Couches Quotes - Page 7

• This is a woman you've known less than twelve hours. It took you a year to pick out a couch, but you're seriously—" “Yes,” Roger said. “She's the one.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Years, Roger, Twelve

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.359, Macmillan

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• I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Book, Four, Armchairs

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.

  Steve Jobs

  Drinking, Beer, Technology

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to lie on the couch with the Times over his face, so that death, when it came, wouldn't seem a significant change.

  Louise Glück

  Mother, Lying, Father

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• The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Lying, Book, Reading

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• She looks up at me with those vulnerable eyes. “What if it means something?” She asks. “What if it does?” “Promise me it won’t mean anything.” I lean my head back on the couch. “It won’t mean anythin’.” Aren’t I supposed to be the guy in this scenario, laying down the no-commitment rules? “And no tongue,” she adds. “Mi vida, if I kiss you, I guarantee there’s gonna be tongue.

  Simone Elkeles

  Mean, Commitment, Eye

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• Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his spine. "Tory!" Whitney squealed. "He's going to attack!" "Maybe." I walked into the kitchen and snagged a Diet Coke from the fridge. "Try to protect your throat.

  Kathy Reichs

  Ice, Blue, Kitchen

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• Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Reading, Grandmother

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• I don't blame you. But if there's anything else you have to tell me, now would be the time." He pressed forward, urging me to stretch on the couch. Coming over me, he whispered, "I'm in love with you." With everything going wrong, that was the one thing that was totally right. It was enough.

  Sylvia Day

  Love You, Would Be, Blame

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• We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

  Dick Black

  Nature, Risk, Losing

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• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

  John Milton

  Life, Queens, Twilight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

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• Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.

  Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne

  Pain, Alcohol, Mind

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• I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch, and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself.

  Brad Pitt

  Marijuana, Dope, Smoking

  "Brad Pitt spent decade smoking marijuana: Which '90s star came out on top?", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1019, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Cat, Meat, Milk

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• By the way, food and rent aren't the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Money, Sleep, Way

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• Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

  George Henry Lewes

  Eye, Love Is, Blind

  George Henry Lewes (1847). “Ranthorpe by George Henry Lewes, the Author of Physiology of Common Life”, p.273

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• A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.

  Richard Helms

  Witty, Reality, Potatoes

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• That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

  John Milton

  Revenge, Malice, Falsehood

  John Milton (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.116

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• I don't like going out that much. When I'm out, I think about my couch.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, Going Out

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• They say that dog is man's best friend, and I think it's true. My dog does a lot of the same stuff my best friend does, like drool on my couch, mooch my food and hump my wife.

  Brad Wilkerson

  Dog, Sex, Men

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• In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

  Robert Burns

  Sorrow, Prison, Steep

  Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.88

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• I want to sit on my couch and drink and not change my pants for days at a time.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Want, Pants, Drink

  "Jennifer Lawrence: 'I'm Sinking Into a Bit of Depression'" by Marc Malkin, www.eonline.com. February 26, 2013.

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• The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

  Joanna Baillie

  Dog, Men, Tyrants

  Joanna Baillie (1832). “The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie”, p.203

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