Quotes 41 till 60 of 156.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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Friends will keep you sane,
Love could fill your heart,
A lover can warm your bed,
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Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ballplayer. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
Source: Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979) -
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.
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He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.
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Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
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Here's to the day when it is May
And care as light as a feather,
When your little shoes and my big boots
Go tramping over the heather.Source: A Toast -
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
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I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.
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I never read in bed, only in my study.
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said "no."
Source: Standup Comic (1999) -
If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day.
Source: Court Hustler (1973) -
If I were asked for a one line answer to the question' What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.
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If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
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If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.
Source: Doing It Our Way, New Statesman & Society, 2 February 1990, tr. Alfred MacAdam
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