Mattresses Quotes

• I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

  Kim Kardashian

  Clothes, House, Cases

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• Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

  Lawrence Tierney

  Birthday, Beautiful, Couple

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• America is the only country in the world where you can burn the flag but can't tear the tag off the mattress.

  Jackie Mason

  Country, America, Tears

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• Bless all useful objects,
  the spoons made of bone,
  the mattress I cook my dreams upon,
  the typewriter that is my church
  with an altar of keys always waiting.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Keys, Typewriters

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Gravitas, Significance, Exile

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• One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.

  Richard Marx

  Light, Cheesy, Rooms

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• Insomnia is only mind over mattress.

  Jane Ace

  Sleep, Insomnia, Mind

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• Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

  Noel Redding

  Song, Writing, Outlets

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• Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Self, Doe

  1974 Gather Together In My Name, ch.6.

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• The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Travel, Interesting, Bedroom

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• I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

  C. S. Forester

  Book, Princess, Seven

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• The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

  Arthur Miller

  Oysters, Cracks, World

  'Death of a Salesman' (1949) act 1

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• I miss my mattress when I am gone; It's one thing I've made an impression on.

  Richard Armour

  Missing, Gone, Made

  Richard Armour (1972). “Out of my mind”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.

  Duke Ellington

  New York, Dollars, Cadillacs

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Everybody knows how much time Fang spends in bed. A local store that gives a 30 days' trial on mattresses gives Fang only 15 days.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Giving, Sloth

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• AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.

  Emily Dickinson

  Yellow, Waiting, Sunrise

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.760, Harvard University Press

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• It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

  Craig Ferguson

  Veterans Day, Honor, Campaigns

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• You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.

  Warren Buffett

  Want, Millions

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.

  Joel Salatin

  Hate, Animal, Disrespect

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• Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

  Patricia Briggs

  White, House, President

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.13, Penguin

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• Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

  Jodi Picoult

  Betrayal, Forgiving, Stones

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• 2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream, Horse, Beer

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• How are you in the profession of protecting people without knowing who I am? I’ve been told I have one of the most recognizable faces in the world. (Aiden) Wow…just out of curiosity, when you go to bed at night, do you find yourself ousted off the mattress by that ego? (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Night, Who I Am, Knowing

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• Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Ties, People, Parent

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.26, Penguin

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• I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.

  Mary Hoffman

  Girl, Thinking, Promise

  Mary Hoffman (2010). “Stravaganza: City of Masks”, p.217, Bloomsbury Publishing

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