Top 100 Slept On Quotes
#1. The weary guests are asked to leave the warmth of the all-night theater, having slept on pictures others only dream on.
Tony Banks
#2. Dust webbed the window and the showtrays. Dust darkened the toiling fingers with their vulture nails. Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones.
James Joyce
#3. Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.
Balthazar Getty
#4. I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed - and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition.
Laurieann Gibson
#5. Generally, that humble piece of furniture placed on the front veranda of the house officially belonged to the man of the household; the women never slept on it.
Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
#6. When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.
Julia Jones
#7. You see, I've heard of a man whose friend had been imprisoned and who slept on the floor of his room every night in order not to enjoy a comfort of which his friend had been deprived.
Albert Camus
#8. Up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous,
J.K. Rowling
#9. Why don't you tell people what happened last night"
"You slept on the sofa!"
"And why is that?"
"Because you're ... incompetent
R.S. Burnett
#10. My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.
Ving Rhames
#11. I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.
John Searles
#12. You smell heavenly. I slept on your side of your side of the bed because your pillow smells of you.
E.L. James
#13. At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't uncommon in the 1950s, and it wasn't uncommon to be out of money. There wasn't anywhere to go to get money.
Kerry Stokes
#14. When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no bed at first. I slept on the floor.
Maximilian Schell
#15. But it's all the little people, Buk, the twenty-five-buck-a-week guys who gave up everything to keep the thing going. The guys with cardboard in their shoes. The guys who slept on the floor.
Charles Bukowski
#16. Last night, we IM'd so late, I fell asleep with my computer on my lap and woke to his words dinging on my screen. Three things, he said: (1) good morning, (2) I have keybord marks on my face. slept on the "sdfg." (3) you leave in 24 hours, and I'm going to miss you.
Julie Buxbaum
#17. My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
M.I.A.
#18. 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
#19. For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.
Shelley Duvall
#20. Edward Albee, our greatest living playwright, American treasure, who watched Doubt from beginning to end and loved it, all while a bored B. J. Novak slept on him.
Mindy Kaling
#21. The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.
Francis Ford Coppola
#22. I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.
Solange Knowles
#23. And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.
Thomas Hardy
#24. 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
#25. slept on the priest's floor last night. We got very drunk." "You and the padre got smashed? What was the occasion?" "Clergy Appreciation Day." "That's a thing?" "Apparently so. Got drunk with a priest last night. Broke a televangelist's wrist this morning. My new favorite holiday.
Tiffany Reisz
#26. He doesn't even suit ya, and he's surely not your size,
I'm surprised that you slept on a heart that's worldwide.
Slimkid3
#27. I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing.
Sonu Nigam
#28. I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.
Woody Guthrie
#30. 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
#31. There was a singer-songwriter who slept on our couch for a year when I was about 7 or 8. She used to sing these songs for us, and I loved it. It was magical to watch her.
Vonda Shepard
#32. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
Na
#33. The sort of gloves he'd dreamed about when he'd slept on the streets of London all those months ago. The sort of gloves he'd dreamed of his whole life. "Do
Garrett Leigh
#34. I just did whatever it took to keep making music - slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out.
Daniel Powter
#35. I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.
Gary Jennings
#36. They say sleep is the cousin of death, guess we related ...
Cause I'm the most slept on, and the most hated.
Jayceon Terrell Taylor
#37. You slept-on top of the blanket," he said.
"Uh, yeah."
"Were you trying to protect my honor?" He asked, and his smile spread from cheek to cheek.
Atom Yang
#38. Tremors of fear scrolled up her back and across her scalp. Why did she have these dreams only when she slept on the beach?
Bonnie S. Calhoun
#39. Asta Sollilja slept on, her head in the corner, mouth open, chin up, and head back, with one hand under her ear and the other half-open on the coverlet as if she thought in her sleep that someone would come and lay happiness in her palm.
Halldor Laxness
#40. Not everything needed to be processed. Some things needed to be ignored and slept on.
Max Wirestone
#41. The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.
Adam Richman
#42. A lovely fatigue claimed him. He lay down on the grass and listened. He thought about how Kestrel had slept on the palace lawn and dreamed of him. When she had told him this, he'd wished that it had been real. He tried to imagine the dream, then found himself dreaming.
Marie Rutkoski
#43. And so all of these thoughts overwhelmed me when I woke from my hiding place in an alley the next morning, having slept on garbage and filth, to find it - wearing a large gray hat, small as a child but with the wizened features of something already dead - staring down at me.
Jeff VanderMeer
#44. When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!
Emo Philips
#45. I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room ... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.
Anupam Kher
#46. When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me?
Anthony Liccione
#47. 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
#48. He bought her a pretty music box with a picture of the castle in winter painted on the lid, and she slept on his shoulder on the train ride home.
Michael Schmicker
#49. I thought you said you've slept on rocks in the snow.'
'I have. That's why I sleep on soft beds whenever I can.
Susan Ee
#50. In the half-reclined bed, Yaz slept, mouth open, snoring - probably doped. Mike turned on the TV. For twenty minutes, he watched retired generals on CNN discussing Afghanistan and troop surges as though they knew what the hell war was all about.
Pete Barber
#51. A Seth Thomas steeple clock stood on a high shelf. When it struck ten, Grandma jerked awake. She looked around the room astonished. It was her belief that she never slept, not even in bed.
Richard Peck
#52. The Rich man was let alone in his sin suffered to go on without molestation. He fared sumptuously every day, slept secure and expected no disturbance. And the first of his awaking out of his security was when he lifted up his eyes that were now opened being in torments.
Jonathan Edwards
#53. Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated ... , and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character, Selina said.
Edna Ferber
#54. You slept with my sister."
"Get over it. You could either fight with me over it or help me fight for her. She deserves some good guys on her side. And I'm planning on being one of them.
Christine Zolendz
#55. As I recall, Drew made me take him to see a voodoo priestess he found in the yellow pages that week because he said the friend put a hex on his penis. For two weeks he slept with a two-pound package of boneless, skinless chicken breasts on his junk since he refused to sacrifice a live chicken.
Tara Sivec
#56. But she had to go to bed first, and all night she slept soundly on her bed of hay, dreaming of nothing but of shining mountains with red roses all over them, among which happy little Snowflake went leaping in and out.
Johanna Spyri
#57. She slept a lot and didn't dream, and on most occasions she was sorry to wake up. Everything disappeared when she was asleep.
Markus Zusak
#58. I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.
Brian Sewell
#59. That night we slept apart, all those unexplored continents reemerged on the atlas of your bed.
Rosalyn D'Mello
#60. I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.
George McGovern
#61. Anxiety is secretive. He does not trust anyone, not even his friends, Worry, Terror, Doubt and Panic ... He likes to visit me late at night when I am alone and exhausted. I have never slept with him, but he kissed me on the forehead once, and I had a headache for two years ...
J. Ruth Gendler
#62. It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.
John Green
#63. But in a pinch, he was a capable coder too. He just wasn't especially fast. So when he was finally done coding and debugging his program and ran a successful test, it was past eleven on Tuesday night. He hadn't slept but for a few hours on Sunday night, and the lack of sleep had cooked him.
Matthew FitzSimmons
#64. Dan slept throughout - but a man who sleeps with his head lying on a phone table can never really sleep with a clean conscience
Will Self
#65. Religious people were big on saying "the tongue is a mighty weapon, so use it wisely," and then forsaking this claim when the music director slept with the minister's wife or when the youth minister did what he did.
Tiffany King
#66. On reflection, I was pleased that I would get the opportunity to keep my pledge to the Skinner brothers, but I slept uneasily that night. I realised that my career as an intelligencer was not over. On the contrary. It had only just begun.
D.W. Bradbridge
#67. I became an insomniac, really, hardly slept at all, didn't even try to. And it's carried on. I hate to say I only need as much sleep as Mrs. Thatcher, but I can cope really well on five hours.
Sue Townsend
#68. He's gonna end up cursing around Blaire, and you're gonna be sleeping on the couch for a week. Maybe she'll stick your ass under the stairs. I hear payback is a bitch, I told him, referring to how Blaire had slept in a room under Rush's stairs when she first came to town.
Abbi Glines
#69. Katie had slept through morning mass but she could still go to confession and make an effort to banish her unholy and unhealthy thoughts. Mother never asked what she was thinking and feeling on these trips; she just assumed that anything Katie had on her mind was dirty and sinful.
Carol Storm
#70. For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.
Bikram Choudhury
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Yes, there is a science to the aroma of sleeping women
(and to think of the girlfriend I was tempted to break up with because she slept too much)
i now know, they NURTURED here there: they slept in packs dreamt in cycles nursed her in shifts and became her ON ROTATION
Saul Williams
#75. He couldn't know that I'd overstayed my welcome one night while creeping through his megaron and had crawled up through the space where the pipes of the hypocaust ran to hide in his treasure room. I had slept for a day in stuffy darkness on the ridged tops of his treasure trunks.
Megan Whalen Turner
#76. Holiday leaned her elbows on her desk. "You can't find one thing that points to his guilt."
"He slept with your sister!" Burnett roared.
"Guilty of murder, not of being a piece of shit.
C.C. Hunter
#77. Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down on a bed instead of sitting at the counter of Black Cat Coffee. I quietly reassured them that this was an unusual situation, and had the machinery make me some bread as a breakfast.
Lemony Snicket
#78. MINDY TRUDGED to her computer. Today's shift began at 2:10 p.m. Her schedule matched Watney's every day. She slept when he slept. Watney simply slept at night on Mars, while Mindy had to drift forty minutes forward every day, taping aluminum foil to her windows to get any sleep at all.
Andy Weir
#79. Nat was so easy about these things. Alex guessed that's what happened when you slept with another girl every week on an overcrowded island with too small a surface. She had no choice but to practice casualness.
Harper Bliss
#80. I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!
Christy Hall
#81. If you want to sleep with me, I don't mind. I've never slept with anybody, and I'm very fond of you, so if you want to make love to me, I don't mind at all. But marrying me is a whole different matter. If you marry me, you
take on all my troubles, and they're a lot worse than you can imagine.
Haruki Murakami
#82. I've slept in your sheets and seen my sweat cooling on your gorgeous skin. I've spent myself in your mouth and between your legs.
Tessa Bailey
#83. Ymir was a frost giant; he was evil from the first. While he slept, he began to sweat. A man and woman grew out of the ooze under his left armpit, and one of his legs fathered a son on the other leg.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#84. He slept until noon on Christmas Day, until Josh came in and sprayed him with one their mom's salon water bottles.
Rainbow Rowell
#85. Georgie was quiet. Neal had never slept with Dawn. She'd always assumed he'd had lots of fabulous young sex with Dawn. Freshly scrubbed Heartland-teenager sex. 'Suckin' on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freeze,' et cetera.
Rainbow Rowell
#86. I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Gould's wife when I was researching 'The Moor,' and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.
Laurie R. King
#87. Every bone in my body was crying out for rest, but I knew if I stopped, and perhaps slept, I would die. I had to keep going. It was strange, but the thirst which was killing me was also the driving force keeping me on this long, desperate march.
Marcus Luttrell
#89. 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
#90. Some patients are still having insomnia, but it's seems worse to them than actually it is. So, if they say they're sleep deprived, they haven't slept at all in three days; if we actually take them into a lab, most of the time we actually do see they're sleeping on and off here and there.
Shelby Harris
#91. I grew thinner and more ragged. I slept in rain or sun, on soft grass, moist earth, or sharp stones with an intensity of indifference that only grief can promote.
Patrick Rothfuss
#92. I thought it was one thing but it was the other, it was zero zero zero alone on the bus while you slept in the room I had to leave, and that's why we broke up.
Daniel Handler
#93. 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
#94. I have never, ever slept through my child crying unless I have had a sleeping tablet; and I only take a sleeping tablet when I know Steve, my husband, is on duty. We take turns: he does one night, I do the next.
Deirdre O'Kane
#95. Who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?
Leonore Fleischer
#96. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.
William Cowper
#97. I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
Abraham Lincoln
#98. I've never slept with a virgin, but I love breaking the seal on a new peanut butter.
Dana Gould
#99. And the Three Bears: No one ever questions why the Papa Bear and Mama Bear slept in separate beds. What was going on in that marriage? More backstory needed.
Jim Gaffigan
#100. I put the carpetbag on a ledge, and then, hanging upside down by my razor-clawed feet, slept until sunset. A first for me, and actually quite comfortable.
Lord help me.
J.R. Rain
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