Semi Consciousness Quotes

#1. Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.

Michael Leunig

#2. Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.

Michael Leunig

#3. Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the semi-consciousness. This is called the deceptive and magic-like Bardo of Dream.

Milarepa

#4. I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

Randy Quaid

#5. Never run from one such as me." Her attacker didn't sound human. "You will no' get away. And we like it.

Kresley Cole

#6. I tried to balance the sufferings of the miserable victim against the moral degradation of Memphis, and the truth flashed over me that in large measure the race question involves the saving of black America's body and white America's soul.

Philip Dray

#7. Two things I've learned: 1) you simply cannot change someone's mind on certain issues and 2) some issues are so important you cannot stop trying to.

J.S.B. Morse

#8. Her mind was still tiptoeing along the boundary of consciousness, in that state of semi-waking that spins threads between dream and real, and for a moment she felt herself to be a girl who has come down off a porch to confront a great darkness with a tiny light.

Laini Taylor

#9. The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

John Churton Collins

#11. Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

Robert Breault

#12. Life is like the drama on a stage.
What was once declared as a sin,
perhaps much worse nowadays.

Toba Beta

#13. When she looked at him with those dark eyes, Nassar felt the urge to say something intelligent and deeply impressive. Unfortunately, nothing of the kind came to mind.

Ilona Andrews

#14. We are half awake and semi conscious.

Debasish Mridha

#15. The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

Toni Morrison

#16. Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

Stephen King

#17. If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Thomas Hardy

#18. He sat on a kitchen chair and lifted her onto his lap so her legs straddled his, and then he slipped his hands under her skirt and cupped her backside to drag her closer. Oh f**k. Good news and bad news.
The good news was no underwear.
The bad news was no underwear.

Barbara Elsborg

#19. I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

D.H. Lawrence