I'll stretch out on a little couch in my office for 20 minutes. I don't need a wake-up call; I pop right up, feeling refreshed.
Tim Finchem
#9. Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home.
George Clooney
#10. In the last year of my presidency, I travelled 200 days out of 365. You have to lead a very disciplined life. To be able to do that, I need a lot of sleep. But I have no problems sleeping. On long days, I can easily take a nap for 20 minutes in the afternoon.
Martti Ahtisaari
#11. Think I'll go eat me a doughnut and take me a nap.
Ray Bradbury
#12. It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.
Maxwell Maltz
#13. I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.
Viswanathan Anand
#14. It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.
Katherine Applegate
#15. After listening to "Machine Gun" I have to take a nap.
Lenny Kravitz
#16. I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place I can read without straining my neck, and I take an afternoon nap, which is my reward for making enough money from my writing now not to have to work. I never get up in the morning before 11.30.
Martin Millar
#17. School means work and work means death. Let's all go take a nap.
Emma Shannon
#18. But why didn't you just ask me?" I set down my fork and glare at her.
"Because you were sleeping," She says, taking a sip if Chardonnay.
"I was taking a nap, Mom. It wasn't intended to be some kind of Disney fairy-tale hundred-year snooze.
Alyson Noel
#19. Sometimes you need to give dishes a nap.
Jose Andres
#20. The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action. It makes me want to take a nap.
Lena Dunham
#21. I'm going to beat Alexis Davis then take a nap
Ronda Rousey
#22. She drifted towards the bedroom, on her way to have a bath or take a nap or start a war.
Maggie Stiefvater
#23. He preferred the term "study" to "office," as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, you could, well, study, or nap or read, or stare into space thinking long thoughts. You could certainly work, but it wasn't a requirement.
Nora Roberts
#24. Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
A.A. Milne
#25. Curran.
"You're taking a nap? Come on Kate, I need you for this fight, Stop lying around."
You sonovabitch. I rolled to my feet and grabbed my sword. "You must think you're funny.
Ilona Andrews
#26. [The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ...
Soren Kierkegaard
#27. Anne, on her way to Orchard Slope, met Diana, bound for Green Gables, just where the mossy old log bridge spanned the brook below the Haunted Wood, and they sat down by the margin of the Dryad's Bubble, where tiny ferns were unrolling like curly-headed green pixy folk wakening up from a nap.
L.M. Montgomery
#28. Nico: With great power, comes the great need to take a nap.
Rick Riordan
#29. I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.
Jenny Eclair
#30. With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.
Tori Spelling
#31. Here are a few things I've learned from Albert
1. Any food is fair game until it is actually swallowed by someone else.
2. Take a nap whenever you can.
3. Don't bark unless it's important.
4. Chasing one's tail is sometimes unavoidable.
Lisa Kleypas
#32. Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log.
Ellen DeGeneres
#33. There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#34. It's not easy taking care of one's self, determining nap lengths and all that, but with two people it's a manageable job.
Jonathan Ames
#35. The only reason why world war 2 happened was because Chuck Norris decided to take a nap.
Lars Anderson
#36. Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.
Feist
#37. Have you slept yet?'
'Sure. I took a power nap on the way over.'
'Didn't you drive there?'
'Yeah. Other drviers kept waking me up. Car horns should be illegal.'
- Charley & Cookie
Darynda Jones
#38. I can tell you I can work on four or five hours of sleep a night and cat nap all day, and I can go for 8 or 10 days on the road, and it doesn't seem to affect me.
Newt Gingrich
#39. Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.
Rachel Cohn
#40. As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.
Misha Collins
#41. EPIC NAPPING! A NAP THAT WILL BE IMMORTALIZED FOR ALL TIME! A NAP FIT FOR THE KINGS OF ALL BEASTS!
Dixie Lyle
#42. This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour nap in the afternoon, and at night go out and have that life. Go out and see your friends and eat tapas and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place.
Anthony Bourdain
#43. I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.
Cassandra Duffy
#45. With great power ... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
Rick Riordan
#46. It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.
Sherman Austin
#49. Nice," he says. "I'm jealous."
"Of my nap?"
"Of your pillow.
Robin York
#50. I usually sleep ten to eight hours per night. I sometimes also have a nap in the afternoon.
Romain Grosjean
#51. I built a studio in my house so I can be with my kids. I go out to my approval meetings [for my collection] while they nap, but at least I can sing [at home] while they sleep at night.
Jessica Simpson
#52. Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really.
Dave Barry
#53. Eva. "Hugh swore he checked the room when he put Liam down for a nap, even though nobody had been in there since you got him up this morning. I swear to you, the house was locked up tight."
Locked.
Pia's head came up. "Oh, shit.
Thea Harrison
#54. We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words.
Jean Parker
#55. What Now? Talk a walk Start your swipe file Go to the library Buy a notebook and use it Get yourself a calendar Start your logbook Give a copy of this book away Start a blog Take a nap
Austin Kleon
#56. Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you're a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.
Jordi Molla
#57. Sometimes it's not a spiritual problem; you just need a nap!
Pam Farrel
#59. I could have taken a nap instead of waiting for you to finally show up. What took you so long human? Did you walk?
-Grimalkin
Julie Kagawa
#60. I'm surprised he doesn't reach for a wet nap to rid his hands of my general poorness.
Victoria Scott
#61. What are you doing? Taking a nap?"
-Ben Mackenzie
Mandy Hubbard
#62. Robertsons love Sundays! The most important thing we do is gather together with our church family for worship, teaching, and fellowship. After church, we like to have a nice lunch of roast, vegetables, and definitely rolls or biscuits. And I love catching a nap when I can.
Kay Robertson
#63. With great power ... comes need to take a nap. Wake me up later
Rick Riordan
#64. I roll my eyes. Well, if I plan on doing anything exciting I promise to give fair warning so just ... take a nap or something.
Leigh Bardugo
#65. I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope
#66. It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.
Gaston Bachelard
#67. Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.
Sandra Cisneros
#68. With great power comes a great need to take a nap.
Rick Riordan
#69. With great responsibility ... comes great need to take a nap.
Rick Riordan
#70. I'm a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I'm a tired person.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#71. Guess I am going to take a man-nap. Wake me up when there is food.
Vann Chow
#72. A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a long nap, they will find apprehension, disquiet, and fretfulness waiting their directed attention.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#73. River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer's day. Calm as a gentle nap in the sun. Even when girls were fainting and men were slitting their throats in front of you.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#74. The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.
Mary Karr
#75. Much more prayer is called for, clearly, but first I will take a nap.
Marilynne Robinson
#76. It had been a perfect nap
the sort a man runs into now and again by chance ...
Charles Finch
#77. Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.
Tom Hodgkinson
#78. That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.
Sandra Cisneros
#79. Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.
Louis C.K.
#80. Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#81. My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
Vikram Seth
#82. If she needs a nap, I could just hang out and wait for her to wake up right? I could like down near her, reassure myself that she was really here and we were really doing this and just ... what? Touch her hair? Holy shit. Had I always been this creepy?
Christina Lauren
#83. People who work hard often work too hard ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
Alice Walker
#84. She had the the most extraordinary capacity for falling asleep at a moments notice. Any kind of pause in the routine was an excuse for a nap. I swear she was more cat than human.
Chris Priestley
#85. Six o'clock means very little to a three-year-old. It works better to say "after dinner," or "as soon as the baby takes her morning nap.
Joanna Faber
#86. There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Ovid
#87. My mantra is always, "Take a nap first, Matt! Then think." It's silly, but it works.
Matthew Moy
#88. I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.
He is sweeter than soap.
He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,
which can't even bark ...
Mary Oliver
#89. It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
Cameron Bright
#90. A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.
Henry Miller
#91. Avoid activities outdoor.If you like to take an afternoon nap sleep under bed net. So these are measures that can be done to minimize [the] chance of infection [with Zika virus].
Margaret Chan
#92. It's funny because everyone says you sleep when baby sleeps or you take a nap when baby takes a nap. That's true when you have one. When you have two, that is not true.
Vanessa Lachey
#93. Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one?
Kelly Braffet
#94. Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job.
Jay Leno
#95. Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole
world had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then
lay down with our blankets for a nap.
Robert Fulghum
#96. On a perfect day in your perfect little world (and it's always perfect) there is breakfast time, playtime, lunchtime, nap time, snack time, dinnertime, bath time, story time, and bedtime. There is time for everything when you are the timekeeper.
Karen Maezen Miller
#97. I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.
Elliott Smith
#98. Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.
Tom Hodgkinson
#99. I won't take a real nap. I have this halfway place, a rest stop on the road to sleep, where I can stay for hours. I don't even need to close my eyes, just stay safe under the covers and breathe.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#100. I got home from work today and took like a one hundred hour nap. No you did not. You'd be very sick if you were taking one hundred hour naps. That's a coma! If you said you took a coma after work I'd be able to follow the story.
Dane Cook
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