Couches Quotes - Page 4

• Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds.

  Phil Robertson

  Sports, Children, Growing Up

  Phil Robertson (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• We as parents are our children's first and best role models, and this is particularly true when it comes to their health. ...We can't lie around on the couch eating French fries and candy bars and expect our kids to eat carrots and run around the block.

  Michelle Obama

  Running, Children, Block

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• The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

  June Jordan

  Children, Father, Kids

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.159, Basic Books

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• Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to be so overwhelmed with your skills they can't resist hauling your art home. These three factors are what dictate most art sales.

  Jack White

  Art, Home, Skills

  Jack White (2014). “Artist Confidential: Secret Guidelines of Professionals”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I don't like going out that much. I'm kind of an old lady. After it's 11, I'm like, 'Don't these kids ever get tired?' When I'm out, I think about my couch. Like, 'It would be awesome to be on it right now. I bet there's an episode of Dance Moms on."

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Mom, Kids

  “Jennifer Lawrence: ‘Nothing Makes Me Feel Better Than Junk Food and Reality TV‘“ by Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. December 29, 2012.

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• Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, Why are they doing that for free? We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it.

  Arianna Huffington

  Self, Expression, People

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• Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.

  Sam Altman

  Sound, Way, Stranger

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• t's much less daunting once you've put your foot on the road to it. I'm a notorious couch potato and I don't like exercise. Half an hour of physical exercise, like jogging or fast walking a day is a start.

  Tom Hardy

  Exercise, Feet, Jogging

  "Bronson - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I was a young man, and this is the kind of London it was, but so many people are just not here anymore. Not even Tina [Chow], who was to me absolutely the most important girl of the time. Tina was absolutely the chicest thing, the way she kept herself, the way she moved. You're born like that - you cannot acquire it. All those upper-class girls, people like Catherine Tennant, they used to be there in Chelsea, sitting on the couch. Now Chelsea is full of Russians.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Men, Class

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries.

  Demetri Martin

  Potatoes, Fries, French Fries

  Twitter post from Mar 08, 2011

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• My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.

  Nelly

  Art, Media, Hands

  Song: Okay

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• I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

  Creed Bratton

  Mom, Fall, Kids

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• I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.

  Adam Garcia

  Sunday, Trying, Watches

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• In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.

  Casey Abrams

  Watching Tv, Tvs, Spare Time

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• Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

  Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne

  Virtue, Pleasure, Graves

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• O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

  William Congreve

  Confusion, Levees, Alluring

  'The Way of the World' (1700) act 4, sc. 1

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• I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.

  Michelle Williams

  Wall, Home, Drawing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Me and my friends get together all the time for girls night, or watch rock of love on the couch. I end up going out to a lot of shows, and surfing with my folks is always high on the priority list.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Girl, Night, Rocks

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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• I have to stop crying when I watch "The View". It's not because of the topics at hand, I just feel sorry for that couch.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Sorry, Humor

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• I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

  Iron & Wine

  Song, People, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Personally, I think SmackDown! has to be a little spicier than it is, a little more electrifying than it is. It's got great athletes and they've got great action, they've done some tremendous stuff, but I want it to knock you off the couch when it opens up. And I think we as a group have the ability to do that.

  Dusty Rhodes

  Athlete, Thinking, Groups

  "Dusty Rhodes back in the fold". Interview with Evan Denbaum, www.wwe.com. September 1, 2005.

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• Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.

  Samuel Fuller

  People, Twists, Medical

  "Fictional character: Cathy". "Shock Corridor", www.imdb.com. 1963.

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• I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.

  Henry Rollins

  Kids, Wife, Addiction

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• I couch-surfed for years. But I always wanted to live in Baltimore; I still do. If I had to choose, it would always be Baltimore.

  John Waters

  Years, Baltimore, Wanted

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Blessing, Night

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