“My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.” MindFoundWishSleepDealsSubjectsChestsGoing To SleepDrawers Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Whatever helps you sleep is my opinion on the subject, and that's what I like about the western world's most popular religion, it has helped put so many people to sleep, although most of them permanently and without their approval.” PeopleWorldHelpingSleepOpinionSubjectsWesternApprovalWestern World Book:Roseanne: my life as a woman Source: Roseanne: my life as a woman
“Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the extent of the negation of man's corporeal self that mathematics achieves cannot be compared with anything. Whoever is interested in this subject I refer to my articles. Here I will say only that the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be discovered, never invented.” MenWorldWayHumansDoeSelfLanguageSleepAchieveSubjectsFieldsDegreesMathematicsPatternsArticlesEndeavourUtteranceNegationInceptionHuman Language Book:His Master's Voice Source: His Master's Voice
“To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.” MenSleepSubjectsFailureShadowForgottenEndlessReputationDustHeatChillSuccessionBlastSleet Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.” ThinkingKnowsWritingRealDreamRealityRememberSongSleepSubjectsCreatingDown AndImpressionWakingTranceDreamworks Author:Van Morrison