Top 100 Quotes About Naps
#1. If I don't get eight hours, I can't function, so I'm a great believer in power naps.
Bobby Davro
#2. No day is so bad that it can not be fixed by a good nap.
Carrie Snow
#3. A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.
George Bernard Shaw
#4. No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good ... she took long naps, never got old, and didn't have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.
Olive Green
#5. it is best to limit daytime naps to a maximum of 20 minutes and take them earlier in the day rather than later. Chill
Alan Anderson
#6. I take a two hour nap between 1PM and 3PM.
Yogi Berra
#7. I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.
Tom Hodgkinson
#8. My mother is the antithesis of a typical Jewish mother, she is very soft-spoken and takes more naps that a cat. As a result, I've always longed for someone to really annoy the shit out of me.
Chelsea Handler
#9. I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips.
Charlie Sheen
#10. Dr. Philbosian smelled like an old couch, of hair oil and spilled soup, of unscheduled naps.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#11. It's so good for your health to take those naps. I don't know why people brag that they sleep five hours. I'd be ashamed. I'm proud that I sleep nine hours.
Sandra Cisneros
#12. Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. I never take a nap after dinner
but when I have had a bad night,
and then the nap takes me.
Samuel Johnson
#15. I'm young, and I'm fortunate to be in good health, although I do get tired. Sometimes my wife refers to me as Mr. Excitement because of the number of naps it takes to keep this going.
Russ Feingold
#16. To me, video games aren't something as necessary as food or sleep, but they're just as important as delicious food, drinks, afternoon naps, walks, music, and sex (or masturbation). Not having them won't kill you, but without them, your life would be so boring you might as well be dead.
Hidetaka Suehiro
#17. I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.
Natasha Lyonne
#18. If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.
Lee Unkrich
#21. #41: SLEEP WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPY. CATS TAKE NAPS SO THEY'RE ALWAYS READY FOR ANYTHING.
Mark Frost
#22. I like to take long naps. I like long walks on the beach. The perfect day is back home, California, going to the beach with a couple of friends, laying out in the sunshine, get a nice bronze.
Keaton Stromberg
#24. Hey, doctors have proven that daytime naps improve your memory and help you remember important facts.
Si Robertson
#25. I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself.
Dean Koontz
#26. To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you know, afresh. It forces the world on you. And I think it's a good thing.
Cormac McCarthy
#27. Nighttime, in a nanosecond, asleep by 10:30. No chance I'll get through the day without two naps. Before noon, around 11 A.M. I catch 30 minutes. Living not far from CBS is perfect because afternoons I go home for another.
Charlie Rose
#28. I like Aurora, 'Sleeping Beauty,' because she's just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.
Ariana Grande
#30. Rule by cats, that's what we really need. My first decree would be for more naps." "And
Jordan L. Hawk
#31. Two jobless grown-ups, we spent weeks wandering around our Brooklyn brownstone in socks and pajamas, ignoring the future, strewing unopened mail across tables and sofas, eating ice cream at ten A.M. and taking thick afternoon naps.
Gillian Flynn
#32. The Indians franchise is more than a century old. It's been called the Blues, the Bronchos, and the Naps. It's also been called a lot worse during hard times when the team wasn't winning.
Tucker Elliot
#33. Sometimes, Manny is taking a nap, and you woke up the baby. There's not a better retaliation, something like that. Manny's one of the best at that.
Kevin Millar
#34. Yeah, I cut class ... I got a D.
Cause History meant nothing to me
Except a definite nap.
That's why I always sat in the back.
Mike G
#35. I am a great believer in naps, whatever age you are.
Shirley Eaton
#36. Take a nap
Making the mountain water
Pound the rice.
Kobayashi Issa
#37. I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising!
John Godfrey Saxe
#38. Nap time would become a national pastime. A man needs his beauty rest!
Si Robertson
#39. Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#40. I love my bed. It is larger than a desk and better designed to hold books and papers. It is softer than a desk and better designed for naps. It is the center of all good things. And day or night, everyone knows where to find me.
Cathleen Schine
#41. It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
Natalie Portman
#42. A lot of high-profile companies are recognizing the benefits of power napping ... It's like kindergarten all over again.
Stefanie Weisman
#44. The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.
Robert Duvall
#45. The light a sun. When I was a child, I thought that sleep came with darkness. When I grew older, I took long naps in the glare of the afternoon sunlight. The darkness was my enemy. Daylight was a triumph.
Abigail George
#46. When my marriage broke up ... I had just put on 45 pounds for my 'Shall We Dance?' character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.
Lisa Ann Walter
#47. Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.
Stephen King
#48. A power nap, is when you sleep on someone who's weaker than you
Demetri Martin
#49. The more nervous you get, the more worried you get about something ... Maybe you just need to take a nap.
Jeff Bridges
#51. Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.
Peggy Noonan
#52. While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
Larry Wall
#53. I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.
Pal Benko
#54. The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
Abraham Cowley
#55. I'm not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and hear it in my voice. When working 14-hour days, I have to go home, go to sleep, and wake up in time for crew call. I hate naps. They throw me off the rest of the day.
Anna Kendrick
#56. Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.
Chico Resch
#57. I shall be glad to see thee back, daughter, for I miss thee dreadfully. I wish I did not! I was taking a nap in my chair today, and I thought I heard thee rustling thy papers, and I looked over at thy table expecting to see thee, and alas! thee was not there, and it was dreadful.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#59. You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.
Polly Horvath
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.
Jeff Kinney
#63. After listening to "Machine Gun" I have to take a nap.
Lenny Kravitz
#64. School means work and work means death. Let's all go take a nap.
Emma Shannon
#66. I'm going to beat Alexis Davis then take a nap
Ronda Rousey
#67. Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
A.A. Milne
#68. But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I spent too much time playing their games, my mind grew peckish and longed to lose itself in some book I had in my backpack. I was ever hopeful of early bedtimes and long naps.
Lorrie Moore
#69. But with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago "something or other or die" had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other.
Robin McKinley
#70. Reading and naps, two of life's greatest pleasures, go especially well together.
Will Schwalbe
#71. Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.
Bill Hybels
#72. 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
#73. In Tulsa, a girl would no sooner have run around with unstraightened hair than she would have run around naked. It would have been worse than running around naked, letting everyone see your naps (40).
Martha Southgate
#74. Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.
Feist
#75. Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
Thomas Carlyle
#76. I like to take afternoon naps in the nude.
Cleo Moore
#77. I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.
Jacques Barzun
#78. My dragons took long naps on their chains and forgot to frighten me with their fiery roar.
Sarina Bowen
#79. Wisdom is in measured routine. Three naps a day will keep you fit, nine breakfasts before noon, spin until you fall on your back, and thrust your face into a nettle plant. Drink at least five cups of a mare's urine and look upon your self in a silver mirror while you hold your air in your chest.
Benjamin Franklin
#80. Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.
William Gibson
#81. Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps.
Scott Adams
#84. Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really.
Dave Barry
#85. 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
#87. This tiger is sprawled
So still and so flat,
A question arises
When glancing thereat.
Is he asleep? to be
Perfectly frank,
He looks more as if
He was creamed by a tank!
Bill Watterson
#89. Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.
Catherynne M Valente
#90. In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!
Bill Cosby
#91. In the land of Cheerios, dirty diapers, fleeting naps and interrupted sleep, other mothers are a lifeline.
Susan Chira
#92. Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.
Keri Russell
#93. I'm beginning to appreciate the value of naps. Naps are wonderful, aren't they? Sometimes now I have to take a nap to get ready for bed.
Marsha Warfield
#94. I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.
Dan Chaon
#95. 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
#96. Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match ... If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap, but if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
Larry Lucchino
#97. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.
Harper Lee
#98. Naps are not a sign of physical slovenliness. They are a sign that I am listening to my body. It will reward me with stable emotions, hormones that stay in check, social finesse, continued cleverness, and the ability to write prose that does not make me gag.
Thomm Quackenbush
#99. Massages are my favorite. Sometimes just getting myself outside for a walk if I'm really busy can be an indulgence. I love taking naps. I love to stay up too late with close friends. I believe in everything in moderation. I take what I like and leave what I don't.
Taylor Schilling
#100. Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
Jane Smiley
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