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Quotes About Bed

At home in bed, in my private abyss of longing, the scenes I dreamed of always began like this.
~ Donna Tartt
Now I know why they say Lincoln's ghost walks around up here at night," President Truman chuckled. "He's just looking for his bed.
~ Unknown
To enjoy your holiday in bed to the full, you should let it be vaguely understood that there is something amiss with you. Don't go into details, for they are not necessary; and, besides, you want to be dreamy more or less, and the dreamy state is not consistent with a definite ailment.
~ J.M. Barrie
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
~ Unknown
A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl--the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.
~ Unknown
A Brazilian film? Naturally, if there's a bed, a woman with a raffish expression, and a man in only his underwear, it could only be Brazilian cinema.
~ Unknown
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.
~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz
To add even more drama to my announcement, I concluded by saying that after they got ready for bed they should go sit on their beds and moan… for the Bible says that the Holy Spirit will lift up prayers on our behalf if all we can do is moan. "So the Holy Spirit will be tucking you into bed tonight. I am
~ Lysa TerKeurst
When we were eating dinner, sitting on her bed side by side, she said to me, "This is fun." "It weirdly is," I said. "Maybe these are our salad days." "Huh?" "You know. Happy." "What's happy about a salad?" She shrugged. "Ranch," she said.
~ Unknown
He didn't think it sanitary to shake hands, didn't smoke, and had no taste for liquor, not even Italy's fine wine. He was a poor listener who disliked hearing other people talk. He was loath to spend nights away from his own bed, and the time he allotted for meals—either alone or with his family—averaged about three minutes.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
They did not see me as their dinner. They were pious men, honestly lost, and I would feed them, and if there was a handsome one amongst them, I might take him to my bed. It was not desire, not even its barest scrapings. It was a sort of rage, a knife I used upon myself. I did it to prove my skin was still my own.
~ Madeline Miller
In a little while she got up and went over and closed the door and came back, dropped her halter top and her sun shorts to the floor beside the bed, stood there for not more than two seconds and then stretched out beside me. She bent over the side of the bed and got her cigarettes out of the pocket of the sun shorts, lit two and gave me one and lay back in the circle of my arm, huffed out a big cloud of smoke
~ John D. MacDonald
Bed is the simplest thing two people can do. If it goes with a lot of other things, it can be important, and if it goes with nothing else, it isn't worth the time it takes.
~ John D. MacDonald
Lacy said, "So, your story involves organized criminals, Indians who own casinos, and a crooked judge, all in bed together?" "That's a fair summary.
~ John Grisham
Three baggage mules were needed to carry Mary's bed alone
~ John Guy
You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who's leaping up and down on a bed.
~ John Irving
TAKE ALMOST ANYTHING FROM JUDE THE OBSCURE. HOW ABOUT THAT TERRIBLE LITTLE PRAYER THAT JUDE REMEMBERS FALLING ASLEEP TO, WHEN HE WAS A CHILD? "TEACH ME TO LIVE, THAT I MAY DREAD "THE GRAVE AS LITTLE AS MY BED. "TEACH ME TO DIE
~ John Irving
And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
~ John Keats
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
~ Felix Frankfurter
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
~ Allen Ginsberg
I love you because you're what inspires the sun to rise each morning. It's the thought of you that encourages me to crawl out of bed with a smile on my face each day.
~ Unknown
To make life vibrant and meaningful rise in morning with determination, go to bed with satisfaction in between strive for perfection.
~ Unknown
liniment, Chelsea ached more in the morning than she had the night before. She rolled carefully out of bed, sending a jealous glance toward Ethan. He'd slept the night through in
~ Maggie Shayne
Sometimes, on days when the weather was beyond redemption, mere residence in the house, situated in the midst of a steady and continuous rain, had all the gliding ease, the soothing silence, the interest of a sea voyage; another time, on a bright day, to lie still in bed was to let the lights and shadows play around me as round a tree trunk.
~ Marcel Proust