Eiderdown Quotes

#1. After a heavy snowfall one night in early December the snow formed a thick quilt from which the old man's face emerged like a sleeping child's above an eiderdown. Jim told himself that he never moved because he was warm under the snow.

J.G. Ballard

#2. The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0.

George Hamilton

#3. When I get up in the morning I go straight back to bed again. I feel best in the evening, the moment I dowse the candle, pull the eiderdown over my head. I raise myself up once more, look about the room with an indescribable peace of mind, and then it's goodnight, down under the eiderdown.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. I want to remember ... Smelling your newness upon this earth. The baby-Jesus smell as Grandma used to put it. Pure. Unsullied. Like the imagined smell in the twirling air of eiderdown feathers spin-floating around the yard on a new spring day.

Carew Papritz

#5. The stuff of nightmares is not only relegated to unconscious thoughts upon a pillow, safely beneath an eiderdown.

P.J. Parker

#6. I love being a Met. It was my favorite team growing up, so to be a Met to me is very special.

David Wright

#7. We live in a nation where corporations are people.

Lizz Winstead

#8. But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.

Jackson Browne

#9. He whispered, "My Firecracker...

Lesley Livingston

#10. It is interesting how - depending on the person in power - our LGBT issues are either right at the top of the list - or right at the very bottom. And almost always for exactly the wrong reasons.

Christina Engela

#11. Redeeming social value, indeed.

Simon Sheppard

#12. Be clear, conscious and circumspect about your dreams. Claim your blessings with your mouth.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. Two coconuts dropped beside him. Each went about its death throes with a slight bounce and languorous crawl then fell still.

Darrell Drake

#14. They refused to let him examine me unless a white doctor, hired by the state, was present, and for the report to the judge, the white doctor had to examine me.

Assata Shakur

#15. Happy were the ages when the starry sky was the map of all possible paths, ages of such perfect social integration that no drug was required to link the hero to the whole.

Ben Lerner

#16. Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.

Aldous Huxley

#17. When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love.

Madeleine L'Engle