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What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed. -- Brooke Shields
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. -- Gordon Sinclair
It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies. -- Rush Limbaugh
Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. -- Wyndham Lewis
Iran has basically propped up Assad, who has waged an absolute war of horror against the Syrian people. And he has done anything he could to stay in power with the full support of the Iranians and including Iranian troops and Hezbollah from Lebanon, which are an Iranian proxy. -- Hillary Clinton
Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners. -- Jeff Goodell
I grew up, really, in the days before air conditioning. So I can remember what it was like to be really hot, for instance, and I can remember what it was like when your barber shop and your local stores weren't air conditioned, so it was hot when you went in them and they propped the doors open. -- Bill Bryson
I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America. -- Carl Sandburg
Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold. -- Edgar Lee Masters
But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow. -- Billy Collins
The Democrat Party loved the Soviet Union! The Democrat Party in the eighties and the seventies propped up the Soviet Union. -- Rush Limbaugh
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block? -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books. -- Bill Watterson
But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions -- Ellen Hopkins
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there"¦the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted. -- Joe Haldeman
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning." -- Simone de Beauvoir
I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers." Aly propped her chin on her hand. "So does manure," she observed. -- Tamora Pierce
I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered. -- Robert Benchley
Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress. -- Charles Dickens
I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store. The figures around me weren't people, but shop dummies, painted to resemble people and propped up in attitudes counterfeiting life. -- Sylvia Plath

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