Quotes About Couches

#1. We sit on park benches and beaches and couches and hilltops, listening and dreaming seemingly to no particular purpose. But isn't it often the case that when we cease to move and think, we see and hear and understand a great deal?

Brian Doyle

#2. England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.

Lydia M. Child

#3. Sammy is Upoopia!" my baby shouted and clapped his hands, instantly bringing all the furniture in the room to life. Couches and chairs upended their occupants and began to dance around the room recklessly.
"Outstanding," Satan yelled as he tangoed with a chaise. "My great nephew is tremendous".

Robyn Peterman

#4. I love animals to the extent that my home is my dog's home! Which means that nothing is too good for my Freckles-chairs, couches, beds. But I do draw the line on chipmunks nibbling at my table linens, bedding, blankets, etc.

Kate Smith

#5. This is the sort of thing we should say by the fireside in the winter-time, as we lie on soft couches after a good meal, drinking sweet wine and crunching chickpeas: Of what country are you, and how old are you, good sir? And how old were you when the Mede came?

Herodotus

#6. I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

John Lithgow

#7. She hated walls. For her, they had always been the jaws of a trap.
Ferro frowned at the bed. She hated beds, and couches, and cushions. Soft things make you soft, and she did not need them.

Joe Abercrombie

#8. I just did whatever it took to keep making music - slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out.

Daniel Powter

#9. Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.

Peter Thiel

#10. I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.

Sherri Shepherd

#11. I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

Jenny McCarthy

#12. The Iraqis sat down for talks on how to put together a post-war government. They would have sat down yesterday, but somebody stole all their couches.

Jay Leno

#13. Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

Sigmund Freud

#14. People grow couches and bikes and concrete in their front gardens instead of roses.

Leanne Hall

#15. I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.

Ellsworth Kelly

#16. I don't sleep. I wait. I sleep in cars and on couches. I sleep when I can, but when I can't sleep, I just don't, so I figure there's a higher calling keeping me on point that night.

Charlie Sheen

#17. A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper
hats, new couples falling from couches and love-
seats - the pleasure remembered,
never the regret.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#18. In that hushed hour between midnight and dawn when Morpheus' sable hands touch the rosy finger tips of Aurora and even the fairies are slumbering on their flowery couches,

Anya Seton

#19. It's a mistake to possess comfortable things," he said now. "Soft couches, big beds, large bath tubs, the like. Because if nothing is comfortable you don't settle in; you keep moving. And if you keep moving, you have a better chance of staying ahead of the people who are trying to catch up with you.

Robert Littell

#20. My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run.

Kevin Plank

#21. You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.

Gene Kelly

#22. Yay! Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug - even Octavian, who didn't look thrilled about it.

Rick Riordan

#23. New Rule: Stop leaving couches on the sidewalk. Besides being lazy and ugly, it's animal cruelty. You teach your dog not to pee on the couch, and then when you take him to the place he's supposed to pee, there's a couch.

Bill Maher

#24. My palms began sweating as I took in the enormous, opulent study. Tomes lined each wall like the soldiers of a silent army, and couches, desks, and rich rugs were scattered throughout the room.

Sarah J. Maas

#25. If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.

Taylor Kinney

#26. Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

David Ogden Stiers

#27. I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.

John Wayne

#28. The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.

Sean Kinney

#29. I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.

Sean Parker

#30. When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his pickup truck. Then he writes for the rest of the day.

Kelly Link

#31. I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.

Donna Lynn Hope

#32. You dump trash. You dump yard waste and old ripped couches that smell like body odor and forgetfulness. You dump cigarette butts and banana peels and hazardous waste. But people?

Autumn Doughton

#33. You should own stuff, but make sure they are indispensable stuff. A family of three can simplify to the point of owning just three beds, two couches, three dressers, one table, few chairs, one desk, eight plates, eight glasses, eight bowls and some toys and books for the kids.

George Lucas

#34. Emil stood on the other side, bags under his
eyes, his hair disheveled. I'd never seen him look so
unkempt. He actually seemed depressed. I motioned
for him to come in. When he did, I shut the door and
he followed me to the couches.

Angela Corbett

#35. If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.

Deb Caletti

#36. What have we fallen in love with that's not as effective as it used to be? What do we love doing that's not really working? What's off limits for discussion? Do we have any "old couches" that need to be thrown out?

Andy Stanley

#37. It needs to be said that sometimes my mom forgets important details when she talks. Like the time she told us she was considering leather (couches, it turns out), or when I was little and she said, "Here's a napkin to put your balls in" (the Atomic Fireballs that I was eating, she meant).

Bill Konigsberg

#38. I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.

Michelle Williams

#39. I had put a shower curtain on the floor, covered the couches and our new flat-screen TV with garbage bags. The midwife asked, "What do you think is going to happen in here?" I never said I was smart.

Jim Gaffigan

#40. There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

Ben Affleck

#41. I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

Alicia Keys

#42. Couches and tables and beds don't make a home. Home is where you feel less alone.

A. Lynn

#43. She grinned. "Don't you want to build a huge interstellar spaceship, load it full of videogames, junk food, and comfy couches, and then get the hell out of here?" "I'm up for that, too," I said. "if it means I get to spend the rest of my life with you.

Ernest Cline

#44. All bodies are radiant but not all radiance is visible: stars radiate visible light; planets and donkeys and couches radiate infrared waves. (If your couch is emitting visible light GET UP IMMEDIATELY!)

Amy Leach

#45. My favorite room in the house is the living room. We have two big couches, six recliners and over 20 pillows. It's a really comfortable place to hang out with my family.

Cody Linley

#46. ACT5.15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.

Anonymous

#47. Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.

Sam Altman

#48. I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.

Tom Sizemore

#49. Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies.

Jill Soloway

#50. For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.

Alice Sebold

#51. Luckily, I didn't get too beaten up before someone gave me a shot, but there were times when I was living on friends' couches and eating five-dollar subs from Subway almost every meal.

Robbie Amell

#52. Dogs: the best friend you will ever have that pees on your couch and stays your friend.

Dana Gould

#53. I couch-surfed for years. But I always wanted to live in Baltimore; I still do. If I had to choose, it would always be Baltimore.

John Waters

#54. Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair.

Lillian Hellman

#55. Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch.

John Wayne

#56. The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

Claudette Colbert

#57. I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped-as it is when you've been shot across the chest.

Anthony Head

#58. I'm still the person on my friend's couch, and I'd like to own the couch.

Kelly Reichardt

#59. When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries.

Demetri Martin

#60. I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations.

H.L. Mencken

#61. When you travel so much, the best and most relaxing thing is to just sit on the couch and not move.

Serena Williams

#62. In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Robert Burns

#63. When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.

Frederick Lenz

#64. Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling.

Jennifer Tilly

#65. That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

John Milton

#66. Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

Clay Shirky

#67. All cats love a cushioned couch.

Theocritus

#68. I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

Shirley Conran

#69. O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

William Congreve

#70. There's nothing more I love than McDonald's dollar menu. With just the change I find between my couch cushions, I can eat something with the nutritional value of a couch cushion.

Stephen Colbert

#71. For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

John Le Carre

#72. I don't like going out that much. When I'm out, I think about my couch.

Jennifer Lawrence

#73. [T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Lynn Townsend White Jr.