I Quotes
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“Insomnia is an indication, not a chaos. Its like ache. Youre not going to provide a patient ache medicine without figuring out whats reasoning the pain.”
“Insomnia is different,' I said. It was hard to explain this to people. 'You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That's what it's like in my head. The light stays on.”
Source: Animal Dreams
“Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.”
Source: The Course of Love
“Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.”
“Insomnia is only mind over mattress.”
“Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.”
“Insomnia, then, is not just a state of sleeplessness, a matter of negatives. It involves the active pursuit of sleep. It is a state of longing.”
Source: Insomnia
“Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.”
“Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.”
“Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate with the insomniac state. Much here is fascinating, and much is upsetting; here is a cri de coeur from a lifetime insomniac that is sure to appeal to the vast army of fellow insomniacs the world over.”
“Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.”
Source: By Nightfall
“Insomniacs know that there is something about the night. A darkness, an energy, a mystery that shrouds things. It hides things at the same time as it illuminates them. It is this thing that allows us to examine our thoughts in a way that we can't during the day. It is this thing that brings truth and clarity.”
Source: Nocte
“Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.”
“Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.”
“Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.”
Source: Past, Present, and Future
“Inspection No 1
In the underdown
Of my mind,
Find crack of secrets
Cellar damp,
And in their naked
Fact Unequal
To the moulded fur
Of expectation
In which they simmer.
This summer I will
Usher them out in pairs
To do a writing dance
Of drying death
Then toss amongst
My memories to
Find some curling more.”
“Inspection No. 2
I plucked
The flea
From my ear
And ate it;
No wonder
I have this
In digestion.”
“Inspection No. 3
On a single dead white bough
Of a single death white tree
Is scratched a mark
Of the hooded hawk's want
Talon probes in drying sinew
Hungry vulture slumped in a dying land
Unseeled eye pouring a glaze to the world's end
Rattling dags in the memories seed
Shade of disaster tearing a sign
In warning spaces
No sick prey for him to tend
Wing-weak without his stoop
His beak turns inwards”
“Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.”
“Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.”
Source: The Pearl Thief
“Inspector Narracott was a very efficient officer. He had a quiet persistence, a logical mind and a keen attention to detail which brought him success where many another man might have failed. He was a tall man with a quiet manner, rather far-away grey eyes, and a slow soft Devonshire voice.”
Source: The Sittaford Mystery
“Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm evidence of voluntary and total disarmament. Saddam Hussein has the responsibility to provide that evidence, as directed, and in full”
“Inspectorul a scos un teanc de hîrtii. A început a mîzgăli hîrtia.
— E adevărat că ai vorbit copiilor despre Ion-vodă cel Cumplit?
— E adevărat. Trebuia să vorbesc. E în programă.
— E adevărat că ai spus că Ion Armeanul i-a tăiat pe boieri şi chiar pe preasfinţitul mitropolit al Moldovei, în ziua de Paşte?
— E adevărat. Scrie la carte.
— E adevărat că ai povestit copiilor cum l-au vîndut boierii pe domnitor, turcilor?
— E adevărat. Scrie la Cartea de citire.
— E adevărat că ai stăruit asupra faptului că Ion Armeanul îi iubea pe ţărani şi-i ura pe boieri?
— E adevărat. Scrie...
— Ştiu. La Cartea de citire...
— Atunci...
— E adevărat că la această lecţie ţi-ai dat osteneala să le vorbeşti copiilor frumos?
— E adevărat. Cum să nu fie adevărat?
— De ce aţi făcut asta?
[...]
— Sunt lecţii care îmi plac. Pe acestea le predau cu căldură, cu pasiune chiar... [...] Alte lecţii le predau uscat, acelea care nu-mi plac, de pildă Mihai Viteazul, care i-a legat pe ţărani de pămînt, robindu-i şi mai mult boierilor. Nu-mi place Constantin Brîncoveanu, care a jupuit ţara şi a adunat averi nemăsurate...
[...]
— Dar la Cartea de citire scrie altfel...
— Fals. Fals. Cartea de citire e falsificată în multe locuri. Cunosc adevărul din documente...
— Cu asemenea documente, cu asemenea învăţători, n-avem ce face. Eşti pensionar?
— Da. Cu prelungire în activitate.
— Ţi-am tăiat prelungirea. Părăseşte şcoala.
— O s-o părăsesc...
— Acum!
[...]
— Să trăiţi, copii! Să rămîneţi sănătoşi şi să nu uitaţi a citi cartea cum nu e scrisă, cum v-am învăţat eu. [...] Adevărul, să căutaţi adevărul în cărţi. Sînt şi cărţi mincinoase. Multe. Să învăţaţi a le deosebi pe cele bune de cele rele...”
Source: پابرهنهها
“Inspiratie? Het is geen kwestie van naar de lucht staren en wachten tot er een briljant idee uit komt vallen.”
Source: Webdesign van concept tot realisatie
“Inspiratie is de beste motivatie”
Source: Wat een baas: Een eerlijk boek over zelfstandig ondernemerschap
“Inspiration always arrives unannounced.”
“Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.”
“Inspiration and genius -one and the same.”
“Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.”
“Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.”
“Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.”
“Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.”
“Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.”
“Inspiration before intercourse.”
Source: Lure of Obsession
“Inspiration can be fleeting. Self-motivation is everlasting if it is sincere.”
Source: Training For Ultra: Ultra Running Stories From the Middle of the Pack
“Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.”
“Inspiration can come from anywhere - an image, a comment, something that's happened to me or someone I know. It's hard to know exactly.”
“Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.”
“Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.”
“Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin as legend would have us believe. I think inspiration comes from concentration, and early on I learned about Mark Twain's habit of leaving for his study after breakfast and not reappearing until the end of the day, ready to read to his family what he had just written. That set a good example for me, although I didn't copy his habit of taking twelve cigars along.”
“Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.”
“Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.”
Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination
“Inspiration comes from all different places.”
“Inspiration comes from books, music, films and of course, living memories and life experiences, my own and those of people I've known or met; the casual glimpse from the stranger or the life and death of the close relative; to breathe, for a moment, a Chekhovian air, it's all song and ice.”
“Inspiration comes from displacement. Get out of your comfort zone, the rewards are legion.”
“Inspiration comes from doing.”
“Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and its hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.”
“Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.”
“Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.”
“Inspiration comes from imagination!”