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“At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that when I finally decide to turn off the library light, I carry into my sleep the voices and the movements of the book I've just closed.”

Book Light Seems Night Turns Reading Voice Sleep Quality Movement Library Various Ghost Muscles Turn Off

Author:Alberto Manguel

“Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.”

Wells Kind Long Turns Judgment Long Time Debate Tricks I Have Learned Long Time Ago Turn Off

Author:Jim Lehrer

“Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.”

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are co-present in family relationships and other relationships, that responsibility is there. You can't just turn off a person. On the Internet, you can.”

People Humans Persons Two Together Certain Turns Human Beings Responsibility Internet Built Get Together Turn Off Family Relationship

Author:Neil Postman

“I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.”

Persons Turns Easy Radio Turn Off Thought Of The Day

Author:A. N. Wilson

“I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.”

People I Can Jobs Hate Turns Watches Comedy Upset Turn Off Being Funny Indigestion

Author:Jenny Eclair

“When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.”

Feels Persons Body Turns Brain Watches Essence Connected Core Who I Am Turn Off

Author:Michelle Branch

“Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.”

Ifs Should Turns Sound Turn Off

Author:Willem Dafoe

“I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Persons Real Turns Girl Wish Bigger Silly Teeth Shallow Creepy Turn Off Bigger Person

Author:Peter Farrelly