"With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Insomnia Quotes #Awake Quotes

“Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.”

Source : "Malcolm-Jamal Warner on Bill Cosby: 'It's Painful to Watch My Mentor Go Through This'". Interview with Joe Lynch, www.billboard.com. January 21, 2015.
“I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.”
“Anyone can leave the body and do astral traveling, but they have to believe that ' they can do ' this. It is quite useless for a person to put out repelling thoughts of disbelief, or thoughts such as 'I cannot do' such a thing. Actually, it is remarkably easy to Astral Travel when one gets over the first hurdle of fear. Fear is the great brake.”
“But facts are facts and flinch not.”
“In the Senate race I went for some candidate endorsement meetings and three people there asked me: Do you go to a therapist? Because they could not believe that with the beating I took in the mayor's race I could still come in there cracking jokes and talking about the issues!”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“I do not want to work to correspond to an image.”
“I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.”

Source : O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.131, Delphi Classics
“But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.”

Source : Meb Keflezighi (2010). “Run to Overcome: The Inspiring Story of an American Champion's Long-Distance Quest to Achieve a Big Dream”, p.176, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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