Browsing Topic Best Bedfellows Quotes

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty…. Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses’ beard!

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There is no shortage of solicitation for endorsement, so you have to really know what you’re getting behind and be passionate about it. In this case, aside from just being a spokesperson, they’re benefiting a form of expression that is dear to me, painting.

There’s a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

In a sense, the music business and I haven’t always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you’re hoping you’ll find someone who’ll help you get your work into the world.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That’s where I stand.

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

Skepticism is history’s bedfellow.

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.

This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too, for the Tiwis, who dissolve the distinction between themselves and the cosmos. In quantum physics, subatomic particles influence each other from a distance, and this tallies with the aboriginal view, in which people, animals, rocks, and trees all weave together in the same interwoven fabric.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.