"In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#Sleep Quotes #Insomnia Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.”
“I'm a bloody fun-seeker. Whatever the role is, I'll find a way to deliver the line that is confounding.”

Source : "SALEM: Lucy Lawless Talks Season 2, ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2015.
“Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide”

Source : Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.49, Vintage
“I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.”
“Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.”
“Before I point a finger at anyone, I have to point it at myself first.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.”
“The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order of things. Counter-claims are made that they are the only living and dynamic studies... Both contentions are wrong. Language, Literature and Philosophy express, reflect and contemplate the world. But it is a world in which men will never be content to stay at rest, and so these disciplines cannot be cut off from the great searching into the nature of things without being deprived of life-blood.”

Source : Presidential Address to Classical Association, 1959.

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