Recumbent Quotes

#1. The curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow.

Charles Dickens

#2. Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty ... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. I ride a recumbent bike for half an hour every day.

Don Rickles

#4. Believe me, I understand how fiendishly the Internet can tempt a body to indulge in diversion from one's responsibilities, more commonly known as iniquity. Idle hands are never the devil's workshop more than when those recumbent mitts are resting upon a computer keyboard.

Nick Offerman

#5. Vashon is an island, accessible by ferry from Seattle, mainly populated by NIMBY-ish hippies, NIMBY-ish yuppies, boutique farmers, and wizards riding recumbent bicycles. A full quarter of the children in Vashon schools are unvaccinated.

Lindy West

#6. I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

Tom Heinsohn

#7. You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

H.R. Giger

#8. The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

Steven Erikson

#9. Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Ben Carson

#10. Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.

Joseph Addison

#11. This stigma associated with drug use
the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic
has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

David Sheff

#12. And William laughed with his special blend of mischief, compounded of humor, spite, and sadness in a ratio even he wasn't sure of but that he mixed by feel.

Edmund White

#13. So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country.

Robert McChesney

#14. I should stop expecting so much.

Ishida Mitsunari

#15. Surfing - I have to go surfing.

Bryan Volpenhein

#16. If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

Edward Bond

#17. This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!

Adolf Hitler

#18. Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.

India.Arie

#19. Plato was right when he said that all evil comes from ignorance. He forgot that ignorance also comes from evil.

Peter Kreeft