Living Room Quotes - Page 10

• I had a brain cancer specialist sit in my living room and tell me that he would never take radiation if he had a brain tumor. And I asked him, 'but, do you send people for radiation?' and he said, of course. 'I'd be drummed out of the hospital if I didn't.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Cancer, People, Brain

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• It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Night, Thinking, Looks

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• My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much.

  Catherine Hicks

  Christian, Home, Parent

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• We've turned off all the lights in the living room to make hand shadows. We've got this big flashlight aimed at the wall. I make the silhouette of my hand into a duck. Robin makes his into a rabbit. Now my duck kisses his rabbit And-POOF!- it turns into a turkey. And for some reason this strikes us as hysterically funny. But you probably had to be there.

  Sonya Sones

  Wall, Kissing, Light

  Sonya Sones (2013). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created. You know, I think I show a lot of promise," I say. Get dressed, you worthless thing.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Design, Promise

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• The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.

  Jen Lancaster

  Believe, Night, Dvds

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• I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed his hand. "And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love You, Hands, Two

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• I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up there, my record player. Going from my world upstairs out onto the street, I had to pass through this no-man's-land of the living room, you know, and out the front hall.

  David Bowie

  Book, Player, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most people would say they live with an internal angst that they can't always put their finger on. This is because the Internet has changed our very way of being in this world, compelling us to be perpetually "on" - from our cars to our computers, our tablets to our smartphones, our desks to our living rooms or dining tables, our churches to our libraries to our schools.

  Tricia Rhodes

  School, People, Car

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I think in television you have an ever-closer bond to the audience because they're inviting you into your living rooms and their bedrooms 16 hours a year. And they have that relationship with the characters and with the creators. And now, because of social media that's even a more significant connection.

  Gale Anne Hurd

  Character, Thinking, Social Media

  Source: deadline.com

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• I look at my kids, who were born under a Black president, who hop around the living room naked and joyful, mimicking Simone Biles, and just think, Damn, they got some amazing role models of Black excellence.

  Emily Raboteau

  Kids, Thinking, Role Models

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

  Howard Rheingold

  Eight, Talking, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• This new world of personal media - the Web, the Internet and et cetera - not only delivers the world to your living rooms, but everywhere. And we get to answer back. And we're expected to answer back.

  Paul Saffo

  Media, Answers, World

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

  Tori Amos

  Song, Writing, Play

  "Portrait of the artist: Tori Amos, musician". Interview with Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2010.

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• Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Retirement, Peace

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

  Abraham Verghese

  Meaningful, Book, Writing

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• At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Rooms, Firsts, Owners

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• Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.

  Lynne Truss

  Men, Giving, Answers

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• I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

  John Updike

  Reading, Life Is Too Short, Writing

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents." "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?

  Norton Juster

  Thinking, Boys, People

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• The notion of making the television - the very thing that we allow into our living room and our kid's bedroom - something that's potentially dangerous, to me, is just so incredibly delicious that I can't tell you.

  Rockne S. O'Bannon

  Kids, Television, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their living room and just hectoring at them all day long. But if you can create a space where people are caught up in something - whether it's a drama, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or science fiction - that's when people give over their minds and allow their emotions to flow.

  John Ridley

  Drama, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Technology changes the medium. I grew up on watching a box in my living room that made my parents happy. After something is gone, the dust will settle and I'll see what's next.

  Dan Harmon

  Technology, Dust, Parent

  "Dan Harmon Talks RICK AND MORTY, Working for Adult Swim, Animation vs Live-Action, COMMUNITY, and Much More". Press Tour Interview, collider.com. July 27, 2013.

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• Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.

  Red Skelton

  Character, Television, Rooms

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• In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Distance, America, Rooms

  Gary Shteyngart (2014). “Little Failure: A Memoir”, p.108, Random House

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