Sherman Alexie Quotes

When a contestant actually loses consciousness, I think that's a good sign.

You fainted," I told Tank. "I did not," Tank said. "That's a lie.

I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.

In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world.

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

And I'm looking at him like, 'Oh my God. This is Michael Jackson'. I fainted, blacked out - like seriously blacked out.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

Hell no ... the last thing I understood was when the guy said hello.

I always felt like, when you're lying, you're kind of pretending to be something you're not.

Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.

If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.

Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spilled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

What magicians we are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into dazzling theater of the world, pulling objects, (people as well as rabbits) out of secret microscopic closets, turning winter into summer, making a palmful of moments disappear through time's trap door. We learned the methods so long ago that they're unconscious, and we've hypnotized ourselves into believing that we're the audience, so I wonder where we served our apprenticeship. Under what master magicians did we learn to form reality so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves the secret?

Faded way too long, I'm floatin in and out of consciousness

When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.

Is he all right?" Jade asked Sterns. He Swooned" I know he swooned," Jade replied.

With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her eyes water most tremendously, a cramp in the back of one knee, and the fact that her new ball gown was getting most awfully wrinkled.

Sleep is death without the responsibility.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.