Bed Quotes - page 3

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out. (Bohumil Hrabal)
Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. View quote
Thomas Browne
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal. View quote
Robert Silverberg
If you would sleep soundly, take a clear conscience to bed with you. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed. View quote
Brad Pitt
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul,' I cried. 'My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied.' View quote
William Butler Yeats
What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms. View quote
William Butler Yeats
O Rose, thou art sick The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. View quote
William Blake
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread. View quote
James Russell Lowell
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. (Ashleigh Brilliant)
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber Holy angels guard thy bed Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. View quote
Isaac Watts
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed. View quote
Mason Cooley
Item, I give unto my wife my second best bed, with the furniture. View quote
William Shakespeare
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. View quote
Ogden Nash
I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense. View quote
Sherman Alexie
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. View quote
Franz Kafka
When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself. View quote
Shirley MacLaine
If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door. (Michael Ondaatje)
I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed. View quote
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up. View quote
Ridley Pearson
A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning. View quote
Ricardo Semler
I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack. View quote
Simon Pegg