Pillow Quotes - Page 3

• What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.

  Brooke Shields

  Mean Girls, Mom, Home

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• I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked, "Would it be possible to incorporate visual art?" My sister stitches pillowcases, which led to Mary suggesting using cyanotype on them. I originally thought of the idea of pillowcases because when people get married, they have the bride and the groom lay their hands on each other's pillows while their relatives tie ribbons on their wrists. And then on the bed you usually have two pillows - one for yourself and one for your loved one - so when one is gone, one pillow remains.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, New York, Hands

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds.

  Kristin Cashore

  Clouds, Bedroom, Beats

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.144, Penguin

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• How do I ask my shrink to stop responding to everything I say with, Too much information! and then giggling behind a pillow?

  Dana Gould

  Too Much Information, Responding, Behinds

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• Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?

  James Patterson

  Beautiful, Feelings, Bed

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• You know, last night it was so cold that my pillow and my sheets fought to see who got under the blankets first.

  Red Skelton

  Night, Lasts, Firsts

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• How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.” He moved his head slightly to the side. It seemed to be a sickly interpretation of a shrug. “Of course you’re feeling terrible,” she clarified, “but is there any change? More terrible? Less terrible?” He made no response. “The same amount of terrible?

  Julia Quinn

  Mean, Feelings, Trying

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• British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of Assyria on the fall of Sumeria in 721 B.C. ... They further believe that the future can be foretold by the measurements of the Great Pyramid, which probably means it will be big and yellow and in the hand of the Arabs. They also believe that if you sleep with your head under the pillow a fairy will come and take all your teeth.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Believe, Fall

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• Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on.

  Kanye West

  Sleep, Fur, Hard

  "Barney Frank: The Comedian's Politician". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. May 10, 2013.

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• When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Trials, Sovereignty

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• A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses.

  Lucy Larcom

  Morning, Thinking, Poetry

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• I settled at Cold Mountain long ago Already it seems like ages Wandering free I roam the woods and streams Lingering to watch things be themselves Men don't come this far into the mountains Where white clouds gather and billow Dry grass makes a comfortable mattress The blue sky is a fine quilt Happy to pillow my head on the rock I leave heaven and earth to endless change

  Hanshan

  Quilts, Men, Rocks

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• deep in the meadow , under the willow , a bed of grass , a soft green pillow

  Suzanne Collins

  Bed, Green, Grass

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

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• I hate them," Enna said. "Whoever is responsible for making me sleep outside without pillows, I hate them." Mmm-hmmm...," Dasha said. Rin had noticed that the Tiran girl often had trouble remembering how to speak in the morning. If Finn were here," Enna continued to mumble as she rewrapped her head cloth, "he'd let me rest my head on his chest at night. Or leg. Or arm. And then he'd find whoever was responsible for the whole sleeping outside with no pillows situation and hold him while I kicked him in the shins.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Morning, Hate

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• For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's pillow — we have our smiles, as it were, painted on. Those small, cool, quite Mona Lisa smiles that smile we must, no matter whether it's been fun or it's been not. So all cats have a politician's air; we smile and smile and so they think we're villains

  Angela Carter

  Fun, Cat, Thinking

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• Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

  William Shakespeare

  Sloth, Laziness, Hard

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• Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Believe, Learning, Trying

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• I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Beautiful, Stones, Saws

  "Grasmere Journal," 15 Apr. 1802 SeeWilliamWordsworth 25

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• He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Reading, Made

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.

  Emile Hirsch

  Girl, Lap, Massive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.

  Lee Trevino

  Morning, Orthopedics, Necks

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• I'm a complete worrier. As soon as my head hits the pillow I'm thinking.

  Gethin Jones

  Thinking

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.

  Ann Beattie

  People, Trying, Dinner

  Ann Beattie (2010). “Walks With Men: Fiction”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you.

  Franny Billingsley

  Memories, Knowing, People

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.164, A&C Black

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• Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow, Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea, What matters beating wind and tossing billow If only we are in the boat with Thee? Hold us quiet through the age-long minute While Thou art silent and the wind is shrill : Can the boat sink while Thou, dear Lord, are in it; Can the heart faint that waiteth on Thy will?

  Amy Carmichael

  Art, What Matters, Wind

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