Couches Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs, never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs. She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch, while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out.

  John Michael Montgomery

  Family, Mom, Kissing

  Song: The Little Girl, Album: Brand New Me, 2000

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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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• Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

  John Milton

  Twilight, Bird, Silence

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

  Andrew Sarris

  Would Be, Way, Your Favorite

  "Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris" by Kent Jones, www.filmcomment.com. May/June 2005.

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• My hope is to see Tom Cruise jumping on my couch.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Jumping, Cruise, Toms

  "Telemundo's Cristina: 'My Hope Is to See Tom Cruise Jumping on My Couch'" by Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 2, 2011.

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