“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Variant: I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
A Roland for an Oliver (1819), Act I, scene i http://books.google.com/books?id=nWtbAAAAQAAJ&q=%22I+eat+well+and+I+drink+well+and+I+sleep+well+but+that's+all%22&pg=PA16#v=onepage.
“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Variant: I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 31
Context: And thus our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts that I might make, saying full comfortably: I may make all thing well, I can make all thing well, I will make all thing well, and I shall make all thing well; and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of thing shall be well.
“Did you sleep well?"
"No, I made a couple of mistakes.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“I love films, I eat, sleep and drink them, and genre definitely had a huge impact.”
Olly Blackburn Film director and screenwriter
[The Skinny, Scotland, http://www.theskinny.co.uk/film/features/44237-director_olly_blackburn_talks_donkey_punch, Radge Media, 10 November 2008, 23 February 2012, Director Olly Blackburn talks Donkey Punch, Michael, Gillespie]
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded (1931)
“Do you have any trouble sleeping at night? [Reply] No, sir. I sleep very well.”
Eddie Mair (1965) Scottish broadcaster
Question to the Sudanese ambassador concerning the government's complicit stance towards Janjaweed atrocities in Darfur[citation needed]
From PM and Broadcasting House
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 18
Context: The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.