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Quotes About Sheets

the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own
~ Mary Oliver
If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
~ Barry Ritholtz
Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.
~ Nate Berkus
I remember the bed and the crisp, yellowing sheets. I wondered how many people had slept in it. I marveled at how the pillow, like a small theater, had staged countless dreams.
~ Simon Van Booy
I love doing laundry! It's so satisfying. I love the way it smells. I love doing the sheets.
~ Keri Russell
Since love came over and knocked me down, Then kicked me in the side and fled, I have suffered from a prolonged perplexity. God is the object of my wonder and the closest to me. Especially near sleep. My sheets are like the wings of a guardian angel. There is no other fabric so near to my feelings.
~ Fanny Howe
Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan, but it was a political organization more than anything. Besides, they couldn't find anybody to scare. They paraded by Mr. Sam Levy's house one night, but Sam just stood on his porch and told 'em things had come to a pretty pass, he'd sold 'em the very sheets on their backs. Sam made 'em so ashamed of themselves they went away.
~ Harper Lee
What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.
~ Bonnie Hunt
Nobody is going to invest in the Italian banks unless they trust their balance sheets.
~ Steve Eisman
The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.
~ Andre Leon Talley
When I first went to Kmart, I was so excited that I could bring my kind of taste to the masses. They didn't have 100 percent cotton sheets at mass market in 1987. We made those in yellow and pink and pale blue.
~ Martha Stewart
If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.
~ Donald Justice
ice sheets are melting faster than the models projected
~ Naomi Klein
How terrifying empty beds were. The neatness of the sheets and blankets was like the neatness of a mowed and trimmed graveyard.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
When Mary Lee awoke in the morning, she was in a vanilla-plain room, under crispy sheets, with white waffled blankets. Next to her bed was its identical twin. White and waffled. Waiting.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
EUROPA Europa costs you a dollar. No one cares, Including her. She's got clean sheets And a fire in winter. Why bother Becoming a bull, O Zeus!
~ Burton Raffel
This morning I prepared the bridal bed. How fresh the sheets smelt, The pillows were plump with anticipation, Like me. We've covered every angle, the mistress and me. I am to smother myself in her sweet perfume And let down my hair – although the colour does not compare. But he will not notice: The lights will be dimmed and the King will be blinded with love.
~ Carl Grose
Misery is when you make your bed and then your mother tells you it's the day she's changing the sheets.
~ Suzanne Heller
Trying to crack the code used on these sheets will be a perfect puzzle to fill the gaping void
~ Neal Stephenson
The rain blew in soft sheets, making the oncoming headlights shimmer.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets.
~ Leah Stussy, 2007
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
~ Dorothy Parker
In her experience every man thought he was a natural dancer, and every one thought he was good in bed. The truth was that most men only knew one dance step—usually the pogo—and between the sheets they were like a monkey in a nature film poking at an anthill with a stick.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is much more healthful not to, the doctors say." Seriously, there is something very refreshing about sheets and pillow slips just fresh from the line, after being washed and dried in the sun and air. Just try them that way and see if your sleep is not sweeter.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder