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“Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.”

Mind Body Night Hours Sleep Watches Minutes Tvs Bed Eight Critical Nine Slow Down Disturbing Invigorating

Author:Richard Simmons

“A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but that by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events. For when the reality of a situation is diminished, people are able to react to it less emotionally, more as spectators.”

People Real Reality Able Situation Events Possibility Television Distinction Steady Sensitivity Viewers Spectators Disturbing Unreal

Book:Plug in Drug

Source: Plug in Drug

“Everything must go its own way. One has to plow in order to sow, one has to sow in order to harvest, and what is disturbing has to be weeded out, like a bad weed.”

Way Order Weed Harvest Disturbing Everything Must Go

Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

“The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.”

Feels Should Persons Belief Grief Events Emotional Capacity Disturbing

Author:Jennifer Armintrout

“When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.”

People World Way Firsts Play Beautiful Film Found Exposed Frank Portraits Disturbing Bergman

Author:Wallace Shawn

“Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.”

Spirit Modern Poet Cherish Disturbing

Author:Stanley Kunitz

“Actuated by these motives, and apprehensive of disturbing the repose of an unsettled reign, Julian surprised the world by an edict which was not unworthy of a statesman or a philosopher. He extended to all the inhabitants of the Roman world the benefits of a free and equal toleration; and the only hardship which he inflicted on the Christians was to deprive them of the power of tormenting their fellow-subjects, whom they stigmatised with the odious titles of idolaters and heretics.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!”

Men Universe Women Elements Disturbing Men Women

Author:Marah Ellis Ryan

“I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.”

Ifs Past Memories Wonderful Swim Swimming Toes Boston Disturbing Ponds Turtles Fond Memories Walden Pond

Author:Mark Haddon

“A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.”

Government President Term Millions Possibility Seasons Constitution Campaigns Barack Guarantees Disturbing Alarms President Barack Obama Limited Government

Author:James Dobson

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.”

“What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.”

“I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.”

Men Children Made Father Difficult Directors Absence Contrary Factors Disturbing

Author:Michael Haneke

“Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It longs for something better, and finds it, I guess, as much as anything is ever found anymore. It's a mean, sweet, wry, and disturbing book, in equal portions.”

Mean Book Found Sweet Equal Portions Reach Out Sixty Glimpse Disturbing Something Better Hereafter Wry

Author:Frederick Barthelme

“As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being.”

“UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.”

Tales Frightening Gorgeous Disturbing Hideous Spun

Author:Jonathan Maberry

“I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.”

“If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.”

Ifs Made Funny Death Social Party Dying Function Favors Grants Disturbing Pumpkin Tiptoes Sneaking Up Sneaking Around Sneaking Out

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.”

People Found Joyful Disturbing Great Experiences

Author:Noah Baumbach

“I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.”

Writing Together Middle Style Working Together Disturbing

Author:Norman Mailer

“Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.”

Mean Water Conditions Tears Weapons Slavery Cooperation Complaints Disturbing Reducing Water Power

Author:Alfred Adler

“The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.”

Life Ideas Self Next Emotion Modern Blame Disturbing Modern Life Fright

Author:Marilyn Ferguson

“These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.”

Should Ideas Seems Science Perception Evidence Mathematics Deny Extras Overwhelming Disturbing Sensory Discredit Telepathy Sensory Perception

Author:Alan Turing

“In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.”

Way Doe Able Actors Individual Dark Audience Mass Theater Crowds Bother Disturbing

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!”

“It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!”

Possibility Suicide Free Will Disturbing Conundrums

Author:Yogi Berra

“A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.”

Book Dream Desire Wish Forget Novel Impossible Madness Remains Monkeys Disturbing Paws Impossible To Forget

Author:Neil Gaiman

“My father . . . used to say, 'I need my anger. It obliges me to take action.' I think my father was partly right. Anger arises, naturally, to signal disturbing situations that might require action. But actions initiated in anger perpetuate suffering. The most effective actions are those conceived in the wisdom of clarity.”

Thinking Needs Might Action Used Suffering Father Situation Arise Clarity Signals Disturbing

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.”

Has Beens Problem Social Economic Economics Conviction Disturbing Social Science Theorists Economic Problems

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“I love to disturb people, because only by disturbing them you can make them think. They have stopped thinking for centuries. Nobody has been there to disturb them. People have been consoling them. I am not going to console anybody... Because the more you console them, the more retarded they remain. Shog them, hit them hard, give them challenge. That challenge will bring their full capacities to the climax.”

People Thinking Love Giving Has Beens Hard Challenges Century Capacity Disturbing Console Retarded Climax Consoling

Book:The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press

Source: The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press

“There's this huge controversy over the fact that President Bush apparently received credit for National Guard service in Alabama in '72 and '73 even though his commanding officers are saying he never reported. I think what's even more disturbing is that he received enough credits to graduate from Yale.”

Thinking Enough Facts President Huge Credit Officers Graduates Controversy Disturbing President Bush Alabama Yale National Guard

Author:Jay Leno

“There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.”

Has Beens Moments Might Known Satisfaction Realization Might Have Been Disturbing

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“I prefer to subscribe to that whole, “everything happens for a reason” theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about.”

Thinking Reason Whole Happens Theory Things Happen Alternatives Disturbing Everything Happens For A Reason Happens For A Reason

Book:Watch Me

Source: Watch Me

“I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Ideas Done Lying Night Hours Creative Week Bed Quiet Awake Crash Midnight Disturbing One Night

Author:Tom Ford

“When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.”

Ifs Humans Character Brother Tragic Brothers And Sisters Disturbing Human Family

Author:Julia Alvarez

“It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.”

People Use Political Certain Christ Christianity Support Teaching Agendas Disturbing Political Agendas

Author:Anne Rice

“This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace.”

Way Said War Justice Enemy Poverty Charity Bounds Terror Smarter Disturbing Cheaper Ending Poverty Distressing Well Said World Poverty War On Poverty

Author:Edward de Bono

“He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.”

Fear Future Concern Dare Disturbing

Book:The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it.”

“Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.”

May Hard Hard Work Type Healthy Constitution Presses Including Golden Programming Awards Disgusting Bowls Globes Disturbing Super Bowl Free Press

Author:Mike Rogers

“Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.”

Matter Eye Challenges Painting Balance Findings Disturbing Reassuring Consoling

Author:Paul Kane

“The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love. Passion is the impelling factor, imagination the disturbing factor; and the disturbance of passion by imagination produces love.”

Men Passion Imagination Produce Tasks Factors Disturbing Reproduction Disturbance Love Passion

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)

“I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.”

Way Matter Stories Use Make Sense Upset Disturbing

Author:Grant Morrison

“But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.”

Thinking Young Bits Honest Possibility Being Honest Fixed Immortal Disturbing Limitless Can't Change Inventing Invincible

Author:Damien Hirst

“There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.”

Men Hours Loses Mystery Capable Ordinary Charm Immortal Possessed Decay Entity Unseen Disturbing Intriguing Ordinary Things Himalayas Alps

Author:Frank Smythe

“We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.”

Stars Flower Disturbing Pluck

Author:Loren Eiseley

“But I've never met a racist yet who thinks he's a racist. That's always the disturbing thing about when we begin to look at ourselves.”

Thinking Looks Mets Racist Disturbing Disturbing Things

Author:Norman Jewison

“The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over.”

Needs Hard Seems Impossible Share Elements Frightening Disturbing

Author:Carl Rogers

“There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.”

Thinking Facts Photograph Torture Offensive Disturbing Really Deep

Author:Errol Morris

“In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.”

People Has Beens Religious Poor Groups Highest Greed Divorce Priorities Homosexuality Poor People Disturbing Elevation Callousness

Author:Jimmy Carter