Couches Quotes - Page 16

• Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Fun, Beer

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• Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

  Aaron Copland

  Music, Wisdom, Stress

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• You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.

  Gene Kelly

  Dream, Running, Song

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• I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Journey, People, Laughing

  "Sherri Shepherd: 'I Was Homeless For A Little Bit' (VIDEO)", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  O. Henry

  Life, Reflection, Littles

  Four Million (1906) "Gift of the Magi"

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• I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

  John Green

  Love, Dream, Lying

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

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• Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

  Clay Shirky

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Ocean, Moving

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