The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul. — Terence Conran
The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla. — J. D. Salinger
My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard. — Geddy Lee
There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where nobody's going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion. — Ice Cube
You can find out a lot sitting in the barber's. — Dizzee Rascal
Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop. — Bernie Mac
I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room. — Jay McInerney
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. — Bob Dylan
Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at. — John Evelyn
In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room. — Louis Kahn
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. — Betty Smith
What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret. — Fred Ebb
When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. — Snoop Dogg
I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. — Susanna Kaysen
It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin. — Triple H
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. — John Dewey
See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor. — Anthony Quinn
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. — George Ade
The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque. — Ron Wyden
Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead. — Benjamin De Casseres
I went to a massage parlor, it was self service. — Rodney Dangerfield
Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor. — Groucho Marx
Parlor Image Quotes
Beauty Parlor Quotes
My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off. — Chic Murray
When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate. — Phyllis Diller
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the next chair and say, 'I'll have what she has.' That's all right for ordering at a restaurant - but not in a beauty parlor. — Virginia Graham
Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate. — Mignon McLaughlin
There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties. — Andy Rooney
Most people get an appointment at a beauty parlor... I was committed! — Phyllis Diller
Parlor Games Quotes
We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time. — Eugene Kennedy
You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches — Red Auerbach
There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards. — Charles Fort
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. — Dorothy Parker
Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy. — Terence McKenna
Parlour Quotes
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. — A. N. Wilson
People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. It’s boring to watch and boring to perform. But if you’re a bad pizza thrower who drops the dough or watches it stick to the ceiling, then we know something more about your character. — Mark Sutton
The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation. — Rex Hunt
Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose. — R. S. Thomas
The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk. — W. H. Auden
Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy. — Mary Howitt
I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing. — Gavin MacLeod
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour — Ellen Glasgow
My friends are coming up - they run this tattoo parlour out there and they're gonna ink me up with the tattoo I've been wanting since I was two, right here, upper arm. — Charlie Benante
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. — Walt Whitman
How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor? — Bill Hicks
I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger! — Angelina Jolie
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold. — Tryon Edwards
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51) — Saul Bellow
You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor. — Chris LeDoux
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor. — Christiaan Barnard
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. — Paul Robeson
Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture. — Jessica Mitford
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now. — Katherine Moennig
I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips. — Amy Poehler
Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was a "downer." And yet to be masturbated by an appealing masseuse, to be in the physical presence of a woman with whom there was some communication and understanding, if not love, was gratifying and fun. — Gay Talese
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done. — Gisele Bundchen
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. — Anne Rice
By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics. — Susanna Kaysen
I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed. — Carly Chaikin
Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . . — Betty Smith
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard. — George Sutherland
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. — Djuna Barnes
Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective. — George Bernard Shaw
I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument. — Joanna Newsom
The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people. — Emma Goldman
We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn. — Henry David Thoreau
Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat. — Damon Runyon
I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage. — Tom Hardy
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