Couch Quotations

I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

I completely and utterly rely on my mum. Without my mum, I would not be anywhere at all. I'd literally just be a couch potato.

I'm a fan of the power nap. About twice a week, I'll stretch out on a little couch in my office for 20 minutes. I don't need a wake-up call; I pop right up, feeling refreshed.

Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before I did 'Elm Street' - I'd probably be on a psychiatrist's couch saying: 'Freddy ruined me.' But I'd already done 13 movies and years of non-stop theatre.

I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.

I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that's so silly of me! We only saw one of his films together, it was with a group of people, and when he kissed Deborah Kerr, I jumped off the couch and I ran up and I slapped the screen. I was so upset that my father was kissing this woman I didn't even know!

You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!

I can't just sit all day on the couch and expect the weight to come off. My goals are my new focus instead of food.

I want to prove to people who sit on a couch and don't do anything but criticize other people that, if you're a true athlete or martial artist, you're not old until you can't get up and walk around anymore.

So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It's like a new thing with families. But you've got to leave the nest and get out there.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'

I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.

You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I have this couch and I have this life and... is this going to be my prison?

I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.

I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.

There was a singer-songwriter who slept on our couch for a year when I was about 7 or 8. She used to sing these songs for us, and I loved it. It was magical to watch her.

So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah.

French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.

What would happen if our clothes were Internet-enabled? Can you imagine if you lost a sock? You could send out a search, and sock No. 3117 would respond that it's under the couch in the living room.

When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break.

We found one old black dog on a couch that was near starvation. Another dog died in the bedroom. We were all bawling and crying.

When I was a kid, we went to St. Augustine, Fla., and I was lying on the couch one night with a Q-tip, cleaning my ear out after I'd taken a shower. I hit my arm on something, jabbed the Q-tip through my ear drum, busted my ear drum and couldn't get back in the water the rest of the time we were there.

Wayne Robertson is probably a couple of weeks away while Rohan Couch joined in a few drills and should be right to go next week.

Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon,about being a couch potato,stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.

She smelled the smoke, called 911 and went in and saw the couch was in flames. He was on the couch.

She smelled the smoke, called 911, and went in and saw the couch was in flames. He was on the couch.

Sitting back on the couch watching on TV is one thing; actually being there with 40 cameras on you is something completely different. I never thought I would feel that much pressure over some shots.

Maybe we can get some couch potatoes in the outdoors.

My life is so active, and I'm fighting the whole day that I don't have any aggressiveness or any energy outside of fighting. I'm the most chill couch potato you could ever meet.

Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.

My grandparents, I'm sure, were nervous sitting on the couch watching. And I hear that my dad had some friends over to his house. My sister's in Winnipeg and I'm sure they were all glued to the TV and cheering and sweeping on that last shot.

My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!

Nothing. I'm going to lay on my couch and do absolutely nothing.

Right now, I eat three meals a day and take three meal-replacement shakes. But I also put a lot of time in to working out. You can't sit around on your couch and eat chips and think you're going to be 300 pounds and in shape. If you're going to be big, you better be prepared to work at it, too.

People want a celebrity designer they trust and an esthetic to tell them what color and couch goes with which table -- and hers is instantly recognizable.

On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining, While my soul expands with glee, What are kings and crowns to me?

I was sitting on my couch watching and thinking, if only I had taken my education that much more seriously I'd be out there also.

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.

I did spend much of my 20s sitting on a couch playing video games and ordering disgusting food.

I'm an absolute clean freak. I'll go to my friends' houses and even start cleaning. I'm such a granny at heart. My couch is my best friend.

I fall asleep on the couch in front of the TV. It's very rare that I see the end of any show.

He talked to me a lot about problems he was having. Sometimes he was just depressed. He hated Hollywood, ... At one point, he told me he had been on the psychiatric couch for 35 years and it wasn't doing him any good.

He's back where he belongs. He spent some time on the couch with the psychiatrist and now he is out of the rubber room. He has all the ability in the world. But he thrives at home, he has been much better since we got him home from The Meadowlands. He really did not like the heat.

He had been a very private person up until this past year. It certainly was a bizarre turn in terms of how he handles his personal life and the access that he gave the media to himself. The endless posing on the red carpet and just smooching like they were on the couch at home.

There is a great deal of concern about this seeming attempt to couch everything in religious terms. We're not a narrow-minded nation, and at least some of the people trying to define the Republican Party are coming off that way.

To come seventh at the Olympics after a year of sitting on the couch isn't horrible. But I wanted to win.

Good for her, ... I think too many people live by the calendar and become couch potatoes. I think people should do what they want to do and what they can do.

He was sitting on the couch in his pajamas. He had on his reading glasses, and he was facing the TV.

He like, (choking sound), and I look at the end of the couch and it's covered with this foamy green vomit.

I think it's a hard drug to get the consumers off of frankly. We've certainly seen that in our surveys. Many consumers have become very dependent on incentives to motivate them to get up off the couch and into showrooms.

I think it's a hard drug to get the consumers off of frankly, ... We've certainly seen that in our surveys. Many consumers have become very dependent on incentives to motivate them to get up off the couch and into showrooms.

Last August, I was sitting on a couch wondering if I was ever going to play golf again. A year later, I'm playing in the Tour Championship. Right now, after all that, life is pretty good.

I went to a friend's house and we just started using. I took myself out of the picture for a second, and I looked around at every single person in the room - at who they were, how old they were and what they had going on in their lives. A lot of them were near to 30, unemployed, living off their parents... they were heroin addicts. They were just guys on The World's Biggest Couch Tour.

I was a couch potato until my mother talked me into swimming,

I saw an armadillo trying to get up on the couches that were floating and the armadillo and my cat were sitting up on the couch floating like this looking at each other, you know, at the point in time it was hilarious and I reached to get my camera but the water had come up so fast that the camera was underwater.

Rise to meet him in a pretty disorder - yes- O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

Remember, what does 'retirement' mean? It doesn't mean that you're a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If you're bicycling five miles a day, that's leisure, but it certainly takes a lot of effort.

Some people aren't touchy-feely, but I grew up in a family where you'd walk into the family room and there'd be five people on the couch with an arm here, an arm there, everyone scratching and taking turns.

My Roomba's name is Roswell. There is the moment when you are sitting on the couch and Roomba turns itself on and goes out and starts working. You really appreciate it because it works hard for you, and it deserves some kind of recognition.

Living these cinematic battles in high-definition with stunning surround sound, all from the comfort of your living room couch on the Xbox 360, is an extraordinary experience. Adding the ability to battle it out with friends via Xbox Live is also really exciting.

Matt Leinart's L.A. duplex looks more like a Chuck E. Cheese safe house than a millionaire jock's crash pad. There's the requisite leather couch and flat-screen television, but the rest of the ground floor is bare except for a pile of Nick Jr. DVDs, a high chair, and a SpongeBob SquarePants director's chair.

I wish I had another year with this program. But I know it's on the right track. I can see myself next year sitting on the couch in my old Gator uniform watching and cheering while they win championships. I know it's going to happen." ()

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

I think people are becoming more disgusted with illegal immigration. I'm thankful that people are getting off the couch and taking back their country.

The analogy that I like to use is it doesn't do a lot of good to buy a condo on the beach that the mortgage is so high on it you can't put any furniture in it. You have no couch or TV. And a part of this process is to be able to inspect that condo and make sure that it's worth what you think it might be worth.

We have a lot of couch potatoes out there. Hopefully, we can get away from that.

Tim Couch: He's like Couch from the point that you see him watching film in there quite a bit,

We've been friends for 25 years, and he slept on my couch when he couldn't get a job. I loaned him $100 (56 pounds) so he could get his first set of head shots, so it's particularly gratifying, truly, for me to see him rise.

Unless you're a total couch potato, you can go on these walks. But if you can't walk up two flights of stairs, maybe you would want to skip it.

When Domino's Pizza approached M5 Industries and asked us to design and build the Steak Fanatic Pizza Couch, I knew it was something we wanted to be part of. The Steak Fanatic Pizza Couch is like a guy's dream come true -- only the coolest gadgets and Domino's Pizza all within arm's reach.

We've been playing all winter. The baskets are above ground, so snow isn't that much of a problem. Even when there's two feet of snow on the ground we'll be out playing because it's better than sitting on the couch wishing you were out playing.

We're the only people I know that know the number of a couch repair company. They would fly around the house and break stuff. You had to keep them corralled.

We also have a free PlayStation sitting in front of a comfortable couch and other pay video games throughout the rink.

What that told me was that the quarterback is the key to the whole deal, ... For Urban to be sleeping on that couch hours after the biggest win of his career told me it's that important.

As soon as we have power, that will be the only thing that's keeping us from opening. There'll be couch dances as soon as we can get open.

Cyclists naturally latch onto it. But it's a real mix that I've heard from. Some are couch potatoes. Some are people who wonder what it's like to ride that many miles. Some people think it's funny. It's curious that people take away different things from it.

The response has been tremendous. People hear it once, and they get up off the couch to buy the album.

There was a casting couch in his office. His office was all in white. Behind the desk were his Oscars, and they were spotlighted very dramatically. And next to them were a series of shelves containing French perfumes and nylon stockings. For services rendered.

I slept on the couch for seven days. I wouldn't even go to bed because I was in front of the TV.

I visited Lou Reed in New York a few times before I went away. I visited them a few times when I was still living at home- took the train down. I hung out with the Velvet Underground a bit, slept on their manager's couch but it was Steve Selznick not Danny Fields.

People hate change; we knew we'd be fighting against that. They miss the couch and the globe,

This is the thing I've learned, after a lot of couch time: There are always red flags. You need to look for those red flags along the way so you don't continue to make the same mistakes with another person.

This list enables everyone to take a lighthearted look back at 2005. We laughed at Tom Cruises' shenanigans on Oprah's couch and cringed when we learned of the Pitt/Aniston break up. From Washington to Hollywood, this was a roller coaster year that provided great material for our current list.

They're hungry. They're sitting on the couch barking right now.

There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety. Only when he knows they are out of danger does he allow himself to sit down on the couch and admit he's injured - to a horrified Elena.

It was on Monday. I was fine all day, ... I got up off the couch and felt a pop in my foot. It actually just felt almost like a strain; I thought, 'Well, it's just a strain,' because I still had some bruising in there and it was still tender.

It was reported that the Clintons plan on selling their home in Chappaqua. There's already a plaque on the couch that says "The President Slept Here.

It's a how-to show with entertainment and a live audience, ... It's not a talk show ? I don't see a couch anywhere.

It's all about winning with me, ... I want to go out there and win. I realize I'm throwing the ball pretty well and I'm strong at the end of the year. But when the season's over and I sit on my couch I'll look back and if things finish out like they are, I'll feel pretty good about myself. But I can't sit and look at it now because the wins aren't getting done.

It's good to be back. When I was sick, I still watched the games. That wasn't fun, watching from the couch when I knew I could be playing.

It's funny to us -- we have no attachment to the couch. The couch is so incongruous with the show. One thing that's been made really clear over the last few years is that it's not a talk show. We don't know what it is. It's a thing unto itself.

It's hard to go from being super active to sitting on the couch all day every day.

It's hard to get started. Hard because you want to lay on the couch and be lazy.