Bunk Quotes:

History is more or less bunk.

- Henry Ford

topic: Life, History, Bunk

Religion is all bunk.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Religion, Bunk

So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake...Religion is all bunk.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Fake, Atheism, Bunk

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

topic: Beautiful, Brave New World, Bunk, Brave New World Character

What's this about flashing underwear?" says Uriah, sidestepping a bunk. "Whatever it is, I'm in.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Underwear, Bunk, Insurgent

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

- Bill Bryson

source: Bill Bryson (2010). “A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike”, p.104, Random House

topic: Travel, Fascination, Bunk, Incontinence, Mattresses

On the road, in my bunk, I sleep better than I do anywhere else in the world.

- Kenny Chesney

topic: Sleep, World, Bunk

Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.

- Larry McMurtry

source: Larry McMurtry (2010). “Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

topic: Passion, People, Bunk

sometimes it's better to bunk a class & enjoy with friends, coz today when I look back, marks never make me laugh memories do.

- Abdul Kalam

topic: Inspirational, Memories, Class, Bunk

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

- John Green

topic: Love, Dream, Lying, Looking For Alaska Book, Drizzle

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Spring Cleaning, Chores

The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Prayer, Law, Perfect, Theism, Daily Atheist

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

- Henry Ford

topic: Physical Exercise, Bunk

I do it for the love. Bunk bed flow, always one level above.

- Drake

source: Song: The Winner

topic: Love, Humble, Bed, Self Perception, Bunk

Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It’s ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.

- Chetan Bhagat

source: Chetan Bhagat's speech given at the orientation program for the new batch of MBA students, www.chetanbhagat.com. July 24, 2008.

topic: Falling In Love, Taken, Weekend, Goofs, Symbiosis

Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.

- Eminem

topic: Self, Age, Twelve, Bunk

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

- Henry Ford

topic: Life, Live For Today, Dams, Model T, Great History

I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

- Henry Ford

source: Interview with Charles N. Wheeler in 'Chicago Tribune' 25 May 1916

topic: Bunk

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

- Michael Vick

topic: Football, Writing, Home, Football Field, Bunk

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

- Raymond Chandler

topic: Years, Common Sense, Fifty, Bunk

As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their homes, cooked their meals and so on. So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk.

- Henry Ford

topic: History Books, Bunk

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

- Will Rogers

topic: Country, Political, Politics, Bunk

As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness. I covered it with being funny and tough, but it's hard to be tough when you're making your cot in your bunk over soaking wet sheets and acting like nobody can smell anything.

- Sarah Silverman

topic: Summer, Kids, Smell, Being Funny, Bunk

Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic society learn to separate good science from bunk. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity, as it affects where large portions of our tax money go, and in some cases even whether people’s lives are lost as a result of nonsense.

- Massimo Pigliucci

topic: People, Intellectual, Curiosity, Good Science, Intellectual Curiosity

I remember the first time Bill Fichtner and I had a scene together. I've seen him in a few movies, from Armageddon to The Perfect Storm and Contact, and suddenly he's on a bunk bed and I'm on a bunk bed and we're doing this scene together. That was a real 'pinch me' moment.

- Chris Vance

topic: Real, Perfect, Storm, Armageddon, Perfect Storm

... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.

- Michael Shermer

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Offering, Bunk

I'm a double bagger. Not only does my husband put a bag over my face when we're making love, but he also puts a bag over his head in case mine falls off.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Husband, Fall, Making Love, Bagger, Bunk

Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."

- Paul Gauguin

topic: Art, Thinking, Self, Proficiency, Bunk

Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.

- Arthur Guiterman

source: Arthur Guiterman, “The Traveler”

topic: Mean, Night, Maps, Bunk

All these people who think they deserve free health care, or a job, or a plasma screen TV, simply because they radiate heat at 98.6 degrees, or because they were born in a certain place, or because they have a certain skin color - it's all bunk. There's no such thing as a 'just' wage. There's only what you earn.

- Doug Casey

source: "Doug Casey on Judging Justices". Interview with Louis James, www.caseyresearch.com. July 22, 2009.

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Skin Color, Plasma, Bunk

She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.

- Philip Pullman

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Jobs, Bunk

You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.

- Billy Wilder

source: "Fictional character: "Bim" Nolan". "The Lost Weekend", 1945.

topic: Animal, Turkeys, Elephants, Straw Hats, Keyholes

There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.

- Dave Barry

topic: Cat, Fur, Rotting, Stools, Bunk

A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.

- William Powell

source: "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, "Postscript", p. 157, 1971.

topic: Eye, Night, Light, Sleepless Nights, Mattresses

Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Doctors, Ladders, Amy, Bunk, Bunk Beds

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

- John Fante

topic: Self, Bullshit, Intellectual, Literary Criticism, Bunk

When I was nine or 10, I had jumped off of a bunk bed and shattered and dislocated my shoulder. That was on the same arm as the cast was on, which I didn't really put together until I was really starting to feel a little uncomfortable in my shoulder area, and then I was like, "Oh, this cast is on that arm. That's what that is about."

- Ashley Rickards

source: "Ashley Rickards Exclusive Interview AWKWARD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 19, 2011.

topic: Together, Bed, Arms, Bunk, Bunk Beds

These are the moments. These are the moments where you realize love is everywhere if you look closely. When you realize happiness isn't next weekend, and it's not last week, it's right now. That was one of the best nights of my life. It felt good to know purpose. I lay in my bunk and I think of all the stories I'm in. I think about all the stories that are in my story. I think about all the stories that are left to be written. And it might be my favorite book yet.

- Camila Cabello

topic: Book, Weekend, Night, Best Night, Best Night Of My Life

The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.

- Mary Barnett Gilson

topic: Education, Truth, Mean, Hang Over, Educating The Young

To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Marriage, Divorce, Thinking, Divorce Rates, Lassie

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

- Salman Rushdie

source: Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

topic: Stars, Over You, Lucky, One Minute, Lucky Star

Take Milton Friedman, he sits at his desk pontificating about such bunk as the monetary system being the answer to our problems. The monetary system is a legal contrivance. Property, not money, is real wealth. It's physical, not legal.

- Louis O. Kelso

topic: Real, Answers, Politics, Real Wealth, Bunk

...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

- R. A. Salvatore

topic: Heart, Three, Daggers, Drizzt, Bunk

I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.

- Patti Smith

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Roaming Around, Dawn, World, Poland, Bunk

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Love, Pain, Husband, Love My Husband, Bagger

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

- Henry Ford

topic: Bunk

It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Love, Life, Sex, Funny Sex, Great Sex

Before we make love, my husband takes a pain killer.

- Joan Rivers

source: "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by R. Byrne, 1987.

topic: Love, Pain, Husband, Love My Husband, Bunk

I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of my books with a wedge...Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.

- Alex Haley

topic: Book, Reading, Thinking, Bunk

My mother told me 'man on top, woman underneath.' For years my husband & I slept in bunk beds.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Mother, Husband, Men, Bunk, Bunk Beds

I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were sent to work the farms during the war. The metal beds with their thin mattresses could easily be used as a jungle gym and I loved them.

- David Mixner

source: "Turkey Hollow Almanac: Summer Memories" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2008.

topic: Dad, War, Bed, Bunk, Bunk Beds