Quotes About Reclining

#1. Dali's Reclining Woman Wearing a Chemise looks like a dead slaughtered doll, and I can see preying eagles, broken arrows, and jazz musicians in Jackson Pollock, and because I believe that Man Ray and Duchamp were lovers.

Dionne Brand

#2. My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my self-esteem.

James Burrows

#3. You slide so good with bones so fair, you've got the universe reclining in your hair ...

Marc Bolan

#4. What happened?" Lillian asked as Daisy walked into the Marsden parlor. She was reclining on the settee with a periodical. "You look as if you've been run over by a carriage."
"I had an encounter with an ill-mannered pig, actually.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."

William Hazlitt

#6. Sweetheart, if it's not too much of an imposition, I would be forever beholden to you if you could kindly assume a reclining position so I can screw your brains out.

Kerrelyn Sparks

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

Sigmund Freud

#8. Finally here, Imma star with the timing. My swagger is chill and my flow is reclining.

Drake

#9. You see pictures of Buddha and he's sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.

Dave Eggers

#10. Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

Louis Nizer

#11. Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.

Edward Abbey

#12. Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

Edward T. Hall

#13. I had not truly realized how done in I was until I was reclining in the tub, Colin slumped behind me with his chin resting atop my head.

Anonymous

#14. There, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white ... something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell.

Bram Stoker

#15. How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Walter Scott

#16. I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

Ayelet Waldman

#17. You are obviously writing out of experience and so the boundaries are always blurred, it is just that sometimes it would seem that you are playing with fire a little bit by choosing someone that obviously existed.

Robert Dessaix

#18. Life is a dream; life is a journey. Life is a miracle, a search for destiny.

Debasish Mridha

#19. I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others, to acquire something I might call universal compassion, and also a sense of responsibility, responsibility for the state of my conscience.

Zbigniew Herbert

#20. Just look at the Chinese characters used for the names of the days of the week. Color-wise, Monday (Moon) would be yellow. Tuesday (Fire) is red. Wednesday (Water) is blue. Thursday (Wood) is green. Friday (Gold) would be gold, Saturday (Earth) would be light brown. sunday (Sun) would be white.

Nagaru Tanigawa

#21. If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

Robin Morgan

#22. An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

Emil Cioran

#23. I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.

E.P. Thompson