Alistair Sinclair famous quotes

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
-- Alistair Sinclair

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But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.