Couches Quotes - Page 4

• Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Moving, Mind, Get Up

  “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations - ‘Brooklyn’” by Caroline Framke, www.avclub.com. November 6, 2012.

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• Personally, I think SmackDown! has to be a little spicier than it is, a little more electrifying than it is. It's got great athletes and they've got great action, they've done some tremendous stuff, but I want it to knock you off the couch when it opens up. And I think we as a group have the ability to do that.

  Dusty Rhodes

  Athlete, Thinking, Groups

  "Dusty Rhodes back in the fold". Interview with Evan Denbaum, www.wwe.com. September 1, 2005.

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• Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Ceilings, Tables, Chips

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• The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

  Claudette Colbert

  Casting, Made, Stardom

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• Make Earth Day Every Day.”  While we might not always live up to this ideal, I try to keep this quote from Denis Hayes, founder of the Earth Day Network and president of Seattle’s Bullitt Foundation, in mind when I need a little extra motivation to be a better environmentalist: “Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Motivation, Beer

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• I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

  Rosie Perez

  Careers, Matter, Documentaries

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• Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on.

  Cyrus the Great

  Moving, Talking, Leader

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• Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

  damali ayo

  Art, Thinking, Make You Think

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

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• Low on his funeral couch he lies!

  Thomas Gray

  Lying, Funeral, Deceit

  1757 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode, l.63-6.

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• I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

  Ana Beatriz Barros

  Kids, Tomatoes, Engagement

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

  Beck

  Song, Work, Thinking

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• I remember how beautiful it was to fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for the first time.
  You were the best platform from which to jump beyond myself.
  What was wrong with me?

  Alanis Morissette

  Beautiful, Song, Fall

  Song: Unsent, Album: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998

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• I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.

  Joyce Maynard

  Mother, Children, Years

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• I'm feeling very angry right now, because I have only one bed and no couch.

  Luis Guzman

  Feelings, Bed, Management

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• [T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  History, Humanity, Historian

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• He has an armload of irises and daisies and tulips and he presents them to me. I didn't know what kind of flowers you like.I like them all.Yeah?Yeah.He tries to hand them to me, but then remembers the cast. I'll put them in water.Betty swoops in the room ridiculously fast and she grabs the flowers out of Nick's hands. I'll take care of them. You lovebirds just sit on the couch and think swooning things at each other.

  Carrie Jones

  Flower, Thinking, Hands

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• I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day, I'd take an interest.

  Colson Whitehead

  Sports, Lying, Athlete

  Colson Whitehead (2014). “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death”, p.41, Anchor

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• Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Fall, Getting Back Up

  "All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir". Book by Brennan Manning and John Blase, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2011.

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• If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long.

  Ricky Van Veen

  Long, Watches, Want

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• I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Grief, Thinking, Ugly

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel”, p.182, Ballantine Books

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• You're not going to get off the couch and be at some amazing fast pace or burn crazy amounts of calories, but you have to start somewhere Eventually, you'll get there.

  Jennie Finch

  Crazy, Pace, Calories

  "Jennie Finch on motherhood, marathons and being 'a machine'". Interview With Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2012.

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• I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Notebook, Thinking, Two

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• But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

  Lillian Hellman

  Success, Class, Chairs

  "Conversations with Lillian Hellman".

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• Sitting around on the couch eating Pringles all day is not going to help anyone.

  Jennie Garth

  Sitting, Helping, Eating

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• I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in the bathroom, studying the woods, kidding around with a girl, playing cards lazily - all kinds of stuff that American brands 'shiftless.'

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Sleep, Ice Cream

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.136, Penguin

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