Top 19 Sleeping Sickness Quotes
#1. Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.
Norman Tebbit
#2. Too much sleep is bad for your health, Matilda." She slipped a freshly made ball of butter into a stone crock. "It must be such a grippe, a sleeping sickness.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#3. The deterioration of the intelligentsia is as much a symptom of disease as the corruption of the ruling class or the sleeping sickness of the proletariat.
Arthur Koestler
#4. And Mamma was still asleep. I called it the sleeping sickness because coma is the ugliest word in the entire universe. If I could, I'd erase it from the dictionary, but Old Webster would probably hunt me down.
Kimberley Griffiths Little
#5. I happen to think we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
W. Somerset Maugham
#6. As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.
Chris Hardwick
#7. I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.
Susanna Moore
#8. Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp.
Bob Dylan
#9. In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
Hedda Hopper
#12. I felt tears welling up behind my eyes and tried to blink them back.
Norman Ollestad
#14. Unlike my dead lover, I refuse to/ choose the day I shock the world. There's no/ mystery left in suicide. The challenge is, my love,/ to keep yourself awake/ despite the sleeping pill doses of sickness and/ despair.
Rigoberto Gonzalez
#15. Heaped up on the blankets, our bodies bound by weariness and her deep slumber, surrounded by sickness and hope, death and defiance, I touched the soft surrendered curl of Karla's sleeping fingers to my lips, and I pledged my heart to her forever.
Gregory David Roberts
#16. Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!
Martin Luther
#17. It was on the tip of my tongue to say something snide, something that would hurt him, but somehow I couldn't. It would be like kicking Bambi in the teeth.
Marshall Thornton
#18. She remembered the days when they'd been each other's everything, when just being together was enough. When she believed their love could conquer the world. How long had it been since Michael had said her name in that special way, when they'd talked all night about their dreams and their future?
Dominique Wilson