Best lying & bed Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings-- This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.”

Earth Lying Mother Born White Lord Air Cry Kings Bed Wings Christmas Heavenly Babe

Book:The Celestial Passion

Source: The Celestial Passion

“Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.”

Earth Lying Laughing Sun Bed Mouths Rose Bleeding Pleading Love Lies

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.”

“I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going.”

Way Should Lying Left Millions Fire Position Building Bed Should Have Perseverance Disaster Burning Keep Going Setback Second Thoughts Shipping Fire Burning Burning Down

Author:Jonathan Adler

“A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're lying in that bed at night being totally ignored”

People World Helping Lying Night Walks Hell Stage Bed Ignored Applause

Author:Patsy Cline

“Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.”

Soul Lying Sides Loses Bed Errors Despised Truth And Lies Dormitory

Book:Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections

Source: Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections

“I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.”

Way States Feelings Lying Bed Quiet Melody Formal

Author:Julian Lennon

“I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.”

Should Writing Mind Firsts Made Ideas Sometimes Dream Light Lying Night Sleep Habit Bed Quiet Wake Up Disappear Made It Racing

Book:Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

Source: Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

“If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.”

Ifs Men May Made Lying Desire Bed Comfortable Prison Excellence Bars Iron Feathers Fetters Prowess

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.”

Lying Turns Wish Bed Six News Labor Luck Foundation Lays Busy Legacy Pens Hammers Competence Postman

Book:Thrift

Source: Thrift

“What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed.”

Lying Boys Bed Mouths South Golden Generous Troops Bloody Midway

Book:The Poems of Herman Melville

Source: The Poems of Herman Melville

“Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down.”

Made Might Lying Courses Accepting Fields Bed Prepared Weekend Here I Am

Author:Brian Aldiss

“Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.”

Thinking Made Stills Sometimes Lying Night College Bed Warm Best Ever

Author:David Duchovny

“One night, I was lying in bed, and I was channel surfing between reality TV programs and actual war coverage. On one channel, there's a group of young people competing for I don't even know; and on the next, there's a group of young people fighting in an actual war. I was really tired, and the lines between these stories started to blur in a very unsettling way. That's the moment when Katniss's story came to me.”

People Knows Way War Moments Stories Reality Young Lying Night Fighting Next Lines Groups Tvs Bed Program Tired Competing Surfing One Night Coverage Blur Reality Tv Katniss

Author:Suzanne Collins

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”

Thinking World Doe Lying Poetry Night Time Literature Lines Party Poet Expression Bed Poetry Is Poetry By Famous Poets Poetry By Poets What Is Poetry

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.”

Facts Lying Bed Abandoned Ambrosia

Author:Keith Waterhouse

“Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and I be lying Each within our narrow bed.”

Moments Lying Bed Flying

Book:The Masque of Mary and Other Poems

Source: The Masque of Mary and Other Poems

“When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.”

Enough Lying Praying Bed Resorts

Author:Lana Del Rey

“There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.”

People Want Lying Sports Watches Sun Bed Relax Weekend

Author:Juan Pablo Galavis

“The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.”

Lying Race Flower Bed Gentle

Author:William C. Bryant

“I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!”

Self Lying Morning Bed Letters Profound Satisfaction Psychological Observation Remarkable Delighted Self-satisfaction

Book:The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935

Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935

“Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.”

Lying Night Dark Rooms Months Bed Terror Emptiness Corpses Slippery

Book:Wilderness Tips

Source: Wilderness Tips

“I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.”

Ifs Trying God Lying Dog Figures Bed Jokes Agnostic Dyslexic Old Jokes

Book:Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

“Laugh out, O stream, from your bed of green, / Where you lie in the sun's embrace; / And talk to the reeds that o'er you lean / To touch your dimpled face.”

Faces Lying Laughing Sun Bed Rivers Green Embrace Streams Reeds

Book:The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

“Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do people who like to work feel superior to those who prefer to dream?”

People Feels Looks Dream Lying Bed Late Superiors Get Up Disdain Up Early

Book:How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

Source: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

“Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.”

Thinking Mind Book Stories Lying Enjoy Sound Sides Sleep Wife Bed Conscious Breathing Sensitive Luther Heartbeat

Book:Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.”

Thinking Knows Writing Seems Lying Bed Essentials Sitting Chairs Hanging Out Daydreaming Dope Indolence Bed Time

Book:Conversations with Grace Paley

Source: Conversations with Grace Paley

“Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.”

Mind Firsts Eye Lying Sleep Bed Ill Laziness Idle Cages Desertion

Author:Frances Osborne

“He that makes his bed ill, lies there.”

Lying Bed Ill

Book:The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse

Source: The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse

“Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.”

Long Lying Bed Estates

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my clothes are all rumpled - and all because the airline, which claimed to have a bed, actually offered up a torture machine which I prefer to call a slide.”

Lying Hurt Bed Clothes Machines Legs Torture Flats Ache Slides Airline Back Hurts

Author:Richard Quest

“The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil.”

Thinking Men Want Humans Wells May Real Humor Seems Form Lying Religious Results Half Darkness Blood Shapes Bed Devil Connections Assuming Flesh Mortals Deceiving Flesh And Blood Human Form

Author:Martin Luther

“I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.”

Thinking Ideas Sometimes Stories Lying Night Fall Reading My Own Trouble Bed Falling Asleep

Author:Linda Sue Park

“Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.”

“I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep; And the young lie long and dream in their bed.”

Long Dream Young Lying Stars Work Fire Bed Aging Blow Motherhood Seeds Dawn Blink Flicker

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

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