Cushions Quotes

• One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.

  Lillian Hellman

  Comfort, Comfortable

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• Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

  Mason Cooley

  Fall, May

  "City Aphorisms: Twelfth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1993.

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• Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.

  Wally Lamb

  Life Is, Chairs, Seats

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• Small change can often be found under seat cushions.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Small Changes, Often Is, Found

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin

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• The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

  Jodi Picoult

  Blow, Heartache, Way

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.1180, Simon and Schuster

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• Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Strong, Pain

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

  Holland Cotter

  Beautiful, Past, Promise

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• Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

  George Eliot

  Missing, Comfort

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.429, Wordsworth Editions

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• A teenage girl lay asleep on the sofa, curled up under a red-and-black knitted afghan. She was on her side, with one slender arm cradling a throw cushion nestled under her head. Long wavy blond hair spread across her back and her shoulders like a cape. Even though she was sleeping, Alex could see how pretty she was, with her delicate, almost elfin features. He stood in the doorway, watching the soft rise and fall of her chest.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Girl, Teenage, Fall

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• Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.

  William P. Driscoll

  Sloppiness, Aviation, Speed

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• I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

  Joan Collins

  Mean, Rooms, Cashmere

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• Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

  Robert A. Burton

  Adversity, Two, Hopeful

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• When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

  Jack Kornfield

  Regret, Loneliness, Frustration

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• Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

  Erma Bombeck

  Car, Onions, Onion Rings

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• How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia.

  Katherine Dunn

  Evil, Childhood, Darkness

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.150, Vintage

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• A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Morning, Fall, Rain

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. 1967.

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• Indolence is the devil's cushion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Devil, Indolence

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• The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Journalism, Chairs, Editorials

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Roundabout Papers”, p.76

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• Music is the softest cushion in the world.

  Niki de Saint Phalle

  Music, World, Music Is

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• People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.

  Diane Ackerman

  Law, Cities, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.21, Vintage

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• To ensure a successful mix, I treat cushions, trimming, lampshades and other accessories as the shoes and handbags of the home. The right shoes can really make an outfit ~ and equally, if you have the wrong shoes you can feel old fashioned in the smartest of suits.

  Nina Campbell

  Home, Successful, Shoes

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• When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

  Tom Hanks

  Jobs, Years, Shopping

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• Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.

  Gerald Durrell

  Cake, Tea, Rising

  Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell (1996). “The best of Gerald Durrell”, Harpercollins

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• The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin'.

  Frank Zappa

  Bigger

  Song: SEX, Album: The Man from Utopia

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• If airline seat cushions are such great flotation devices, why don't you ever see anyone take one to the beach?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Beach, Airline, Devices

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