Passing Quote by Sherman Alexie Download Open image “Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep” — Sherman Alexie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Passing Passings Pretending Sleep Sometimes
It's not called sleeping it's called taking a really, really, really long nap. — Jay Bui Copy Share Image
This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Insomniacs will be familiar with that disastrous moment as you lie there in the dark, with your eyes shut, when you think, 'What does… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me? — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find… — David F. Dinges Copy Share Image
It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage. — Jon Voight Copy Share Image
You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep. — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
“He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated. Epileptics were… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years have changed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If I kill… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Dear wife, I'm sorry that I am mysteriously incapable of folding clean laundry, but I iron, oh, I iron. Sweetheart, I'll make your white… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonham,' the introduction of John Bonham on the… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my… — John Owen Copy Share Image
