Florence Nightingale Quotes

Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!

I can't drink anything after 9 P.M. otherwise I'm up all night.

I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.

Ever tried to get sleep in a hospital? Ever wonder if anyone even taught them what care is? Some hospitals are great, but some sure aren't.

I'm a light sleeper, but so long as I'm wearing earplugs, I sleep well.

I never get enough sleep, even when I travel. I wake up in the middle of the night, either with the help of my kids or because my mind is going. I wish I got eight hours a night, but it is more like an interrupted six or seven. The secret is to go to sleep well before midnight.

Without question, I wake every night five times.

I sleep at night, but I don't sleep well.

Some of the elements of sleep hygiene are basically the same as good health practices. Nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol all negatively impact sleep, the more so the closer they're consumed to bedtime.

Stay away from screens, especially those LED screens. Those blue-light emitting devices fool your brain into thinking that it's still daytime, even though it's night-time and you want to get to sleep.

I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.

Sometimes I don't sleep well.

I have my phone by my bed - I know everyone says you're supposed to turn it off - and it distorts your sleep, and they're probably right.

Light is a profound degrader of our sleep.

The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.

We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

I would love to have the power to stop waking at 3 a.m. every night to check my e-mail.