Central Quotes

“Their bedroom has always been our sanctuary. Sometimes at night we'll end up on their bed just talking. My dad will be snoring and Mia will say, "Turn around, Bobby, you're snoring," and he'll turn around and for a moment it'll be silent. Then he'll erupt into a massive snore and Luca and I will kill ourselves laughing and my dad will wake up and bark, "Get to bed!" and not even a second later he'll be snoring and we'll kill ourselves laughing again and Mia will say, "What is this? Grand Central Station?”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

“The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan

“High altitude induced central sleep apnea is a dirty secret of professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“Only in a national economy that is largely self-contained can a national central bank be a true central bank; with the development of world market, and (especially) of world financial markets, national central banks take a step down, becoming single banks in a worldwide system, not at the 'centre' any longer. Thus the problem that was (partially) solved by the institution of national central banks has reappeared, and it is still unsolved (though we are trying to solve it), on the world level.”
― John Hicks

“The astronomy managers never told us about the central sleep apnea risks, even though we would work and sleep at high altitude.”
― Steven Magee

“There was no monitoring of astronomy staff for central sleep apnea, even when we would sleep at high altitude.”
― Steven Magee

“When I worked the day shift at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, a registered nurse came to visit and commented that my breathing during sleep was irregular. I had no idea what altitude induced central sleep apnea was at that time and ignored the comment. Many years later I was diagnosed with a variety of sleep disorders.”
― Steven Magee

“Keeping a human in a state of altitude induced central sleep apnea for many years should be expected to bring on a wide range of adverse health conditions.”
― Steven Magee

“After five years of visits to four different sleep doctors, I was eventually diagnosed with positional sleep apnea.”
― Steven Magee

“Sleeping at high altitudes is known to cause Central Sleep Apnea.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“Combining drugs with high altitude induced central sleep apnea is a really bad idea!”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude