There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I kill a sofa for you and you go and sit in a chair?” Skulduggery asked. “I don’t think you appreciate the… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!'… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
When it comes to art, buy with your eyes, not your ears. I tried very hard not to 'decorate' with art. Art… — Jason Pomeranc Copy Share Image
The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Ready?" Jaime echoed. "Yes, yes, I am ready. I am ready to drink a lot of liquids and lie on the sofa… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My apartment's only about a block away." "Isn't that handy." "Fate," he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I'm a what?" gasped Harry. "A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
If you are on Craigslist to get a sofa, and you see one for free. You think there’s something tragically wrong with… — Jessica Hische Copy Share Image
Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
If I'm alone at home, I get increasingly restless, bothered by the idea that I'm missing some crucial encounter out there somewhere.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests,… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
He was a super shiny boy and I liked the shape of him. Under the blanket. In the shower. I liked his… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire'… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with its touch and you have a right to act… — Hugh Elliot Copy Share Image
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
When I first met Lars [Von Trier] he was sat on the sofa wearing socks and sandals. He wanted me to imagine… — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
The first time The Runaways played in Britain, Joan Jett wore my bullet belt onstage. The Runaways were really the first all-girl… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself?… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
There were other stories and other names. Second Base Stace, who had breasts in fourth grade and let some of the boys… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or… — Maggie Q Copy Share Image