Parlor Quotes - Page 3

• The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Wine, Glasses, Gentleman

  4 Copy quote

• The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much. I think this is, in a weird way, part of the health care debate. It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money.

  Chris Rock

  Thinking, Hair, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.

  Mason Cooley

  Music, Clouds, Dancing

  4 Copy quote

• The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

  Emma Goldman

  People, Needs, Movement

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.117, 谷月社

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nerves, Degenerates, Language

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Addresses

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.105, Xist Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.

  Benjamin De Casseres

  Fame

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Jobs, People, Vote

  "Shock and Awe". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 2003.

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was this judgmental sense of what was good and what was bad in my father's words. You couldn't necessarily shut the people out who were not considered good. But on the other hand, as children we were told, you don't do those things, which means that you don't really mix with that crowd as much. You don't go to town on Saturday night and hang out and go to the beer parlors. Even though it was a dry county, there was plenty of moonshine and beer and liquor being brought in from other counties.

  David C. Driskell

  Children, Father, Mean

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hate, Women, Looks

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.42, BookBaby

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

  Graydon Carter

  Would Be, Deposits, Dens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Music, Keys

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.224, ReadHowYouWant.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the wrong way."

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Florida, Police

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Ice Cream, Nurse, Six

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.51, Vintage

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.

  Veronica Roth

  Tattoo, Brother, Revenge

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Heart, Mean, Thinking

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Squad, Needs

  Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.

  Don Roff

  Character, Writing, Heart

  4 Copy quote

• Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It speaks rather in his favor. This used to be much better understood.

  Ernst Junger

  Doubt, Saint, World

  31 Copy quote

• I do want to get married. It's a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos--you should wait until you come across something you want on your body for the rest of your life instead of just wandering into a tattoo parlor on some idle Sunday and saying, 'I feel like I should have one of these suckers by now. I'll take a thorny rose and a "MOM" anchor, please. No, not that one--the big one.

  Sloane Crosley

  Tattoo, Mom, Husband

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.120, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Spirit, Bedroom, Left

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.86, University of Illinois Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I stopped acting. I got tired of playing with you. Random violence and destruction Because my reason for living, my out, My excuse. What is your excuse? Destruction. Without hate, without fear, Without judgement. I am no better Than you. No-one knows this better Than I do. I just got tired of playing Parlor Games.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Tired, Arrows

  4 Copy quote

• Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

  Anna Godbersen

  Growing, Fifth Avenue, Minutes

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.

  Alice Hoffman

  Reading, Pages Turning, People

  Alice Hoffman (2005). “Blackbird House”, p.97, Alice Hoffman

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Wall, Flower, Book

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.19, Harper Collins

  6 Copy quote

  Show source