Bed Quotes - Page 28

• I still go to bed in mascara on the chance I'll be seen a lover.

  Christine Schutt

  Chance, Lovers, Mascara

  Christine Schutt (2012). “Prosperous Friends”, p.164, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed.

  Edward Dorn

  Sleep, Writing, Sick

  Edward Dorn, Joseph Richey (2007). “Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes”, p.41, University of Michigan Press

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• Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

  Andrew Forrest

  Education, Learning, School

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• Playing with the Who is the biggest rush there is. At eleven years old I used to go to bed dreaming about what I'm doing now. I don't know how many people can say that.

  Zak Starkey

  Dream, Years, People

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• Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

  Deborah Smith

  Lying, Flattery, Covered

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• I fainted last night! Luckily I was going to bed at the time so I didn't get hurt.

  Arj Barker

  Hurt, Night, Lasts

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• Directing comes closer than anything I’ve found yet to providing me with a good reason to get up in the morning that goes beyond just getting some money. Because all the money does is buy the bed. Getting out of it is the problem.

  Shane Black

  Morning, Doe, Problem

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• Some days are good; some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Get Up, Exciting, Tedious

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• I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and Im strict about that.

  Steven Spielberg

  Morning, Home, School

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• If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

  Ani DiFranco

  Guitar, Challenges, Want

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• Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives.

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Needs, Want

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• But it was in this moment, lying in bed late at night, that I first realized that the voice in my head—the running commentary that had dominated my field of consciousness since I could remember—was kind of an asshole.

  Dan Harris

  Running, Lying, Night

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• We should look at the Twitter records of Andrew Fraser. Clearly, the ship was on remote control, because he spent all of his time on Twitter. He used to Twitter in the chamber. He used to Twitter at night. He used to Twitter probably in bed at home, but I am not going to go any further there.

  Campbell Newman

  Home, Night, Looks

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• The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.

  Paul Keating

  Morning, Party, People

  "Lateline" interview, June 7, 2007.

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• And in my flower-beds,
  I think,
  Smile the carnation
  and the pink.

  Rupert Brooke

  Flower, Thinking, Carnations

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.86, The Oleander Press

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• On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

  Andrew Young

  Luxury, Squash, Kingdoms

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• Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

  Bob Geldof

  Reading, Tired, The End Of The Day

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• You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow

  Kid Cudi

  Sorrow, Trials, Care

  Song: Pursuit Of Happiness, 2009

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• You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.

  Salman Rushdie

  Wall, House, Covering

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• We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Retirement, Adventure, Fire

  'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 1

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• You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

  W. H. Auden

  Relationship, Beauty, Differences

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• But no matter what was going on in our lives, I could imagine lying beside her in bed at the end of the day, holding her while we talked and laughed, lost in each other's arms

  Nicholas Sparks

  Lying, Happy Love, The End Of The Day

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• I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Night, Worried

  "Rose on gambling, baseball and the Hall". Interview with Graham Bensinger, www.espn.com. January 19, 2006.

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• Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Cadavers, Austen

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.

  Edward Abbey

  Gertrude, Done

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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