Zone Quotes - Page 22

• I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

  Moby

  Sleep, Kids, Insomnia

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• As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Lying, Middle East, Needs

  "Benjamin Netanyahu on Alleged Rift With President Obama, Mideast Peace Process". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 11, 2010.

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• I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.

  George Osborne

  Moving, Done, Financial

  "George Osborne accused of misleading public over UK bankruptcy claim" by Phillip Inman, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.

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• It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Stupid, Comfort, Sometimes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

  Danica Patrick

  Comfort, Comfort Zone

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• The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

  Danica Patrick

  School, Class, Lasts

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• If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

  Robert Pattinson

  Running, War, People

  "Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart's Wild Rid". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 4, 2009.

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• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  Karl Pilkington

  Book, Holiday, Sleep

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

  Robert Plant

  Comfort, Hanging On, Stuff

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• Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

  Chris Rock

  Careers, Comedian, Comfort

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2004.

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• You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

  Jessica Savitch

  War, Racing, Robbery

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.

  Jane Seymour

  Wine, Sleep, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

  Jalal Talabani

  People, Welcome, Protection

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• I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year.

  Gerard Way

  New Year, Twilight, Years

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• Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

  Francis Collins

  Important, Comfort, Venture

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• All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in.

  Vir Das

  Fun, Play, Urban

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• Whatever movies I sign, they have to get me out of my comfort zone. Otherwise, I would get bored very easily.

  Vir Das

  Bored, Comfort, Comfort Zone

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• On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Mean, Sleep, Voice

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• This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Mistake, Thinking

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.286, W. W. Norton & Company

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• This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . . Next stop The Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Reality, Land

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• I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Men, Hands

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• People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

  Banksy

  Country, Military, Army

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• So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Pain, Men, Dying

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.580, Penguin

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• It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.

  Anne Lamott

  Twilight, Waiting, Parent

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• Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sea, House, Video

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.115, Penguin

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