Alison Pick Quotes

Sleep nourishes, sure, but it also absolves, removing the demands of the daily, the duties and tasks, and the pesky need to exist.

Alison Pick

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• Absolves

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• If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Beautiful
  • Small
  • Unique

• The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Boy
  • Old

• Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Up
  • Art
  • Walking

• I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Alone

• I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Hope
  • Positive

• The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Care
  • Out

• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • First
  • Read

• If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Up
  • Child
  • Grow

• As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Science
  • Intelligence

• When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Attention
  • Management

• We commute through computers. Spirits stay mute while our ego spread rumors. We're survivalists turned to consumers

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Ego
  • Rumors

• And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Up
  • Night
  • Deep

• Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.

  

  Anthony Kennedy

• Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

  

  Leo Burnett
  • Fun

• One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. (5 February 1943)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Time
  • Good
  • Remember

• I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - 'Pennies from Heaven' - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.

  

  Little Richard
  • People
  • Family
  • Heaven

• It's ignorance, and it's upsetting. Look at the young; they have no idea how great this country is because they never have been outside of it.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • Great
  • Country
  • Ignorance

• I do think it's very important, if you're going to spend the rest of your life with somebody, to know that you really like them. Because when the pheromones wear off, which of course they will, you have to have a strong basis.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Life
  • Important
  • Strong

• I love those skies, thin blue or snowy gray, Those fields sparse-planted, rendering meagre sheaves; That spring, briefer than apple-blossom’s breath, Summer, so much too beautiful to stay, Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves, And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Sleep

• Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Sleep
  • Animal

• Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on." "Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question. "Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?" "Because," I whispered, "it's who I am." Sounds like a good reason to me.

  

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  • Moments
  • Reason
  • Sleep

• Sleep nourishes, sure, but it also absolves, removing the demands of the daily, the duties and tasks, and the pesky need to exist.

  

  Alison Pick
  • Sleep
  • Nourishes
  • Absolves