Top 99 Slept Like Sayings

#1. I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours. In my bedroom.

Maureen Johnson

Slept Like Sayings #7975
#2. She had the wild look of someone who hadn't slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being made out of rubber and cocaine.

Emma Straub

Slept Like Sayings #12436
#3. Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn't a sign of things to come.

Rick Riordan

Slept Like Sayings #15396
#4. My mom was kinda like a cat. She slept a lot.

Chelsea Handler

Slept Like Sayings #42535
#5. There she stood. Dark circles ringed her eyes. Her face was pale, almost snow-white. She probably hadn't slept, either. She was still wearing the same dress. Her hair looked like a bomb had gone off. She was beautiful.

Daniel Ehrenhaft

Slept Like Sayings #43490
#6. Her green eyes meet mine in the Guinness mirror behind the bar and it feels like all the air has been sucked out of the room. I've never slept with this girl, but she was the first I remember wanting.
Harper Gray.

Trish Doller

Slept Like Sayings #48368
#7. I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

Rudyard Kipling

Slept Like Sayings #132072
#8. Jeez, we haven't even slept together and already you don't trust me."
"I've known you all your life not to mention the fact that my idiot sister is in the next room and when you two get together it's like Laurel and Hardy do Denver.

Kristen Ashley

Slept Like Sayings #136888
#9. He's an even-tempered stallion. What he lacks in stamina he makes up for in speed, kind of like most of the men I've slept with.

Lila Shaw

Slept Like Sayings #189564
#10. No, I have slept enough, and I like looking outside. It makes me hopeful. There is nothing like God's sunshine to cheer you up.

Dorothy Clark

Slept Like Sayings #197373
#11. From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped.

Simone Elkeles

Slept Like Sayings #227211
#12. He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it while animals are prepared to escape out of it.

Theodore Sturgeon

Slept Like Sayings #232439
#13. Simon," I say, and swallow again, "you're being idiotic."
"Because I like this better than fighting?"
"There is no 'this'!" I protest.
"You slept in my arms," he says.
"Fitfully.

Rainbow Rowell

Slept Like Sayings #241977
#14. Dogman remembered the smell of her hair, the sound of her laugh, the feel of her back, pressed warm and soft against his belly while she slept. Well-used memories, picked over and worn thin like a favourite shirt.

Joe Abercrombie

Slept Like Sayings #251000
#15. Like many old people she slept lightly and had periods of wakefulness which she used for the planning of some action or actions to be carried out on the next or following days.

Agatha Christie

Slept Like Sayings #285240
#16. I couldn't help shaking my head as I looked at him. Ian slept like a baby every morning - well, a baby who continually kept one hand down his pants.

Jeaniene Frost

Slept Like Sayings #285339
#17. The whole time I hadn't slept with anyone at university had made it harder and harder to finally do it. Like spending too long on a very high diving board, until finally you have to exit ignominiously, the same way you climbed up.

Olivia Sudjic

Slept Like Sayings #288362
#18. I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.

Skylar Grey

Slept Like Sayings #292069
#19. I resisted the urge to sit and stare at Lend while he slept; when he dreamed, instead of his eyes moving behind his eyelids, his whole glamour shifted appearances like a stop-motion film. It was fascinating and wildly entertaining sometimes - also a bit freaky considering I showed up constantly.

Kiersten White

Slept Like Sayings #334283
#20. I never thought the touch of another person could make the nerves jangle and dance beneath my skin. It was like I had slept the last few months away and now, suddently, I was waking up.

Shannon Delaney

Slept Like Sayings #373535
#21. There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.

Christine De Pizan

Slept Like Sayings #407356
#22. I paced while he slept, ricocheting like a dove skidding the lonely confines of a Joseph Cornell box.

Patti Smith

Slept Like Sayings #410473
#23. I was afraid of the dark until I was, like, 15 and slept with a nightlight.

Chrissie Fit

Slept Like Sayings #427901
#24. It was beginning to feel like an almost familiar place to be. But perhaps hitting this new low had something to be said for it, she thought now, this morning, after she had awoken and realized in some surprise that she had slept for several hours. At least now there was no further down to go. And

Mary Balogh

Slept Like Sayings #441753
#25. I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
Why, so am I. We still have slept together,
Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together,
And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans,
Still we went coupled and inseparable.

William Shakespeare

Slept Like Sayings #520335
#26. Nothing can unite two people like early morning insomnia. It was a bond Jack and I had that you never did. You always slept like you were dead. But at three or four in the morning, when no one else is awake, it's a lot easier to open up.

Kate Kae Myers

Slept Like Sayings #524409
#27. I finally just slept with my high school crush. But I swear; now he expects me to go to his graduation - like I know where I'm going to be in three years.

Amy Schumer

Slept Like Sayings #570264
#28. If you are the leader, you don't have the right to say things like "Ugh, didn't eat this week I was so busy." "Haven't slept." I look sideways at those signs of bravado, which are intended to make one feel that the person is working so hard. I don't think that way.

Scott Raab

Slept Like Sayings #578105
#29. Closing his eyes, he made it about fifteen minutes before his tossing and turning rode those pj bottoms so far up his crotch he felt like he could cough flannel.
If he was doing the mattress and pillow thing, he usually slept naked and now he knew why.
This was f'in ridiculous.

J.R. Ward

Slept Like Sayings #583937
#30. Waking up the second time next to Jax James was like waking up for the first time. He was most definitely a cuddler while he slept.

J. Lynn

Slept Like Sayings #586799
#31. Bran knew that men slept on top of women when they shared a bed. Sleeping under Lord Manderly would be like sleeping under a fallen horse, he imagined.

George R R Martin

Slept Like Sayings #593952
#32. I slept like a baby the night before, because I knew that I'd win the next day.

Bernard Hinault

Slept Like Sayings #603999
#33. Rin slept inside the oak's thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself.

Shannon Hale

Slept Like Sayings #617063
#34. I slept like his sister would have, without trouble or dreams.

Ann Patchett

Slept Like Sayings #658853
#35. It was a troubled night, the last they spent in the castle. Not many slept. But the lord of it had long understood that what could cease to be his never had been his, and slept like a child.

George MacDonald

Slept Like Sayings #661962
#36. Hawk was like a man gone mad. He'd hardly slept all night for worrying about her, and here she was, calmly riding back to Fort Laramie and her lover. He longed, at that moment, to put his hands around her slender throat and choke some sense into her.

Kat Martin

Slept Like Sayings #681212
#37. It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching.
We had both been robbed.

Charles Bukowski

Slept Like Sayings #689786
#38. Ours is a culture that dances on the edge of ephemerality. If our servers slept for too long or if we left our iPads unplugged for too long, we'd wake up like Rip Van Winkle to find all of our book culture erased.

Jason Merkoski

Slept Like Sayings #735264
#39. The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Slept Like Sayings #838305
#40. But it was all a ruse - we played so we could fall asleep in the same bed without having to ask, so we could wrap together like a braid, so while we slept our dreams could switch bodies.

Jandy Nelson

Slept Like Sayings #859388
#41. Every bed I've ever slept in never felt like my own. There were always strange sheets, strange smells - and just when I thought I'd be getting used to it, we'd have to leave. I got so tired of running."

Then stay. You don't ever have to run again.

Felice Stevens

Slept Like Sayings #900089
#42. As he turned inwards she turned outwards, but while he wore his intensity like a garment, she slept in hers.

Jeanette Winterson

Slept Like Sayings #925239
#43. You slept just fine in the recliner. Why couldn't you sleep with me?"
"You mean next to a guy who still smelled like the pair of bar flies he had just sent home? I don't know! How selfish of me!

Jamie McGuire

Slept Like Sayings #979635
#44. Remember when i slept with my head in a puddle at your feet? It was humility, or atonement. later your ankle was a pillow and finally you pulled me up and in my sleep i placed your hand above my heart, like i forgot i didn't live there anymore

Michelle Tea

Slept Like Sayings #997786
#45. Oh my gawd, I slept like a bear in hibernation,

Zoe Lynne

Slept Like Sayings #999340
#46. He wondered briefly what it was like to dream. He never did. Possibly because he so seldom slept. He was obsessed with obtaining all the wealth he could, burning the midnight oil as often as possible. It protected a person from having to do things he didn't want to do.

Lorraine Heath

Slept Like Sayings #1015784
#47. If I'd known I was about to meet the man who'd shatter me like bone china on terra-cotta, I would have slept in. Instead,

Martha Hall Kelly

Slept Like Sayings #1018156
#48. Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,
she slowly closed out of sight,
and she was the woman I loved,
but too many times she slept like
a mechanical deer in my caresses,
and I ached in the metal silence
of her dreams.

Richard Brautigan

Slept Like Sayings #1050601
#49. With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as he flew, were like smoke at his feet. He lived a great life while we slept, in the dark of the night, And went home by the mariners' road, down the stars' empty street.

Ernest Rhys

Slept Like Sayings #1057721
#50. A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.

Cass McCombs

Slept Like Sayings #1081690
#51. Was it home, the mercury-lit street? Was he returning like the elephant to his graveyard, to lie down and soon become ivory in whose bulk slept, latent, exquisite shapes of chessmen, backscratchers, hollow open-work Chinese spheres nested one inside the other?

Thomas Pynchon

Slept Like Sayings #1099106
#52. It was the first time she'd slept in my bed and yet it felt like she'd always been there.

Christina Lauren

Slept Like Sayings #1109308
#53. We all sat there and looked at each other and didn't look at each other. We chewed gum, drank coffee, went into restrooms, urinated, slept. We sat on the hard benches and smoked cigarettes we didn't want to smoke. We looked at each other and didn't like what we saw.

Charles Bukowski

Slept Like Sayings #1135531
#54. I slept and the night rolled over into day like a dog. Another post-meridian awakening - sunshine on empty bottles, tangled clothes. I dozed while the temperature rose.

Matthew Stokoe

Slept Like Sayings #1151379
#55. Last night, I killed a man. If I had to, I'd do it all over again. Afterwards I slept like a baby. There's a surprising amount of physical exertion in murder - they don't call it a dead weight for nothing.

A.E. Rawson

Slept Like Sayings #1153212
#56. It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.

Macaulay Culkin

Slept Like Sayings #1155474
#57. It was sometime in October; she had long ago lost track of all the days and it really didn't matter because one was like another and there were no nights to separate them because she never slept any more.

Sylvia Plath

Slept Like Sayings #1161780
#58. The miraculous power of love has often been underestimated just like we underestimate the power of sleep. Most of the herculean tasks performed by men were possible because they had been deeply in love and had slept well the night before.

Vivek Pereira

Slept Like Sayings #1168284
#59. Wait, this guy has a kid?" Elliot gasped over the phone. "What hot mess have you gotten yourself into, girl?"
"Shut up, Elliot. Like you haven't slept with a load of hairy daddies in your time."
"But they weren't, like, actual daddies.

Leta Blake

Slept Like Sayings #1191749
#60. Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke up every ten minutes, screaming?

Lee Child

Slept Like Sayings #1197501
#61. Slept too long. And I don't much like the world I woke up to.

Robert Charles Wilson

Slept Like Sayings #1221405
#62. I can't keep a baby," A.J. says firmly. "I haven't slept in two nights. She's a terrorist! She wakes up at, like, insane times. Three forty-five in the morning seems to be when her day begins. I live alone. I'm poor. You can't raise a baby on books alone.

Gabrielle Zevin

Slept Like Sayings #1231296
#63. I slept like a baby. Every two hours, I woke up and cried.

Tom McVie

Slept Like Sayings #1257215
#64. Did you sleep at all?"
"No." She heard him mumble something to himself and decided to cut him off before he could scold her again. "My butt did, though. Slept like a log all night."
"Well, obviously, your butt has more sense than you do.

Josephine Angelini

Slept Like Sayings #1272266
#65. She wanted to know all about me, what I was like, who I was. I worried, there wasn't really much to tell. I had no preferences. I ate anything, wore anything, sat where you told me, slept where you said. I was infinitely adaptable.

Janet Fitch

Slept Like Sayings #1279571
#66. As America slept, our constitutional quilt was slowly being unraveled by special interest... I hope you like the cold.

A.J. Garces

Slept Like Sayings #1283669
#67. She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.

Victor Hugo

Slept Like Sayings #1288492
#68. We hadn't brought a tent. Even if it rained, we couldn't afford to blind ourselves like that when we slept.

Patricia Briggs

Slept Like Sayings #1292192
#69. I half hoped Mr. Pearson would waLk out holding Thomas by the scruff of his neck, still wearing his boxers or pajama pants or whatever the hell a guy like him slept in. But seconds later, when Mr. Pearson emerged, he was red with rage and completely alone.
Thomas was gone.

Kate Brian

Slept Like Sayings #1293577
#70. Nobody taught me to be like this. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world, I have never slept with a man. Never. Just imagine what purity. I have nothing to be ashamed of.
[2000]

Chavela Vargas

Slept Like Sayings #1306843
#71. Suddenly he fell asleep in the candlelight. After a while I got up to look at his face. He slept like everybody else. He looked quite ordinary. There ought to be some mark by which to distinguish good from the bad.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Slept Like Sayings #1306915
#72. Like old men and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little.

Victor Hugo

Slept Like Sayings #1308836
#73. I thought of a remark ... that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

Winston S. Churchill

Slept Like Sayings #1316083
#74. First of all, I would like to clear the air on one thing. Alison has slept with more men than Amanda; Sydney has slept with more men than Amanda; I think Matt has slept with more men than Amanda.

Heather Locklear

Slept Like Sayings #1402589
#75. It seems like James really doesn't like you, Siobhan."
"Nah. He's just mad at me because I didn't call him back after we slept together."
- Kayla Dorland and Siobhan Wrestles

R.J. Morse, R.J. Brookes

Slept Like Sayings #1407803
#76. We worked like dogs, we ate like hogs, and we slept like logs.

Terry W. Sprouse

Slept Like Sayings #1408858
#77. He slept curled up on the hard rock more soundly than ever he had done on his feather-bed in his own little hole at home. But all night he dreamed of his own house and wandered in his sleep into all his different rooms looking for something that he could not find nor remember what it looked like.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Slept Like Sayings #1463383
#78. We resumed our steady march through the sleeping street. Boulder City was incredibly quiet. If Vegas was the city that never slept, then Boulder made up for it. It slept like a drunkard on a feather bed. We hadn't even been barked at.

Amy Harmon

Slept Like Sayings #1466422
#79. When she slept, she looked peaceful, beautiful. Not Lena's kind of beautiful, something different. She looked content - like a sunny day, a cold glass of milk, an unopened book before you cracked the binding.

Kami Garcia

Slept Like Sayings #1493925
#80. They had slept like babies. Which proves how important it is for a man to return home,

V.C. Andrews

Slept Like Sayings #1495432
#81. I got some new pajamas with pockets in 'em. Which is great, because before that, I used to have to hold stuff when I slept. But now I'm like, 'Where's my planner? There it is. "Keep sleeping." All right, perfect.'

Demetri Martin

Slept Like Sayings #1496240
#82. It struck Linda suddenly that this was the middle of the night. Even here, in the city that never slept, most people now were sleeping. Law firm time was like casino time, only instead of an endless cocktail hour it was always a neon-bright afternoon. The dead center of the workday, all night long.

Tara Conklin

Slept Like Sayings #1505563
#83. As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

Ben Horowitz

Slept Like Sayings #1533561
#84. We were solitary and apart. Slept during the day, uncurled at dusk like evening primroses; fragrant and lush. We never wanted to conquer the world, only our fears. We didn't keep in touch. Somewhere, though, our memories had.

Sarah Winman

Slept Like Sayings #1615724
#85. He was pretty sure he hadn't dozed off as a snake. Usually, he slept like a dog.

Rick Riordan

Slept Like Sayings #1656867
#86. You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

Carl Sandburg

Slept Like Sayings #1663844
#87. I should've written a contract up before we slept together so he understood exactly what it entailed outside the bedroom. It meant you have to agree with everything I say, especially when people I don't like are present

Donna Augustine

Slept Like Sayings #1706208
#88. Even when she slept, she tossed and turned and squirmed, like she was secretly a hurricane forced into a girl-body and told to exist as best she could among people who had no idea what it meant to secretly be a weather pattern.

Seanan McGuire

Slept Like Sayings #1714113
#89. I adore Clinique's All About Eyes cream. It depuffs the eyes and makes me look like I actually slept eight hours!

Joanna Garcia

Slept Like Sayings #1754069
#90. The gourney, the big file drawers of the dead, the instruments of dissection - this sure looked like the morgues in the movies. Something had gone seriously wrong while she slept.

Christopher Moore

Slept Like Sayings #1759942
#91. Basically, your fear is like a mall cop who thinks he's a Navy SEAL: He hasn't slept in days, he's all hopped up on Red Bull, and he's liable to shoot at his own shadow in an absurd effort to keep everyone safe.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Slept Like Sayings #1766708
#92. He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

Raymond Chandler

Slept Like Sayings #1788036
#93. The last thing Helen thought before she drifted off after him was that she'd slept on a beach like this before with another boy. But this time there was no Helen-shaped dent for her to fit inside.

Josephine Angelini

Slept Like Sayings #1804947
#94. Reading The Alchemist was like getting up at dawn and seeing the sun rise while the rest of the world still slept.

Paulo Coelho

Slept Like Sayings #1814053
#95. An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.

Sara Quin

Slept Like Sayings #1846733
#96. And with that, Rorie climbed back not her bed and slept for what seemed like a hundred years.

Patricia Kirby

Slept Like Sayings #1852004
#97. His anger was still there, and he used it to break into her. He liked the way her eyes widened in alarm, as if he was forcing a lock, as if he was breaking and entering. It was the first time he'd ever slept with a woman and it felt like burglary.

Rupert Thomson

Slept Like Sayings #1856817
#98. Maybe she was the lucky one, I thought, a woman
who had divested herself of both future and past. No dreams, no
standards, a woman who smoked and drank and slept with men like
Sergei, men who were spiritually what came up out of the sewers when
it rained.

Janet Fitch

Slept Like Sayings #1859795
#99. He slept like a shout.

Anne Enright

Slept Like Sayings #1875073

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