Quotes by category:Naps

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

Martha Stewart

naps time thinking

Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.

Mary Anne Radmacher

naps letting-go writing

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

Mary Karr

emotional naps country

It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?

Mary Roach

light naps believe

I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark.

Mary Oliver

necks dog naps

As one who was never terribly enamored of Hillary Clinton's personality to start with, I grudgingly admit to enjoying her recent near-tears transformation. Plenty of critics concede her rarely seen emotion was heartfelt, but also that it was due to the 20-hour-day rigors of the campaign trail, making her perhaps the only candidate ever to win the New Hampshire primary because she needed a nap. Still, it was refreshing to watch her punch through the icy crust of her own phoniness, so that the molten core of artificiality could gush forth.

Matt Labash

personality naps winning

My mantra is always, "Take a nap first, Matt! Then think." It's silly, but it works.

Matthew Moy

naps silly thinking

It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.

Maxwell Maltz

down-and naps lying

When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.

Mason Cooley

rejection figures naps

Drink lots of water, and nap. I've made some really big messes along the way, whether on the academic side or on the media side. It hasn't been a straight path. But a lot of those mess-ups have led to opportunities, so I guess I'd say be fearless, and keep bottled water with you, so you don't dehydrate.

Melissa Harris-Perry

media naps opportunity

I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.

Maya Angelou

three naps thinking

Regret leads to overeating and naps.

Mason Cooley

overeating regret naps

Yeah, I cut class...I got a D.

Mike G

rap cutting naps

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

Misha Collins

actors naps running

I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

Mohnish Pabrai

hard-times naps past

I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.

Natasha Lyonne

angry naps

With Great power comes great need to take a nap

Nico

percy-jackson-and-the-olympians naps needs

When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

Nora Roberts

tough-times chocolate naps

So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.

Orson Scott Card

next naps want

I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.

Pal Benko

girlfriend eye naps