"Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Betrayal Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limits to his involvement.”
“Bliss can only come through gratitude, only through enlarging your heart with gratitude. Bliss is the reward of gratitude - the gratitude which is not just wordly or just spoken lip service, but is from the heart - the gratitude of the heart.”
“The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.”
“Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.”

Source : "Cool-head Ted" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.
“Hebb place the Law of Effect at the synaptic level by proposing a correlation model of synaptic modification similar to that of Hayek (1952). This work was seminal in providing a basis for many subsequent theoretical studies . .”
“Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.”

Source : Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.109, Da Capo Press
“"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.”
“What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.”

Source : "Billy Crystal and John Goodman Talk MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, the Mike/Sulley Friendship, and Creating Younger Versions of the Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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