#bed

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone? ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#alone #bed #chaste #god #goddess

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#does #earth #ground #life #live

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#back #bed #been #could #first

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next. ↗

— James Purefoy

#dying #extreme #hospitals #maternity #minute

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#roses #sleeps #thorns

If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#argument #bed #career #child #child actors

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#best #climbed #ladder #opportunity #stepping

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. ↗

— Simon Raven

#attitude #bed #civilized #did #god

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#age #barbed #barbed wire #borders #electrified

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#bed #beneath #bread #five #i