Famous Quotes & Sayings

James K. Polk

The Presidency is not a bed of roses.

James K. Polk

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

Laura Esquivel

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]

Nigella Lawson

I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.

Nora Roberts

- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.

Miranda July

I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.

Johnny Ball

The greatest invention of all time is the grid system created by Frenchman Rene Descartes. For a fellow who stayed in bed until lunchtime all his life, Rene didn't do too badly.

A Happy House has two bedrooms and a general area. It has a cement floor and either cement or stone walls, plus a tin roof.

Alexander Fleming

A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps

You want to be close to your child. I can understand why mothers bring their children into the bed, but there are other options.

Fantasia Barrino

And my mom comes upstairs and she says, 'Something is wrong with you.' I wouldn't even talk. She says, 'Have you been touched?' I still said nothing. I laid in that bed for two days. I wouldn't even go to school.

Karl Shapiro

And in a comic mood, In mid-air take to bed a wife.

All ticket proceeds from the concert will go to help buy bed nets.

All my scenes are in my bedroom trying on corsets, ... There's a little bit of nudity, but it's tasteful, behind a screen and in shadow. It's really a wonderful play about characters who are bound in one way or another, bound by conventions or circumstance or race.

The marital duty is not being fulfilled. Why are we with you women? Just think about itàwe have a strong sex drive. You need to do your part and keep the marriage bed pure. Whenever your husband wants sex it is your duty to say yes.

Jim Calhoun

Their big guys dominated us. Last night when I went to bed or this morning when I woke up, I would never have thought that would have happened. Maybe a wash, but certainly not that.

Their bed in the NICU was decked out with Duck gear.

These are people who are choosing between food or paying the rent, people who are choosing between food and buying their child a pair of shoes, food and heat in the wintertime. They?re seniors who are choosing whether to buy food or pay for medicine. Folks are going entire days without anything to eat at all. They are literally going to bed hungry.

This has been like tapping into a whole bed of energy that's been underground. It's like a volcano erupting.

All I did sometimes was get home from school and do homework until I went to bed. There was just no clowning around.

Jennifer Lopez

And the doctor was like, 'No, you're fine. You need to rest, that's all.' I stayed in bed the whole weekend just relaxing, and people came over and cooked for me. I was back that Monday and was fine.

William Gass

And the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

Fidel Castro

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

A pump style dredge system, and they'll be sucking the sand off of near shore sand beds and pumping it directly onto the beach.

Allen Covert

As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.

Michael Leunig

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

Roland's probably been in Heat more than me, ... I can't believe that people actually want to know what bed linen I buy, or what food eat.

Thomas Jones

Right now we're having a pause, a stable period, to bed down. In 2005 and 2006 there are no new standards and very few changes.

Presently, we have a hard time just dealing with Friday and Saturday nights, ... Our emergency rooms are jammed, patients wait hours to get into the ER and days to go from the ER to a bed upstairs in our hospitals. That has been true for several years.

Presently, we are in the bed of a lake. We are in the middle of something like Lake Alice.

Putting to bed this whole question of Pilgrim's independence, and finally getting that noise behind them, probably would help those who work at Pilgrim better focus on the job they have to do.

Susan Sontag

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....To be a travelerand novelists are often travelersis to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home.