Spalding Gray Quotes

And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

Spalding Gray

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• When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • High
  • Pretty

• For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Work
  • Kitchen
  • Class

• I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Sleep
  • Conversation
  • Weakness

• You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Night
  • Feeling
  • Day

• The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Way
  • Class

• Class is more important than a game.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Important
  • Game
  • Class

• Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Up
  • You
  • Sleep

• You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Man
  • Class
  • Encouraging

• I still sleep with my baby blanket.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Sleep
  • Baby
  • Blanket

• I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sleep
  • Awake

• Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• She curled up on the pallet and stared into the dark, praying for a peaceful sleep.Prayers didn’t do no good, oui. Antonio chased her all night. (In the book Antonio, her father, beats and sexually abuses her long-term; she eventually kills him)

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Live
  • Country
  • Home

• Moms get their fair share of conflicting advice, with a heaping of unsolicited advice. Parents debate the pros/cons of different types of disposable diapers, whether the supposed carcinogens in Johnson & Johnson baby products hurt their kids who used it, which method of sleep training to use.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I submerged myself in his life. Before I went to sleep at night, that's what I was watching. The videos would literally be going on while I was sleep; that's what I was hearing in my sleep. I woke up in the morning, Tupac.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Night

• My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

  

  Ahmet Zappa
  • Work
  • Father
  • Night

• When I'm painting and in the zone, it's difficult for me to stop. It can take me half a day to get into that space, and once I do, I only talk to a certain few people who won't disrupt it. Home to sleep and back at it, nothing else outside of getting food. Everything else is an annoyance getting in my way.

  

  Amy Sherald
  • People
  • Home
  • Food

• When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.

  

  James Lafferty
  • Trying
  • Sleep

• I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Sleep
  • Deep
  • Violet

• A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Light
  • Sleep
  • Insomnia

• You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Live
  • Die
  • Christian

• Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Time
  • She
  • Moments

• Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

  

  George Eliot
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Rage

• And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Sleep
  • Class
  • Climbing