Soporific Quotes

#1. A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.

Curnonsky

#2. We were the only customers downstairs in the shop and there were no windows and only two dim bulbs, without shades. There was a pleasant soporific smell, as though the books had stolen most of the air.

Ian McEwan

#3. Now stand in the corner, and think about what you've done!

Taylor Swift

#4. There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

Ezra Pound

#5. Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews

John Hagee

#6. Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

Aaron Copland

#7. I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability.

Dizzy Gillespie

#8. Masquerading in the attire of the opposite sex was a criminal offense, except on Halloween.

Ann Bausum

#9. I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

George Saunders

#10. There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. I discovered Emerson's soporific qualities by falling asleep with my face in the book, drooling all over an essay called 'Self-Reliance' ...

Ransom Riggs

#12. Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

Demi Lovato

#13. The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.

Marcel Proust

#14. Of the twenty- three men and women who served in Dwight Eisenhower's cabinets, only one, the secretary of agriculture, published a memoir afterward, and it was so discreet as to be soporific.

David Brooks

#15. It must be awful to feel you're not needed.

Anne Frank

#16. Dexter, she said with an expression of soporific surprise on her face.

Jeff Lindsay

#17. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

Simon Van Booy

#18. You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

Shelby Lynne

#19. The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.

Edward Norton

#20. There is no refreshment more gratifying to the soul than the sight of Nature in her summer finery, before the heat is at its most intense. She is soothing, but not soporific; intoxicating without inebriation.

M T Anderson

#21. The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.

Thomas Szasz

#22. Web searching and cellphone use both flourish in the wee hours. Before the dawn of the web, I would stay up watching television. But there is something soporific about television: I would often nod off. Not so when I'm online. As technologies expand, these problems may only worsen.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#23. Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

Michael Faraday

#24. Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

Margaret Atwood

#25. We can pray only in Jesus Christ, with whom we shall also be heard.

Eric Metaxas

#26. It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

Beatrix Potter