"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." 

     - Edgar Allan Poe 

If a man says something in a forest and there is
no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong? 

"Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of
 ascension."

-- In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers

"Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously;
and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously." 

- Booth Tarkington 

It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out.
They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their
heads in a nodding position.

    -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Edison Supervisor of News Information, responding to a
    charge by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspector that two Dresden Nuclear Plant
    operators were sleeping on the job.