Quotessence
Home / Topics / Couches Quotes

Couches Quotes

Browse 381 quotes about Couches.

Related topics

IfsPeopleThinkingWantKnowsLyingSittingTvsSaidSleepI CanHomeWatchesLittlesPotatoesRoomsTryingWayFirstsFeelsHoursKindMovingBedDogEatingLooksMomNightShowsGivingHandsHouseKidsMenMindNeedsSatTelevisionWorldWritingBigsChildrenGet UpLongSometimesUsedYearsEyeMayRunningShouldTwoBookGuyMy MomPsychiatristTablesWould BeBitsDreamEnoughLaysMorningNew YorkNicePersonsPleasureRememberStillsUseWholeAgeBelieveCarCastingChairsComfortableCoursesFrontsGirlGrowing UpLazyMeanMotherSongStuffTherapistsThreeWaitingWantedWatching TvWellsYoung

Couches Quotes

“Tracey hurriedly shut the door behind her to prevent the flames that had been licking hungrily at her caboose all the way down the corridor, from following her inside. Then, almost falling into one of the gravity couches, she hurriedly strapped herself into it before punching the emergency release. She hoped the escape system still worked. It did. The explosive dead-bolts fired, shaking the pod loose, dislodging it from the rapidly disintegrating wreck, just about shaking the crap out of her on its bone-jarring way into the great wide open.”

WayReleaseGravityEscapeShakingCouchesSystemTheToHerInsideOpenDownLickingWorkedEmergencyBeenThenDidIntoLooseFiredWreckExplosiveHerselfRapidlyCorridorStrappedDead BoltsDisintegratingDislidgingTracey
Book:Prodigal Sun
Create image

“Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.”

MayBookUsePleasureKnowledgeStudyConversationDrawsMethodNotionEngagedCharmMultitudesInvitationsCouchesComprehensionSlothRectify
Book:A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians
Create image

“When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long.”

PeopleIfsNeedsLooksLittlesLongBookKidsJobsLastsHouseFeltDoorsSellsFolksSellingSwingsFurnitureCouchesDown The RoadEncyclopediaSwing Sets
Author:Willie Nelson
Create image

“I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?" And I was like, "Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I'll fill 120 hours of my life with something." So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.”

IfsSaidActorsFunHoursFiveFourNew YorkDirectorsTwentiesYeahDisasterStayingFlirtingCouchesEricLucy
Author:Ben Stiller
Create image

“Just work. Don't wait. Everybody's waiting until they have the perfect idea to start working. Even if you have an inkling of what you want to do, start moving towards it. And it's going to flesh itself out through the process of moving towards the goal. And by the time you get to where you're going to be, it's not going to look anything like it did when you sat on the couch thinking about it. And if you wait until it's perfect in your head before you get of the couch and start working on it, that's never going to happen.”

IfsThinkingWantLooksIdeasHappensMovingWaitingProcessGoalPerfectWhat You WantFleshSatCouches
Author:Brandon Stanton
Create image

“It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to seek it. Just like a surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down upon the couch. He can assume that the patient knows what it means to love, to envy, to trust, to think, to speak, to fear, to smile, to bargain, to covet, to dream, to remember, to sing, to quarrel, to lie. The 'smile' of a baboon is a threat; the smile of a man is a sign of pleasure: it is human nature, the world over.”

ThinkingKnowsMenWorldHumansMeanBookDreamRememberLyingSpeakPleasureHuman NatureEvolutionAimAssumingThreatPatientEnvyAssumptionTypicalQuarrelsCouchesPsychiatristBargainsSurgeonsBaboons
Author:Matt Ridley
Create image

“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?”

WayRealEyePainLyingDiesNamesLeftPrayerBearsDiseaseDrawsDoctorsBreathsPressesSlaveEndureCuresFantasticNervesWearyComplaintsGlancesWoeWretchedNeglectedCouchesReposeDespisedMockTeaseLeft AloneNamelessReal Pain
Book:The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume
Create image