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• It needs to be said that sometimes my mom forgets important details when she talks. Like the time she told us she was considering leather (couches, it turns out), or when I was little and she said, "Here's a napkin to put your balls in" (the Atomic Fireballs that I was eating, she meant).

  Bill Konigsberg

  Mom, Important, Details

  Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.93, Scholastic Inc.

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• Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Hands, Soul

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 12, l. 47

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• My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

  Julie Delpy

  Paris, Creative, Sitting

  "Time Out with Before Midnight's Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy". Interview with David Fear, www.timeout.com. June 12, 2013.

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• The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.

  Steve Jobs

  Drinking, Beer, Technology

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

  George Henry Lewes

  Eye, Love Is, Blind

  George Henry Lewes (1847). “Ranthorpe by George Henry Lewes, the Author of Physiology of Common Life”, p.273

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• If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Lying, Mind, Vacancy

  "Proverbial Philosophy (Of Recreation)". Book by Martin Farquhar Tupper, 1839.

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• We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.

  Criss Jami

  Moving, Trying, Mountain

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.60, Criss Jami

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• 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.

  Brandon Stanton

  Moving, Thinking, Ideas

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• I wouldn't want to be someone's roommate, that's for sure. You can't do certain things, you can't leave the bathroom door open...you can't put your feet on the couch, you can't hide stuff in the couch.

  J. B. Smoove

  Doors, Feet, Want

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch.

  David Letterman

  Running, New York, Cities

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• I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Morning, Leaving, Bed

  Edgar Wilson Nye, Frank Wilson Nye (1971). “Bill Nye, his own life story”, Scholarly Pr

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• The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

  Joanna Baillie

  Dog, Men, Tyrants

  Joanna Baillie (1832). “The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie”, p.203

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• It's nice to get off the couch, throw the clothes on, add a little make-up and go back to work, every once in a while.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Nice, Clothes, Add

  Source: collider.com

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• Women want to know what's going on, whether it's the guys in the huddle the guys on the couch. One thing that's cool that I've seen as I've grown older is that women now think it is cool to enjoy sports and to sit there and talk the talk and know what's going on.

  Erin Andrews

  Sports, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.

  Lydia M. Child

  Freedom, Land, Water

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.

  Paul Wesley

  Simple, Good As It Gets, Sitting

  "Q & Andy: Paul Wesley". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2014.

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• 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.

  Matt Ridley

  Dream, Lying, Book

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• When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Looks, States

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• Let take a cat, and foster her with milk And tender flesh, and make her couch of silk, And let her see a mouse go by the wall, Anon she leaveth milk and flesh, and all, And every dainty that is in that house, Such appetite hath she to eat the mouse. Lo, here hath kind her domination, And appetite banishes discretion.

  Oswald Barron

  Wall, Cat, House

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• I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped - as it is when you've been shot across the chest.

  Anthony Head

  Shots, Brows, Bits

  Toronto Trek, July 12, 2003.

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• Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Long, Needs, Sides

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• I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars. And when I wouldn't give them my number, they'd say, "Who the hell do you think you are? You will never make it in this town. I'll make sure of it."

  Jenny McCarthy

  Stars, Thinking, Numbers

  "16 Things Jenny McCarthy Has Actually Said" by Aly Weisman, www.businessinsider.com. July 15, 2013.

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• As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, People, Half

  Source: collider.com

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• My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

  Michael Caine

  Views, Actors, Psychiatrist

  Interview with Barry Norman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 1998.

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• Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

  John Milton

  Twilight, Bird, Silence

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

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