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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• 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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• Insomnia is only mind over mattress.

  Jane Ace

  Sleep, Insomnia, Mind

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

  Dalton Trumbo

  Travel, Interesting, Bedroom

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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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• 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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• 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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• Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

  Jim Backus

  Marriage, Men, Mistress

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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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• Thanks for the reminder that i have to hit the gym today. I have'nt worked out in days. Unless one counted mattress gymnastics!!!

  Sylvia Day

  Gymnastics, Today, Thanks

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• What do men want? Men want a mattress that cooks.

  Judy Tenuta

  Men, Want, Cooks

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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 don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.

  Ricky Martin

  Giving, Needs, Honest

  Details Interview, www.facebook.com. February 16, 2012.

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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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• 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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• Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside me. "Not true," I say. "Where were you born? What's your favourite season? Anything." "Here. Florida," he says. "I remember a woman in a red dress with curly brown hair. Maybe she was my mother, I'm not sure. And summer. What about you?" The last part is said with a smile. He smiles so infrequently that I consider each one a trophy.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Summer, Mother, Confused

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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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