Couches Quotes - Page 11

• I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars. And when I wouldn't give them my number, they'd say, "Who the hell do you think you are? You will never make it in this town. I'll make sure of it."

  Jenny McCarthy

  Stars, Thinking, Numbers

  "16 Things Jenny McCarthy Has Actually Said" by Aly Weisman, www.businessinsider.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Long, Needs, Sides

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• I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped - as it is when you've been shot across the chest.

  Anthony Head

  Shots, Brows, Bits

  Toronto Trek, July 12, 2003.

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• Let take a cat, and foster her with milk And tender flesh, and make her couch of silk, And let her see a mouse go by the wall, Anon she leaveth milk and flesh, and all, And every dainty that is in that house, Such appetite hath she to eat the mouse. Lo, here hath kind her domination, And appetite banishes discretion.

  Oswald Barron

  Wall, Cat, House

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• When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Looks, States

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• It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to seek it. Just like a surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down upon the couch. He can assume that the patient knows what it means to love, to envy, to trust, to think, to speak, to fear, to smile, to bargain, to covet, to dream, to remember, to sing, to quarrel, to lie. The 'smile' of a baboon is a threat; the smile of a man is a sign of pleasure: it is human nature, the world over.

  Matt Ridley

  Dream, Lying, Book

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• As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.

  Paul Wesley

  Simple, Good As It Gets, Sitting

  "Q & Andy: Paul Wesley". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2014.

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• My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

  Julie Delpy

  Paris, Creative, Sitting

  "Time Out with Before Midnight's Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy". Interview with David Fear, www.timeout.com. June 12, 2013.

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• It needs to be said that sometimes my mom forgets important details when she talks. Like the time she told us she was considering leather (couches, it turns out), or when I was little and she said, "Here's a napkin to put your balls in" (the Atomic Fireballs that I was eating, she meant).

  Bill Konigsberg

  Mom, Important, Details

  Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.93, Scholastic Inc.

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• Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.

  Lois Wyse

  Mother, Children, Sleep

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• You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

  Roseanne Barr

  Dream, Men, Years

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• ... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Availability, Style, Popcorn

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• Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes,
  Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose;
  Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance
  With timid eye, to read the distant glance;
  Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease,
  To name the nameless ever-new disease;
  Who with mock patience dire complaints endure,
  Which real pain and that alone can cure;
  How would ye bear in real pain to lie,
  Despised, neglected, left alone to die?
  How would ye bear to draw your latest breath,
  Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?

  George Crabbe

  Prayer, Pain, Real

  George Crabbe, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1857). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.15

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• monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

  Freya Stark

  Boredom, Bed, Coffins

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.111, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• [On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.

  Kate Clinton

  House, Drug, Cracks

  Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.65, Bywater Books

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• It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.

  Dane Cook

  Home, Night, Thinking

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2013

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• I don't do much. I'm too lazy. That's my problem. Hang around my couch, watching the TV. Just too lazy. I realized this the other day, I get hit my a truck tomorrow - a big truck could hit me - paralyze me from the neck down. Wouldn't effect my lifestyle a bit really.

  Norm MacDonald

  Lazy, Tvs, Necks

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• If and when I do get "down," the last thing on my mind is writing a song. Usually, being bummed just involves lying around on the couch and taking the bad weather personally. I only write songs when I feel good - or at least something approaching "good."

  Wooden Wand

  Song, Lying, Writing

  Interview With John Foster, brightestyoungthings.com. March 11, 2013.

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• I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.

  Scott Speedman

  Mom, Home, School

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• I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch."

  Phyllis Diller

  Mother, Husband, Son

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• You'd learn more about the world by lying on the couch and drinking gin out of a bottle than by watching the news.

  Garrison Keillor

  Lying, Drinking, News

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• I watch so much television. My DVR is full. I love putting my kids to bed, so I can sit on the couch with my wife and we can dissect The Affair, The Americans, House of Cards, or whatever it is. I'm so lucky.

  Scott Foley

  Kids, House Of Cards, Wife

  Source: collider.com

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• Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Best Love, People, Risk

  "Ruth Westheimer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2010.

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• I guess that's the oddest personality trait for me - I'm too dumb and naïve to ever really be nervous about anything. I just don't take it all that seriously. I'm much more happy to go home and lay on the couch and watch I Dream of Jeannie with my fiancée and our dog.

  Chris Zylka

  Dream, Dog, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Morning, Dad

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

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