Pillow Quotations

There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.

Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night.

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.

Money has never been my drive. I have never seen the shortage of money in my life, so for me, I don't want to buy a silk pillow or a private jet... My drive is to achieve more than what my grandfather achieved; my drive is to make a name for myself, get rid of this 'star son' tag that has been attached to me.

Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.

Where, like a pillow on a bed, / A pregnant bank swelled up, to rest / The violet's reclining head, / Sat we two, one another's best.

When we were looking for a weekend place, ... Shannon was working at Jacob's Pillow in the Berkshires, and I was tooling around. I called her all excited about getting a home up there. But she said: 'Yeah, but it's a three-hour drive. When do we have the time for a three-hour drive? With our one day off, we'll come up and we'll have to go home right away.'

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

May you have food and raiment, a soft pillow for your head, May you be forty years in heaven before the devil knows you're dead.

Nothing ever happened, but I slept with a knife under my pillow and never spoke to him, from the age of about 13 until I left home four years later.

Nicole showed up to meet me in an airport once wearing a sweatsuit, with a leopard-print neck pillow tied around her neck, an 'I Love L.A.' cap, and her hair in pigtails, ... I think she was doing it to torture me.

I would be honored just to be the pillow upon which this courageous man lays down to rest his head.

I got sick of all the creams and lotions out there and waking up with a dirty pillow and even bigger pimples, ... It's exciting for me to see my baby getting out there.

I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

I brought a cooler, comforter, pillow and snacks, ... I watched the game last night, and decided I'd get here as soon as possible. It's been 12 years since we've been in the playoffs, and I didn't want to miss the opportunity.

Her mission in the diplomatic staff of the South African government was to meet people from the U.S. State Department and get involved in classified pillow talk.

I respect your opinion. And don't forget to put that tooth under your pillow tonight.

Pillow talk in our family has always been a little different than other people's.

Pillow Girl. It's a statement on sexuality and femininity, the oppression of women. It lets you read so many things into it.

When I first started touring, we had a crappy van, and we would all share rooms. So for many years as a grown adult woman, I would share a bed with a bandmate, whether it would be Jimmy Tamborello from the Postal Service or Pierre De Reeder from Rilo Kiley, just a pillow barrier between us sleeping on the same bed.

Well, just coming off the stage and there's like 180,000 people out there and your adrenaline is going so high, and you're doing so much and it's hard to just put your head on the pillow and sleep because it just goes on and on, even after you're off the stage.

We just want to inspire girls to have pillow fights and then drive to the beach and break up with their boyfriends!

To take an Annamite to bed with you is like taking a bird: they twitter and sing on your pillow

I wake up and put my head on a pillow every night looking for opportunity in the music and movie worlds. We are interested in growing sales; these are important areas to our stores, and we are a growth company.

So Ric is forced into the position of having to do something he would never have intended to do. Ric thinks, 'I have to stand by him.' He is pulled back to a place of a much darker Ric - the same place he was in when he was holding a pillow over Elizabeth's head and chaining Carly to the wall. But when he actually shoots Ruiz, it surprises him. It certainly surprises Ruiz.

People really are very concerned when they put their head on the pillow at night - they're concerned that America may cease to be what America has been because we are leveraging the future of our children and our grandchildren.

There seems to be a great pillow in the middle. Creativity and flexibility are discouraged.

At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

It was a defensive struggle to the end. A pillow fight. We buckled to the pressure and didn't take care of the ball late in the game.

I had a dream last night, I was eating a ten pound marshmallow. I woke up this morning and the pillow was gone.

If you think this will sunset, then you believe the tooth fairy will leave a dollar under your pillow tonight. Voucher proponents fervently hope that this is permanent.

I just thank God I had a pillow to lay my head on.

I just felt that you didn't want a leader who was at times going into his side office, lying on the floor, putting a pillow on his head,

Clearly this was Dick Morris' day in the sun. And if he would have been careful and obviously not been quite as bravado to his pillow mate, the reality is he could have had a very lucrative career in the future.

The past is no farther away than your pillow.

An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns.

A clear conscience is the softest pillow in the world.

And in a chair well-knownMy mother sat, and did not tireWith reading all alone.If I should make the slightest soundTo show that I'm awake,She'd rise, and lap the blankets round,My pillow softly shake;Kiss me, and turn my face to seeThe shadows on the wall,And then sing Rousseau's Dream to me,Till fast asleep I fall.

And in a chair well-known My mother sat, and did not tire With reading all alone. If I should make the slightest sound To show that I'm awake, She'd rise, and lap the blankets round, My pillow softly shake; Kiss me, and turn my face to see The shadows on the wall, And then sing Rousseau's Dream to me, Till fast asleep I fall.

The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.

It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.

Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.

I bit a pillow. Or two.

The pillow is a silent Sibyl, and it is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards

Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.