Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.'
Siri Hustvedt
Related All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of partin... VLADIMIR NABOKOV I got a call from Al. He's an insomniac. We talk in the middle of the night, ... I don't sleep, he d... WINONA RYDER Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children an... TONY DUNGY Sexual harassment is common among today's undergraduate students, so common that it seems normal. ELENA SILVA I'll still be with you every night, Kiera. Every night, no matter where I am, crawling into bed with... S.C. STEPHENS The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets. POPPY Z. BRITE I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular ... JULIAN CASABLANCAS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Only two things don't let someone sleep whole night, Insomnia and Love; and I'm not sure about the i... SYED FAIZAN ALI SHAH I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that ... SEAN COMBS I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the nigh... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call yo... JESSE EISENBERG It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Portia and I constantly say to each other, 'We are so lucky.' Sometimes it's lying in be... ELLEN DEGENERES American women often fall into the trap of, 'Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work... MICHAEL KORS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I'm petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. ... KYLE SCHMID We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go... RICHARD BRANSON Being able to swing in and host the 'Today' show when they call me, it certainly is a new ex... JOHN CENA Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being. MARTIN AMIS I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them h... ADAM LEVINE But here is the single greatest thing about the 'Vanity Fair' party: There are uniformed In-... DIABLO CODY When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone! CALVIN KLEIN The 'love bugs' in the team house were fun to deal with. They were everywhere. We had to stop drivin... IAN CALLAHAN He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to hims... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and ... RENATA ADLER Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep. DAVID ALMOND Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Last night I dreamed I had insomnia. I woke up exhausted, yet too well rested to go back to sleep. BOB INGMAN Stories are a good way to put children to bed at night but they can also bring together and inspire ... ANDY ALLEN Basically we have a tiny little gland in the middle of our brains that controls when we sleep and wh... DR. MEIR KRYGER Some people sleep all alone every nightInstead of taking a lover to bedSome people find that it's ea... BILLY JOEL We had people come into our camp in the middle of the night saying, 'Hey, there's an old folks home,... ROY HALL Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in... HAROLD WILSON Lighted Schoolhouse Night is designed to connect the parents and the children with the school. MARGIE DORSHORST When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As ... ANN HOOD I received a lot of complaints from parents who wrote and told me that their kids wouldn't go to... MILTON BERLE There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the n... DEBI GLIORI I record all night and sleep all day. DAMIAN MARLEY Russian might not be their first language, but they learn it in school. It seems to be a common lang... ELAINE FISCHER It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at... KATE WINSLET Indeed, the night sky is the part of our environment that's been common to all cultures througho... MARTIN REES A sister is the one person you can call in the middle of the night when you can't sleep or the o... DEBORAH TANNEN That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you... CHARLES KELLEY His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours. ARTHUR BAER The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night
With comfort are downward gazing. HEINRICH HEINE I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it. SIRI HUSTVEDT It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the com... JOHN STEINBECK It's common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known ... DOUGLAS BRUNT The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble w... ROSEMARY MAHONEY Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big an... SHAWN MENDES That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too sh... BANANA YOSHIMOTO You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit ... JEN LANCASTER I'm not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and h... ANNA KENDRICK How do you know they are Hunters?" Lucien asked. "They had guns and knives strapped to their bo... GENA SHOWALTER 'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and &... PAT BENATAR So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons,... AL-WALEED BIN TALAL We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sle... JERRY SEINFELD I'm up all night, and then next thing you know, it's the morning, and I'll sleep, like, ... CHRISTINA MILIAN When you're lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep... "I shou... L.R. KNOST I never get enough sleep, even when I travel. I wake up in the middle of the night, either with the ... SUMMER SANDERS He helps everybody he knows. You could call him in the middle of the night, and he'd be there. FRANK VALADEZ Lie you easy, dream you light, And sleep you fast for aye; And luckier may you find the ni... A.E. HOUSMAN The only people who are happy about this, ... are CAIR and the corporate weasels at ABC who go to be... MICHAEL GRAHAM We men are the wearied and the worried lot today.
Women who are themselves wierd, usually call such ... APURVA GAGLANI I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Sa... ANDY SAMBERG It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most abl... BRIAN W. ALDISS Parents should always kiss their children good night, and children should always make sure that thei... EMANOUHL I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, ... PAT NIXON This is Lilly Heaven saying good night, and to all a very good night. Good night everybody. Here's w... JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in... LEONA LEWIS We're not bad guys. We're the guys you call in the middle of the night, the guys who respond to hear... DOMINICK BARBERA I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties... GARY DAVID GOLDBERG In the middle of the night, I saw chaos bleeding out of darkness and peace. Everything that was said... AKSHAY VASU Many of these children's parents were not educated and don't understand that if you don't keep up or... KAI KAWASUGI A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. VICTOR HUGO Some are going to need crickets or other special foods. Reptiles need cages and special lighting. If... JULIE HAFF If even one family can avoid getting that phone call, in the middle of the night, because of this le... JUDY SHEPARD It's funny because before I joined the cast of 'Heroes,' I was an insomniac. I have suff... DANA DAVIS I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The still... MORAG JOSS Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the s... RAFAEL NADAL One name always stands out when it comes to actors taking on the monsters of our nightmares - Robert... ROB MANUEL Lady Utterword: What a lovely night! It seems made for us. Hector: The night takes no interest in us... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each nig... GABRIELLE UNION I liked comedy as a kid. When I was a kid, I'd go to sleep to, like, Bill Cosby albums every nig... STEPHEN COLBERT My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer... DAN PINK My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer... DANIEL H. PINK Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant,... JHUMPA LAHIRI You are like a god, like an immortal one,' she whispered to me one night in our bed, her naked body ... ROMAN PAYNE I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation. IDA LUPINO Without the Dreamscape, we can’t sleep. My parents remind me all the time about stories their... SHANNON DUFFY I'm so tired when I climb into bed at night, I fall right asleep. FERN STAPLETON My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night. DANIELLE STEEL I've worked a lot during the night. But I don't sleep in the day either. ENRIQUE IGLESIAS I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events... CARA DELEVINGNE Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make! BRAM STOKER Bedtime makes you realize how completely incapable you are of being in charge of another human being... JIM GAFFIGAN Every highlight they show is him smacking the crap out of the quarterback. So then I put my baby dow... JEFF GRIMES
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