Asleep Quotations

Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

Oh God, I'm going to get in trouble for saying this, but I grew up falling asleep in church because I was tired from watching horror movies late at night.

I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.

I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces.

I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.

O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

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.

I finished 'Heartsick' with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised.

I believe I am blessed with the ability to fall asleep just about anytime, anywhere. I can sleep on a flight, on a couch, and even on a bus.

I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on the computer, I'm reading, I'm writing, I'm never quiet. My brain is very rarely not engaged. Every now and again I will fall asleep under the parasol in the sun, but that's a rarity.

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening.

I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.

On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that a man's work was important, that he must pursue it tirelessly, and that it might require certain sacrifices, like being away from the warmth and comfort of home.

I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

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.

Until a couple years ago, the FCC was sort of asleep at the wheel when it comes to indecency enforcement, ... We helped jump-start the FCC and get them to look at this issue seriously.

What this does, at the very least, is raise the question of competence. Did someone fall asleep at the switch?

We fall asleep and the guy scores. You can't forget who's on base. I call it always thinking ahead and knowing your base runners and knowing what the run means. We learned the hard way. Again.

With the sheriff asleep in the office, the only way you get justice is with private lawyers like Alan Grayson willing to step up and take down these fraudulent companies. Alan Grayson showed that you can do that even without help from the government.

When you can't fall asleep at night or you keep waking up in the middle of the night, you have a low appetite, or increased crying for no reason, then you're showing signs that stress is getting out of control and it's to the point you need to reduce the stress in your life.

We're not consistently putting people asleep when we need to.

Last year we did about everything but fall asleep in the water. This year we showed up.

She and her husband fell asleep with hands tenderly clasped, and awoke, from visions of unearthly radiance, to meet the more blessed light of one another's eyes.

Sixty-four percent of people polled want a four-way debate. People like debate. They like competition. They like not to fall asleep in front of the TV set, watching the drab debate the dreary.

She may have fallen asleep on the bus. When she woke up, she made herself known to someone there.

She loved to go but by the end of the first quarter, she was always asleep in her wagon.

Most passengers were asleep when the accident took place. I was also asleep on my seat. Suddenly I heard a loud thud and I fell down from my seat. I was unconscious and later, when I regained consciousness, I was in the hospital bed.

One night I walked home very late and fell asleep in somebody's satellite dish. My dreams were showing up on TV's all over the world.

More people are doing away with home phones. If you're at home at night and you're asleep and we have a hazardous material incident, how will I know where to locate you?

NHTSA didn't do its job in responding to information that they had. They fell down on the job, they were asleep at the wheel and they needed to be reminded and this is the wake-up call of all wake-up calls.

Only the Guru is awake, the rest of the world is asleep in emotional attachment and desire.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

I am half asleep but the negotiations are wide awake.

Because of the late hour, we think he might have fallen asleep at the wheel.

I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day 'cause that means it's gonna be up all night.

I fell asleep on the situation. I pride myself on being professional and not showing anyone up. It was a poor error in judgment.

I fell asleep in the second quarter. Fortunately, I caught some highlights later. It didn't look like Michigan wanted to be there.

I fell asleep almost as soon as I got on the plane I was so tired. My neck was killing me,

I fell asleep a couple times (in the film room). I just looked at the screen because the coaches said to. But by midseason, (guard Jamie Carey) talked to me, and I took interest.

I fall asleep on the couch in front of the TV. It's very rare that I see the end of any show.

From the time I roll out of the cot at 6 A.M. to the time I fall asleep after midnight, I get to do what I love nonstop.

He looked like he was asleep for awhile.

We take a lot of pride in that, to be honest. It's one of the things that we've learned. If we're going to be a team that is a success, there are going to be days when our bats are asleep and we're going to need to manufacture. We're pretty good when we get on base, but sometimes we have to steal first.

Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s.

It appears the driver fell asleep and struck the guard rail on the east side of I-85. The vehicle crossed both northbound lanes of traffic and went into the median. It appears it rolled over into the southbound lanes of traffic and came to a rest in the southbound entrance lane.

It hurts us not to play Friday night games. We got home late Thursday from Puerto Rico and had to play a day game the next day on the 12th. We can get home at 1 o'clock not fall asleep until two and have to be back up at eight while the other team has been here. They are in bed before we even get home.

I thought he'd appreciate that. Whenever Tom led our morning worship service, he'd often just sit in silence. I have to admit, I always liked when Tom led service because it meant I could fall asleep. But hey, sometimes he fell asleep too.

I think you have to work on him in every possession. The kid's a tough player, he's a good player. If you put yourself in a position that you fall asleep on him at any point during the game, you're going to put him in a spot that he can make plays -- and he's good at making plays.

I think the FDA advisory committee was asleep at the switch, ... The question is, did they not get it, or did they get it and were not willing to stand their ground?

I was asleep by 10 (p.m.). Not nervous at all. I really feel like I belong here.

Last year, instant messaging was the sleeping giant, and companies were literally asleep at the wheel. This year, people are awakening to the problem, but haven't necessarily come up with solutions.

It is a shame that when we have a good dream we are asleep at the time.

Panic struck when they scored the first one and then there were six or seven minutes of added time. You have to compete right to the end and we fell asleep on a couple of plays.

Our country has been asleep at the switch on these things. The basic economics are that the supply of fossil fuels is limited and the demand is outstripping the supply. It's a recipe for continued crisis if we don't start changing our ways.

My sister could fall asleep at the drop of a hat. She would fall asleep on the train. Me, I never slept. Still. I have a hard time sleeping. But I used to admire her ability to wake up late.

I was happy with way we played defense in the first half. In the second half, we sort of fell asleep a little bit and didn't box out sometimes, and they crawled back in the game.

Management is not asleep at the switch. Anything you can do to move the needle in that direction is terrific for shareholders.

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. - The Dream Game

That was a critical one when it was 3-2. We kind of fell asleep a little bit ... that was the game. They played very well. I have to tip my hat to their hockey team.

That was a pretty good offensive game for us. Defensively, we were asleep most of the night. It seems like anytime we come into this type of game, we play down to the competition.

That's the question. Is there corruption involved? Some improper exchange of favors or anything like that? We don't know that yet. Or is it at best evidence of incompetence -- somebody was simply asleep at the switch?

I wasn't happy with our defense. We were asleep (in the first half), then we were awake (in the third quarter), then we fell asleep again.

Microsoft didn't get to $8 billion in revenues and $7 billion in cash because they fell asleep at the switch.

We celebrated a lot of big victories there. After the national championship, we didn't come back until the next day but we still went there to celebrate. Dean had a tape of the game but everyone was so tired we all fell asleep at halftime.

We have a great relationship with our label. We do have the creative freedom. For She Falls Asleep (a track on Wonderland) they paid for a 60-piece symphony orchestra. There are no guitars and drums on it. I don't think there is any other pop act that has that kind of freedom, and that is what separates us from the others. We are a proper pop band, and it's all our work. We are not a brand created to sell to kids, which makes us different from some of the other s**t out there.

We're really starting to see Microsoft gear up. Of course, the company was asleep at the wheel for a long time.

You know, there's so many accidents where drivers fall asleep and crash. I sure don't want that to happen. I have a great family at home.

We gave up an awful goal from my standpoint. We fell asleep three minutes in, and now you've got 87 minutes left to try to get back into it. We did everything we could to do that, but it just didn't fall for us.

We haven't been sleeping on the rights, or asleep at the wheel, in this case.

We didn't come out with any intensity. We looked like we were asleep in the first inning. You can't give a team like Central a five run advantage to start the game and expect to win.

When you see them laying there, it's more along the lines that they're asleep and all you have to is touch them and they'll wake up. But when you see them being put in the ground . . . it makes you feel like you could have been there to do something.

Those are areas where the people were probably asleep when the water rushed in.

We were a little asleep in the first 15 minutes. They scored twice before we really got rolling.

We'll see. If I don't get an answer before this evening, I'll take 25 pills and gently fall asleep into another world.

Those with four or more electronic devices in their bedroom were twice as likely to fall asleep in school.

To avoid congestion, I get up at 5:10, grab a slice of raisin toast, and leave the house at 6 A.M. My husband, Tim Dunn, who works for an environmental agency, is still asleep when I slip out, and I find that rather annoying.

When children are little, their sleep pressure rises faster so they fall asleep early, but when it's slower, like it is for teenagers, it's harder to get to sleep.

We kind of fell asleep a little bit. Defensively, you can't do that. But it was a great effort the way they came back.

This tornado occurred at 2 o'clock in the morning, one of the most dangerous times that a tornado can occur. People are not watching TV, it is dark outside, you can't see the tornado. Most are asleep at that hour.

When men were all asleep the snow came flying, / In large white flakes falling on the city brown, / Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, / Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.

The government is asleep -- there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions,

We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.

We fell asleep a little bit in the second half and we got away from some of the things that got us a lead.

We fell asleep a little bit defensively, and we couldn't recover.

We got off to a bad start against the wrong team. I hold myself partly responsible, falling asleep on their second goal.

Bo was asleep when we got there, but his wife had (Bud Light) and crackers ready for us. There weren't a lot of what people would consider to be wholesome meals during the search.

Believe me, those 20-some minutes make a difference. It's the difference between you falling asleep in the fourth quarter or being awake for the end of the game.

At 5:45 in the morning, most of us are asleep anyway, so there really wasn't a whole lot to do and there wasn't anything that was required.

Early on, treating (sleep apnea) was largely a lifestyle issue because people were falling asleep in the day and this would help them feel better.

I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.

I've been fascinated with severe weather since I was four, when I saw a tornado at night in my mom and grandmother's southeast Minnesota hometown while everyone else was asleep - an experience I encoded in 'The Stormchasers.'

I understand that she was asleep last night and her daughter went in to wake her up and she was not able to and so she quietly slipped away. Her spirit will remain with us just as her husbands has.

I've learned very quickly to fall asleep wherever I can. I sleep in the car from event to event or show to show sometimes.

Often, psychological laziness will have you switch your life over to autopilot and fall asleep at the wheel rather than stay awake to what will fulfill your heart's deepest desires and your soul's purpose.

The moon is at her full, and, riding high,Floods the calm fields with light.The airs that hover in the summer skyAre all asleep to-night.

Anybody who was asleep through all of this is getting jolted awake. A lot of people are back to where they were when they originally started investing.

As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all the stuff that has to get done in the course of a day. When the children are asleep in their beds, I can go where I really need to go in my head.