Somnubuvorus Quotes & Sayings

Though he'd trusted her with his life countless times, it felt much more frightening to trust her with his shame — Leigh Bardugo

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought. — B.H. Liddell Hart

You are your own star. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves. — Arthur L. Williams Jr.

But I was strong enough. I made it through the misery, until misery became normality. I find it ironic that when I finally became okay with the life I created inside 6E - that is when I ended up leaving it. — Alessandra Torre

I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our tribal roots. — John Mackey

We need more hope. We need more mercy. We need more justice. — Bryan Stevenson

To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike. — Valentino Rossi

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality. — Grace Paley

[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile to the insanity defense, more mistrustful of defense attorneys and less concerned about the danger of erroneous convictions. — Thurgood Marshall

What's a Somnubuvorus?'
'It looks like a cross between a boabab and a turnip, and about the size of a telephone box. It's actually not a plant at all but a fungus that releases puffs of hallucinogenic spores into the breeze. Anyone who inhales them suddenly becomes convinced that being near the Somnubuvorus will enlighten and enrich them with hard-hitting and devastatingly relevant social and political commentary. Then, of course, you are soon overcome with a sense of listlessness and torpidity, and fall fast asleep'.
'It sounds like what would happen if you weapoinised French cinema — Jasper Fforde

When I think about dropping team sports and picking up surfing and also then geeking out radio control planes and gadgetry and all that stuff I love, that's what really now has led me in big part to GoPro. — Nick Woodman

The woman in front of him was perfect. Her sweet curved lips and flushed cheeks. The way her long eyelashes batted when she blinked and the incredible scent of cinnamon from her soft skin, she was the only thing that he'd finally gotten right. She was the only thing that mattermattered. No matter how far away he could run, the image of her would always be in at the back of his mind. — Diyar Harraz

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success — Fred Wilson

Are we playing Faster Fingers or are we thinking?" Faster Fingers was their code for supplanting brain/memory with Google Search. — David Cronenberg