Featherbed Quotes

#1. He's heard Unitarianism called a featherbed for falling Christians, but his mother doesn't seem like a woman who has fallen anywhere. (Where is the featherbed for falling Unitarians, he wonders? Such as himself.) [From "Life Before Man," 1979)

Margaret Atwood

#2. Lying in a featherbed will not bring you fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

Dante Alighieri

#3. God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.

James Joyce

#4. He pulled me into the room and way lay on the featherbed and made love. And I was reminded of what was best about us.
How very easy and natural we could be as bodies, with no sharp angles or missteps and no need for talking.
How in bed, as nowhere else, he was my favorite animal and I was his.

Paula McLain

#5. We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

Edith Wharton

#7. I wondered if someone who had fire in their soul would have smoke coming out of their mouth.

Tarryn Fisher

#8. Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why human rights must not be ignored but given even greater prominence in times of economic crisis.

Irene Khan

#9. Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.

Henry Vaughan

#10. Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

Robert Jordan

#11. Biblical spirituality means powerlessness, living without embellishment or pretense, free to be faithful in the gospel, and free from anxiety about effectiveness or similar illusions of success.

William Stringfellow

#12. Feminine psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope ... "
"Never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves."
"No, sir."
"There are times when one wants to hear all about the poet Pope and times when one doesn't."
"Very true, sir.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

Jeff Goldblum