Sofas Quotes - Page 3

• Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

  Marty Nemko

  Kids, Parent, Skins

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in

  William Cowper

  Cheer, Fall, Fire

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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• Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

  Melina Marchetta

  Meaning Of Life, Red, Hills

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• What would he imagine next? Little hairy beasties tap-dancing on his sofa, or other fey creatures sneaking up on him in the shower?’ (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dancing, Littles, Next

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Fire”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

  Ken Venturi

  Retirement, Hero, Giving

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• When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa.

  Nick Hancock

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

  Phillip Lim

  Dog, Tvs, Affair

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• The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Naked, Red, Middle

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• There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

  Agatha Christie

  Typewriters, Agony, Feelings

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Landon Loucas Maxfield was asleep on his sofa. With me.

  Tammara Webber

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• Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself

  Edith Södergran

  Cat, Garden, Wish

  Edith Södergran (1984). “Complete Poems”, Dufour Editions

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• Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Hope, Doors, Feelings

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

  Herman Melville

  Sad, Lasts, Firsts

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.352

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• Ready?" Jaime echoed. "Yes, yes, I am ready. I am ready to drink a lot of liquids and lie on the sofa moaning faintly all day long. That is what I am ready for. I cannot engage in physical activity of any sort or my head will fall right off. Is that what you want Nick? Because if so, I find that hurtful.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Lying, Fall, Long

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• Indolence of course is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Nursing, Creative, Sitting

  "A lack of elegy" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2006.

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• The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

  Alan Moore

  Reality, Ideas, Mind

  "What Is Reality?". Proposed text for "Holy Smoke" by Alan Moore, 1999.

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• I live in a flat with 3 women, I call it surround sound. I keep the ugly one behind the sofa as a woofer.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Surround Sound

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• The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.

  Pam Brown

  Encouraging, Baby, Fall

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• I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.

  Susan Orlean

  Ambition, Breathing, Games

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• When I first met Lars [Von Trier] he was sat on the sofa wearing socks and sandals. He wanted me to imagine my cat had died. It took me a while to think about it, but then I felt myself physically crumble. I got myself into a state that was actually pretty hard to get out of.

  Mia Goth

  Cat, Thinking, Firsts

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• I don't know about you, but I have to sleep. I had a long night and I'm exhausted." She was rather tired, too. But as she slid her gaze to the fake leather sofa, she realized it would never fit both of them. Hunter grinned at her. "You take the couch, I'll sleep on the floor." "Can you do that?" "I've slept in worse places." "Yeah, but don't you need a coffin?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tired, Sleep, Night

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Night Pleasures”, p.52, Macmillan

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• Consumers fall in love with a brand and it's important for a brand to develop and stretch itself to provide for their consumers. I don't suspect that a customer will walk into a store to buy a pair of jeans and end up buying a sofa, but it's about providing loyal consumers with a choice to create a lifestyle.

  Renzo Rosso

  Falling In Love, Jeans, Choices

  Source: www.wallpaper.com

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• A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.

  Ted Allen

  New York, Eye, Winning

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

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• The first time The Runaways played in Britain, Joan Jett wore my bullet belt onstage. The Runaways were really the first all-girl band to really strut their stuff and say, "F**k you." "Cherry Bomb" was the best song for a girl band to sing. It was just outrageous at the time. There were American families sitting on the sofa watching television going, "F**k me." It was great fun.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Girl, Song, Fun

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• Former president Bill Clinton was elected on this very day in 1992. Clinton went on to leave quite a mark in the oval office... You mean the one on the sofa?

  Craig Ferguson

  Mean, Office, President

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