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"Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed."

Thomas Ken, English Clergyman

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"Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed."

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"At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill."

Tanya Tucker, American Musician

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"What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?"

David R. Brower, American Environmentalist

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"The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme."

Simon Newcomb, Canadian Mathematician

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"We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!"

Dave Matthews, South African Musician

"If I were asked for a one line answer to the question' What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.'"

Bob Guccione, American Publisher

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"I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning."

Gerard Butler, Scottish Actor

"I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody."

Joanna Lumley, English Actress

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"In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded."

John Dobbin, American Artist

Bed, Eyes, Laziness, Open

"It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room."

Danny DeVito, American Actor

"I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start."

Dale Evans, American Actress

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"Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening."

"When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation."

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"Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed."

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