Cushions Quotes

Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action -- *four* counts. Do you confess?
Wilde: I don't understand what I'm accused of.
Ximinez: Ha! Then we'll make you understand! Biggles! Fetch...THE CUSHIONS!
Biggles: Here they are, lord.
Ximinez: Now, old lady -- you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of heresy, reject the works of the ungodly -- *two* last chances. And you shall be free -- *three* last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.
Wilde: I don't know what you're talking about.
Ximinez: Right! If that's the way you want it -- Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions!
Ximinez: Confess! Confess! Confess!
Biggles: It doesn't seem to be hurting her, lord.
Ximinez: Have you got all the stuffing up one end?
Biggles: Yes, lord. - Monty Python

We put some pew cushions on just about three years or so ago, ... We're turning into something of wimps with pew cushions and air conditioning. - David Hess

Therein is a fountain flowing, / Therein are thrones raised high, / And drinking-cups ready placed, / And cushions set in a row, / And carpets spread out. - Quran

The market has an asymmetrical bias towards upside risk because we've lost those cushions. - Lawrence Goldstein

Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them. - Anthea Turner

She flung herself full-length on the stage, drummed with her feet and, taking the corner of a small Persian rug in her teeth, worried it [while] I sat rigid and appalled on the sofa, pressed back against the chintz cushions. - Alec Guinness

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time. - Erma Bombeck

If you can't afford a $2,000 couch, go to a retailer like Ikea and buy a $500 or $600 sofa and have a local upholstery shop or fabric store make new cushions to fit inside the covers. - Jennifer Litwin

I woke up about a foot away from her. There were no cushions and it was apparently, one of the causes of cot death, wherever they are, is that a baby just stops breathing. - Emma Smith