Naptime Quotes & Sayings

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot. — Weegee

Blessing: Constructive thought directed toward anyone or condition. You bless a man when you recognize the divinity in him. — Ernest Holmes

A minimum-wage law, a law that prevents employers and employees from entering into mutually beneficial economic exchanges, is as far from a free market or free enterprise as one can get. That's why it causes so much damage and destruction, especially to black teenagers and others whose labor, for one reason or another, is valued by employers at less than the government-established minimum wage. — Jacob G. Hornberger

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart. — Johnny Knoxville

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying. — R.L. Stine

poverty and powerlessness are cornerstones of the dependency people with disabilities experience. — James I. Charlton

I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role. — John Cameron

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it. — Lisa Cholodenko

My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

George watches a dog cross the square through the noise and stop to sniff at something then amble off again as if nothing unusual is happening, so maybe something like this just happens here every week. Then, above the heads of everyone in the city, above the highest-tossed of the flags, church bells here and there announce midnight and as if they've been enchanted the next team after that to do a routine does it without drums and bugles but with its musicians humming instead, in tuneful voices and with a gentleness that seems sweet and absurd after the great din of the teams that have gone before. If only all ceremonials and pomp got hummed like that, her mother says. — Ali Smith

I can't nap when you're talking. And I need my naptime. If not, I'll end up driving off the road on the way to the airport tomorrow. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right - so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else? There must be some reason. I don't know. I've never known it. I'd like to understand. — Ayn Rand

I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. I think if we were very wise we would use that same tradition in video cassettes, in movies, and on radio. — Rudolfo Anaya