Living Room Quotes - Page 13

• You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.

  Iggy Pop

  Dark, Two, Tunes

  "Message from under the rock - musician Iggy Pop". Interview Magazine Interview, September 1999.

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• Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

  Pauly Shore

  Teenager, Party, School

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• To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.

  Harvey Milk

  Believe, Color, Cities

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• Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

  Chris Bangle

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention. If a sentence really has something of importance to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out. And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!

  Lewis Thomas

  Children, Writing, Jumping

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fall, Ceilings, Rooms

  "‘About Face’: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ Film Focuses On Aging Supermodels" by Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

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• When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you had a facelift?' Well, if you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fall, Views, Ceilings

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• For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?

  Clare B. Dunkle

  Long, People, Generations

  Clare B. Dunkle (2010). “The Sky Inside”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

  Meryl Streep

  Growing Up, Years, Adorable

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• Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

  Larry Wall

  Rooms, Privacy, Infatuation

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• To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the windy, feral outdoors into your living room.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Doors, Hawks, Rooms

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• colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, School, Dark

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.39, Penguin

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• The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

  Judith Jamison

  Moving, Dark, Light

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline over herself in the living room, with everyone there, and burned herself alive. Of course, if she hadn't done this, her father and brothers would probably have killed her anyway.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Girl, Suicide, Brother

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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