"I donâ€™t know if youâ€™ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. Thatâ€™s why Iâ€™m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning."

-- Stephen Chbosky

#Sleep Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife â€” a tyrannical midwife.”

Source : Stephen Spender's lecture at Brooklyn College, as quoted in "The New York Times", November 20, 1984.
“No one has more time than you have. It is the discipline and stewardship of your time that is important. The management of time is the management of self; therefore if you manage time with God, he will begin to manage you.”

Source : Jill Briscoe (1989). “Before You Say Amen”, Victor Books
“But I really resist categories â€“ that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art â€“ those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.”
“In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.”
“I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.”
“The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.”

Source : Yale University. Art Gallery, Katherine Sophie Dreier (1950). “Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 [presented to Yale University]”
“I was in a taxi the other night, and we started talking about life and the taxi driver goes, 'Chaos and creativity go together. If you lose one per cent of your chaos, you lose your creativity.' I said that's the most brilliant thing I've heard. I needed to hear that years ago.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I am very quick to judge.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.

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