"The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed."
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"If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days."
"Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed."
"Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success."
"Before checking that last email before you go to bed, say to yourself, No, I am important. This is important. My body is more important."
"I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed."
"The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them."
"Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?"
"Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied.""
"The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay."
"even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished."
"And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again."
"Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold on me; for my particular grief Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself."
"For what good turn? Messenger: For the best turn of the bed."
"The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming morn as much as we this night over-watch'd."
"I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go and type it up afterwards. I've always done that. Those things become habitual."
"serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning."
"It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep."
"I'm pretty pale. In high school I was insecure and thought it'd be cool to go to a tanning bed. Now I just let it look the way it looks."
"I'm thankful that when I go to bed at night, that I have been myself that day. And, I have been myself all the days before that."