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I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom. -- Samuel West
Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day. -- Mason Cooley
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime. -- Red Skelton
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
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. -- Caroline Kennedy
I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life. -- Mark Harmon
I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything. -- Roma Downey
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember. -- Louise Brown
I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted. -- Ina Garten
Fuckin' A. Bedtime." -- Jamie McGuire
All writers are vampires. -- James Gandolfini
I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes. -- John Legend
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call -- Bill Walsh
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry. -- Thomas Perry
Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me. -- Adam Sandler
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. -- Lytton Strachey
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. -- Ed Koch
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. -- Peter Straub
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood. -- Wole Soyinka
It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West! -- Greg Bear
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. -- Stanley Schmidt
Some boy nuh know dis, dem only come around like tourist. On the beach with a few club sodas. Bedtime stories, and pose like dem name Chuck Norris and don't know the real hardcore. -- Damian Marley
When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move... I'm locking the door now.' -- Dylan Moran
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. -- William Gibson
I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.' -- Adam Sandler
I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'" -- Adam Sandler
Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner. -- Siri Hustvedt
Steven, my friend who came out to me my senior year, was a huge Madonna fan. So I may know all the words to 'Bedtime Stories,' 'Erotica,' and a few more of her albums - and we may have watched 'Truth or Dare' a thousand times. -- Jason Mraz
I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom." -- Samuel West
That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime." -- Amanda Ashley
Drink decaffeinated herbal teaBedtime Tea" by Yogi Tea is especially tasty." -- Brett Blumenthal
Who said you had to be short to get a bedtime story?" -- Kem
We are but older children, dear,Who fret to find our bedtime near." -- Lewis Carroll
Love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime." -- Nicholas Sparks
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime." -- Red Skelton
Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes." -- Randy Pausch
White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime." -- Amelia Atwater Rhodes
I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales." -- Arthur Kornberg
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call." -- Bill Walsh
The Garretts were my bedtime story, long before I ever thought I'd be part of the story myself." -- Huntley Fitzpatrick
It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting." -- Lemony Snicket
Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy. -- Cheyenne Jackson
Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy." -- Cheyenne Jackson
A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom." -- Jean Paul Sartre
Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime." -- Beatrix Potter
It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories." -- J. M. Coetzee
So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep." -- Robert Bloch
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story." -- Jerry B. Jenkins
Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child. -- Warren Farrell
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." -- Peter Straub
Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine." -- Rachel Higginson
I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos. -- Vanessa Hudgens
No," said Hermione shortlyHave either of you seen my copy of Numerology and Gramatica?""Oh, yeah, I borrowed it for a bit of bedtime reading," said Ron, but very quietly." -- J. K. Rowling
While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged." -- James Finn Garner
Cigars, of course, are made of trail mix, of crushed cashews and Granola and raisins, soaked in maple syrup and dried in the sun. Why not eat one tonight at bedtime?" -- Kurt Vonnegut
Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during the day, the sleepier you will feel at bedtime. -- Andrew Weil
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." -- Shirley Jackson
I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life." -- Mark Harmon
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance." -- Edwidge Danticat
The colossal might of wickedness, he thought: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime." -- Gregory Maguire
Sacred bleeding fuck,' I said, because, I mean it's one thing to know your crazy hocus brother sees ghosts, and a whole different thing when you find out they're telling him bedtime stories." -- Sarah Monette
My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters." -- Allison Pearson
I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos. -- Vanessa Hudgens
Instead he was staring at me like he was seconds away from getting up and storming across the bar and telling me I was up past my bedtime. He wouldn't dare. Kyler's eyes narrowed. He would." -- Jennifer L. Armentrout
Do we get a bedtime story?" Otto asked cheekilyOh yes, of course. I think we'll have one of my favorites; it's called 'The Little Boy and the Tranquilizer Gun." Raven smiled in a rather unsettling way." -- Mark Walden
In the tapestry of childhood, what stands out is not the splashy, blow-out trips to Disneyland but the common threads that run throughout and repeat: the family dinners, nature walks, reading together at bedtime, Saturday morning pancakes." -- Kim John Payne
Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction. -- Paul Auster
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." -- Jim Gaffigan
I do see a lot of my kids, but sometimes I feel as though we have snatched moments. I turn up half way through something, or I only see her at bedtime. I'd like there to be more." -- Steve McFadden
I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything." -- Roma Downey
It didn't seem the right time to tell him where the worst monsters hide. They conceal themselves cleverly inside our heads and wait for the moments we're at our most vulnerable - bedtime, or when we're sick or anxious." -- Helen Brown
I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago.""Waitress!" Jonas screamed, clicking his fingers madlyBring two!" then, more quietly,"You want a neck massage? A bedtime story? A bullet in the ear?" -- MaryJanice Davidson
On a perfect day in your perfect little world (and it's always perfect) there is breakfast time, playtime, lunchtime, nap time, snack time, dinnertime, bath time, story time, and bedtime. There is time for everything when you are the timekeeper." -- Karen Maezen Miller
In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted as if they were raising a generation of would-be soldiers. I remember some of my friends' parents who would shake their children's hands at bedtime." -- Ezekiel Emanuel
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales. -- Paul Auster
Ricki Jo," Momma says, "who's on the phone? Tell them it's past your bedtime."I cover the receiver and look over my shoulder at my folks. Right. 'Cause a ten o'clock bedtime is something I want to shout from the mountaintops." -- Alecia Whitaker
Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia." -- Jim Gaffigan
For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I was a child, I have been fascinated by science fiction. My all-time favorite is 'The Foundation Trilogy,' by Isaac Asimov. -- Michio Kaku
I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime. -- Steve Carell
Believe me when I tell you that there is no lie quite so obvious as the one where you try to protest that you have washed your face ready for bedtime while you are still sporting an enormous ear-to-ear purple smile of dried Ribena." -- Nigel Slater
I saw a sign from God, and it said, "Church starts at 8:00 am." I cried out to God saying, "I can't make it because that's too late. Eight am is two hours past my bedtime." I had no idea God was such a party animal." -- Jarod Kintz
We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. -- Demian Bichir
We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose." -- Demian Bichir
At my age an hour's reading before bedtime is essential, and I wisely brought Pamela with me. If any of you has trouble sleeping, I will read aloud to you. I never yet knew anyone who could not fall asleep with Richardson being read aloud to him." -- Shirley Jackson
Kids don't eat fast. They take their time; they talk and laugh. Sometimes it's really annoying, because you're like, 'Come on, it's bedtime!' But try it: You'll fill up before you know it, because it takes 20 minutes for your brain to know your stomach is full. -- Alison Sweeney
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember." -- Louise Brown
My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories. -- Hannah Kent
I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise. -- Padma Lakshmi
I had always been proud of my mom. So she'd never back cookies, or sew a Halloween costume, but she could fight monsters. She was tough and smart, and maybe she didn't read bedtime stories, but she had taught me to defend myself against the things that lurked under beds." -- Rachel Hawkins
I lay there silently,hoarding my small dignity.I did not ask about the gate or the closet.I did not question the bedtime ritualwhere, on the cold bathroom tiles,I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.I did not knowthat my bones,those solids, those pieces of sculpturewould not splinter." -- Anne Sexton
Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day." -- Suzanne Collins
Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared of the dark, and, just as important, allowing me to read secretly, after my bedtime, using the dim hallway light to read by, if I needed to. I always needed to." -- Neil Gaiman
But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I spent too much time playing their games, my mind grew peckish and longed to lose itself in some book I had in my backpack. I was ever hopeful of early bedtimes and long naps." -- Lorrie Moore
Hayden gave me a lopsided smile before turning to OliviaAunt Liz is baking cookies."Her eyes lit up like someone shoved a diamond in her faceCookies? Coca chip?""Uh-huh, but isn't it your bedtime?" asked HaydenYou probably missed out on the chance.""Nooo." She dragged the word out, eyes wide.I shook my head, smilingSo wrong." -- Jennifer L. Armentrout
Today, researchers have identified a strong link between children's sleep patterns and their performance in the classroom. They found simply having a specific bedtime rule makes a profound difference. Children with higher sleep quality are more active and eat healthier foods. All of this research suggests we need to rethink sleep as a core family value." -- Tom Rath
The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages. -- Carl Honore
I'll be at your place tonight, seven thirty.""Does seven thirty mean our reservation is at eight?""Eight fifteen, in case we hit traffic or weather.""Will this mean you'll turn into a pumpkin on the way back, considering we'll probably get home past your bedtime?"Silence then, "Now she gives me smartass and it's still fuckin' cute."" -- Kristen Ashley
If I had a necklace made out of tiny suns, I'd only wear it at night when you could really see it. Sadly, I don't have a necklace like that. The closest thing I have is a necklace made out of those glow in the dark stars you stick to bedroom ceilings. But I only wear that on special occasions, like bedtime." -- Jarod Kintz
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.' -- Nathan Fillion
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'" -- Nathan Fillion
But they simply didn't know Sammy in the late hours, all his virulent bedtime prayers whispered away into his folded hands, releasing his worry and anxiety over the sinful so he could sleep well and fight the devil again in the daylight. And, easefully and kindly, he'd hold Abby in his arms, becoming just as lost as everyone else, just as blind in the dark." -- Timothy Schaffert
From candlelight to early bedtime, I read. -- Thomas Jefferson
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp. -- J. K. Rowling
We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near. -- Lewis Carroll
Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime. -- Charlie Brooker
love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. -- Nicholas Sparks
This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary. -- Johnny Christ
My dad did every single accent under the sun, and he would read bedtime stories. -- Lily James
The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime. -- Shannon Fife
White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings. -- Jim Gaffigan
Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia. -- Alistair Sinclair
Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament. -- Aspen Matis
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps. -- Alexander Fleming
It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting. -- Daniel Handler
Dear Ted Thanks for the invitation to question four distinguished liberal journalists. But 11:30 PM is long past my bedtime -- Patrick Buchanan
The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction. -- Russell Baker
Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot! -- J. K. Rowling
There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves. -- John Dufresne

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