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  • It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.

    New Orleans   Two   Car  
    Source: www.timeout.com
  • I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

    Book   Princess   Seven  
  • You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number.” “Er, five,” said the mattress. “Wrong,” said Marvin. “You see?

    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.357, Pan Macmillan
  • Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress. Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started.

    Lying   Book   Thinking  
    Ian Rankin (2014). “Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.170, Macmillan
  • I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.

    Giving   Needs   Honest  
    Details Interview, www.facebook.com. February 16, 2012.
  • The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

  • During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them on earth. This is somewhat comparable to the pull of the flesh when our alarm goes off early in the morning. Unless we put "mind over mattress" and carry out the resolves made the night before, we will experience our first defeat that day. Not sufficient to finish. Mission aborted.

  • An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went home and my boyfriend plunked out the notes for me, and I had to learn and prepare that song just so I could learn and know how that feels. I've never had that kind of detail in a rehearsal process. Jason Moore is absolutely unbelievable.

    Song   School   Home  
    Source: www.broadwayworld.com
  • Yesterday in Florida, President Obama kissed a woman on the cheek after she told him he looks good. Which explains why last night, Michelle made him sleep on Air Mattress One.

    Sleep   Night   Florida  
  • Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

    Ties   People   Parent  
    Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.26, Penguin
  • Insomnia is only mind over mattress.

    Sleep   Insomnia   Mind  
  • His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. "Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.

    Want   Taste   Towns  
  • Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting.

    Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin
  • When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim`s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the Reaping.

    Mother   Dream   Bed  
    Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.5, Scholastic Inc.
  • Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

    Marriage   Men   Mistress  
  • You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.

    "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
  • Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

    Strong   Believe   Self  
    "Gather Together in My Name". Book by Maya Angelou, p. 17, 1974.
  • Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

  • Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.

    Quilts   Lying   Renown  
  • When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.

    Gratitude   Sweet   Book  
  • The greatest thing about my house was that I was in the far end of it and I could make as much noise as I wanted. By the time I moved out, I had a full-sized piano, two full-sized organs, bits and pieces of a drum kit, and a whole computer set up for Pro Tools. I had this mattress in between the piano and the organ. That was the only walking room.

    Two   Piano   House  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • That's enough of that," Jesse said. Next thing I knew, he'd scooped me up. Only instead of carrying me to my bed and setting me down on it all romantically, you know, like guys do to girls in the movies, he just dumped me onto it, so I bounced around and would have fallen off if I hadn't grabbed the edge of the mattress. "Thanks," I said, not quite able to keep all of the sarcasm out of my voice.

    Girl   Sarcasm   Voice  
    Meg Cabot (2009). “Grave Doubts”, p.130, Pan Macmillan
  • America is the only country in the world where you can burn the flag but can't tear the tag off the mattress.

    Country   America   Tears  
  • When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.

    Country   Mean   Yield  
  • What do men want? Men want a mattress that cooks.

    Men   Want   Mattresses  
  • A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress

    Jealous   Wife   Nests  
    Robert Jordan (2010). “A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.122, Macmillan
  • The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

    Oysters   Cracks   World  
    'Death of a Salesman' (1949) act 1
  • I like those blow-up beds. "This becomes a full size bed in three minutes!" Well, a mattress kicks your ass. Zero seconds. "Yeah, but you can store this thing." You can store a bed, too - in the bedroom.

    Funny   Zero   Humor  
  • Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside me. "Not true," I say. "Where were you born? What's your favourite season? Anything." "Here. Florida," he says. "I remember a woman in a red dress with curly brown hair. Maybe she was my mother, I'm not sure. And summer. What about you?" The last part is said with a smile. He smiles so infrequently that I consider each one a trophy.

  • You sure about this?" he asked in a guttural voice. "I get down on that mattress right now, I'm not stopping until I'm inside of you.

    J.R. Ward (2010). “Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.129, Penguin
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