Best 70 quotes in «bedtime quotes» category

Before you go to bed think about what you left behind in the wake of the day…

Be my bedtime story and the thoughts that won't let me fall asleep. Be the conversation that I always have in my head at 3 AM and that beautiful voice that never lets me sleep.

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

Enough, woman who needs no sleep! It is past my bedtime! But I will ponder your suggestions in the morning when I wake up, which will be long after you've already risen.

Good night! Good night! Far flies the light; But still God's love Shall shine above, Making all bright, Good night! Good night!

(Frances has gotten out of bed again and come to her parents' room...) 'How can the wind have a job?' asked Frances. 'Everybody has a job,' said Father. 'I have to go to my office every morning at nine o'clock. That is my job. You have to go to sleep so you can be wide awake for school tomorrow. That is your job.' Frances said, 'I know, but...' Father said, 'I have not finished. If the wind does not blow the curtains, he will be out of a job. If I do not go to the office, I will be out of a job. And if you do not go to sleep now, do you know what will happen to you?' 'I will be out of a job?' said Frances. 'No,' said Father. 'I will get a spanking?' said Frances. 'Right!' said Father. 'Good night!' said Frances, and she went back to her room.

I have come to realize that my stupid gestures excites women alot, and if I'm really stupid, i will dare to take them to bed and excite them even more.

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. —Richard Due

I lie in bed most nights, thinking of things.

Thinking about the bed leaves you horny, but thinking beyond the bed gives you honor, freedom and wisdom.

Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings. Once the lights are out, you can expect at least an hour of inmates clanging their tin cups on the cell bars.

I woke myself up to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pillow close up near his cheek because I didn’t want to wake him. He opened one eye and grinned at me. “Don’t waste ’em, kitten.

Lots of children I know are excited to grow up. So I wonder why this man was so happy to become young again?

Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says. No, Olivia, just one." How about four?" Two." Three." Oh, all right, three. But that's it!

So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of dreams. And then tomorrows.

Then as he's tucking me into bed, he's supposed to ask, How many stars? On a great day I'm supposed to say nine or ten. But if it was amazing, the best day I ever had, I'm supposed to cheat and say something like ten thousand stars.

All writers are vampires.

till, silently without one peep, the angels come, their watch to keep. They'll hold you safe while dreaming deep. The pillow cool beneath your head, all star lit is your feather bed which glides the moonbeams like a sled, above towns which glitter blue and red.

Toilet paper unrolled and slithered then wrapped around my tummy. That paper tried to roll me up into an Egyptian mummy.

And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.

In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder].

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

Like, really like you. And i want that kiss to have been the start of something. Not the end.

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.