Quotes About Somnolence

#1. Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with a start after extreme anxiety.' But a start against whom? Who has stuffed us to the point of somnolence?

Tom McDonough

#2. The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.' That will be useful.

Virginia Woolf

#3. Food comas - known as postprandial somnolence by people who liked to get bean up during recess - are fine when you're relaxing with friends or family, but they're a major setback when you have exams and papers to write.

Stefanie Weisman

#4. Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiarly obtrusive element in the outer world, but lapsing again quickly into the happy somnolence of imagination.

Bertrand Russell

#5. A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

Pam Brown

#6. America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

John McAfee

#7. The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

Ellen Glasgow

#8. No. I wouldn't screw Duke with someone else's ten foot pole.

Debra Anastasia

#9. I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.

Wallace Stegner

#10. Don't be a slave of 3 S's: Salt, Sugar and Sex.

Vinita Kinra

#11. I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

Larisa Oleynik

#12. One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.

Stephen Fry

#13. Wait until the sun sets tonight, and if we are both here to see it, then my heart will break knowing you are safe and yet not to be mine. If you are gone, then my heart will break knowing that God has taken you home ...
Gordian Pierce

Kim Harrison

#14. There are those who will immediately be drawn to the idea of pattern-seeking, and

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#15. A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf

Harold Larwood

#16. Diaries are very futile. I must be all dream or all deed. It is quite impossible for me to express any of the beauty I feel to half the degree I feel it; and yet it is a great pleasure to seize an impression and lock it up in words: you feel as if you had it safe forever.

Wallace Stevens

#17. People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.

Anthony Robbins