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  • Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

    Fall   Sleep   Hammocks  
  • For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you.

    Children   Lying   Sleep  
    Susan Cooper (1977). “Silver on the Tree”, Simon & Schuster
  • An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.

    Men   Two   Hammocks  
  • You was talkin' out of yer head last night, too," chortles Davy. "No one's gonna fancy me. I'm gonna be ugly and no on'es gonna fancyme!" he mimics, mincing about the hammock. "You are such a rum cove, Jacky, for thinkin' such things when yer just about beat t' death! Fancy me? Fancy me? Jacky, no one's gonna fancy us, we're all gonna end up lookin' like Snag!" "Which is how a salty dog sailor's supposed to look," says Willy with a firm nod. "And you're halfway there, Jack-o!" crows Tink. Ah, the sweet comfort of friends.

    Sweet   Dog   Night  
  • It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

  • Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

    Night   Clouds   Black  
    Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”
  • If Spiderman was real, and I was a criminal, and he shot me with his web, I would say, "Dude, thanks for the hammock."

    Funny   Real   Humor  
  • I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

    Nature   Nice   Silence  
  • The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

    Lying   Struggle   Robots  
  • Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

  • My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.

    Vegetables   Goal   House  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

    Games   Ties   History  
  • For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

    July   Years   Secret  
    "The Way You Wear Your Hat : Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'". Book by Bill Zehme, 1997.
  • A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

    Herman Melville (1855). “Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile”, p.20
  • The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

    Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.420, Delphi Classics
  • July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.

    Sweet   Beach   Garden  
  • People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

    Work   Naps   People  
    Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.146, New Press, The
  • The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]

    Distance   Lying   Two  
    Dan Kieran, Tom Hodgkinson (2012). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.194, Random House
  • I would start a revolution, but I just bought a hammock.

    Funny   Humor   Hammocks  
  • Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

    Rocks   Two   Hammocks  
    Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
  • The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes, The meadow creeps implacable and still; A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies. One two three the cows bulge on the hill.

    Dog   Lying   Eye  
    Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.17, Macmillan
  • What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the forefinger of Mammon; its freight of nominal Christians elegantly moaning meanwhile over the evils of the times, and not at ease unless fanned by eloquence and music, and sprinkled by social adulations into perfumed, unheroic slumber.

    Joseph Cook (1881). “Scepticism and Rationalism: Elective Affinities and Hereditary Descent”
  • I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!

    Beautiful   Lying   Hands  
  • I fell out of the hammock while I was sleeping. (Arik) On your head? (Geary) Apparently. Good thing it’s hard, huh? (Arik)

  • You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.

  • Some sins have no season. We are as likely to be angry in November as to lose our rag in March ... There is, though, something autumnal about greed, apple-cheeked and wheat-crowned, purpled knee-high in grapes; something summery in sloth, as the hammock creaks in the fly-drowsy heat; and more than a tickle of spring in lust, as birds pair and the sap rises. Among these, ingratitude is winter, the worst of seasons.

  • Yes?" she asked, eyeing me guardedly. I struck out a hand and said "Shake." Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. "One good fight doesn't make you a warrior," she said. "Shake!" I repeated angrily. "And if I don't?" she asked. "I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do," I growled. Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. "Power to you, Darren Shan," she said gruffly. "Power," I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night.

    Eye   Fighting   Warrior  
  • My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

    Lying   Reading   Phones  
  • Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.

  • I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A hammock in a freshly mown backyard? A verandah overlooking the summer sea? Good choices, every one. But I have no doubt that they are all merely displacements, sentimental attempts to replicate the warmth and snugness of my mother's lap.

    Summer   Mother   Reading  
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