Worn Out Sofa Quotes & Sayings

She would lean her head against the back pillow of the sofa, thinking that she lay in his arms. You would not think that she'd remember his face but it would spring up in detail, the face of a creased and rather tired-looking, satirical, indoor sort of man. Nor was his body lacking, it was presented as reasonably worn but competent, and uniquely desirable. — Alice Munro

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. — John Ruskin

I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world. — Linda Evangelista

Sing of disappointments more repeated than the batter of the sea, of lives embittered by resentments so ubiquitous the ocean's salt seems thinly shaken, of letdowns local as the sofa where I copped my freshman's feel, of failures as frequent as first love, first nights, last stands; do not warble of arms or adventurous deeds or shepherds playing on their private fifes, or of civil war or monarchies at swords; consider rather the slightly squinkered clerk, the soul which has become as shabby and soiled in its seat as worn-out underwear, a life lit like a lonely room and run like a laddered stocking. — William H Gass

[H]is gentle horses graze on fertile grasses and tempt me to ride off in search of answers to what if and what's out there and why not. Where everything around me hints there is more to offer but tells me time and again ... not for me. — Julie Cantrell

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness. — Eliza Bisbee Duffey

I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little. — Natalie Cole

Hold fast, then, to this sound and wholesome rule of life - that you indulge the body only so far as is needful for good health. The body should be treated more rigorously, that it may not be disobedient to the mind. — Seneca.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. — Jim Rohn