Quotes About Siesta

#1. ...the devil's hour, two o'clock on a summer afternoon--the siesta hour.

Kamel Daoud

#2. 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

#3. We should have abided by our larval condition, dispensed with evolution, remained incomplete, delighting in the elemental siesta and calmly consuming ourselves in an embryonic ecstasy.

Emil Cioran

#4. In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta. There was a lazy murmur of bees in the flower-borders, a gentle cooing of pigeons in the tops of the elms. From

A.A. Milne

#5. The usual for me. The usual was a strong infusion of different kinds of Oriental teas, which raised her spirits after her siesta.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.

Audrey Tautou

#7. The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.

Tom Hodgkinson

#9. The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately.

Sukarno

#10. But not of late years are we about to speak; we are going back to the beginning of this century; late years - present years are dusty, sun-burnt, hot, arid; we will evade the noon, forget it in siesta, pass the mid-day in slumber, and dream of dawn.

Charlotte Bronte

#11. With a languid hand he brushed away the cobwebs of his siesta ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. When I looked around, with my wife, Sarasota seemed like the best place in Florida. We settled about one mile from Siesta Key.

John Lutz

#13. Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.

Alyson Noel

#14. Great thinkers are the grateful thankers - the real greats live gratefully.

Ann Voskamp

#15. Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

Iain M. Banks

#16. The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits; ...

David Ricardo

#17. When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Simple foods connect with your body's needs in complex ways.

Bryant McGill