Bedside Quotes
59 quotes by 56 authors
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I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it.…
— Amanda Hocking
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My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these great dreams but…
— George R. R. Martin
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Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room…
— William Osler
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I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts…
— Giada De Laurentiis
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the…
— Earl Nightingale
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After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your…
— John Ratzenberger
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Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every…
— Mitt Romney
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My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the…
— Anne Fadiman
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger…
— Richard Wright
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I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
— Barbara Pym
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A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep…
— Dean Koontz
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She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my…
— Adeline Yen Mah
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She had thought she was going to save her mother, and now there was going to be nothing for her to do but sit by…
— Cassandra Clare
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We talked through Gillie's life from start to finish, including all her accomplishments and major life events. The woman fell asleep with a dreamy half…
— Maria V. Snyder
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There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My name is Herondale," the boy said cheerfully. "William Herondale, but everyone calls me Will. Is this really your room? Not very nice, is it?"…
— Cassandra Clare
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No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his…
— Melina Marchetta
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You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched him…
— Markus Zusak
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The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being…
— Kathryn Stockett
Who Wrote These Bedside Quotes
56 authors contributed a total of 59 Bedside Quotes, led by these top contributors: