Salons Quotes - Page 2

• I don't know why a beauty salon would have a cop's hat and the curling irons are not deadly unless they're still plugged in and they're hot. So I'm not quite sure about that. But I don't know who remembers anymore that you can ignite spray cans, plus there aren't really any spray cans anymore 'cause that was destroying the ozone layer. So I'm - actually, I'll have to go with they chased him with the curling irons.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ozone, Iron, Hot

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Cosmos Expert Neil deGrasse Tyson On Cosmetology". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. October 24, 2015.

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• What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration society, not a debating society, not a repair shop, not a fight club or a soap box. It's a place to have a conversation about a story.

  John Dufresne

  Teaching, Writing, Fighting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I didn't have to worry about money, I would be doing the same thing I'm doing now. Additionally, I would maintain other creative outlets -- glassblowing and woodworking. I would operate a salon-format venue geared towards deviation; a destabilization of the audience/rock star dynamic.

  Jean Smith

  Stars, Rocks, Worry

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• What finally prompted me to lose weight was a view of myself in a hairdresser's full-length mirror when I was seated and wearing one of the salon's floral print robes and realized that I looked like a slipcovered club chair.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Mirrors, Views, Weight

  Mimi Sheraton (2004). “Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life”, Large Print Press

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• Anybody who is anybody seems to be getting a lift - by plastic surgery these days. It's the new world wide craze that combines the satisfactions of psychoanalysis, massage, and a trip to the beauty salon.

  Eugenia Sheppard

  World, Satisfaction, Massage

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• For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Cities, World

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• My mum doesn't enjoy sometimes listening to me tell staff off, and I say to my mum, it's a kitchen, not a hair-dressing salon.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Hair, Listening, Kitchen

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

  Wesley Morris

  Hair, Land, Differences

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• What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Simplicity, Weakness, Reform

  Bernard Bailyn (1992). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Looks, Politics, Als

  "Democratic Suicide" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.cbsnews.com. May 6, 2005.

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• There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.

  Harlan Ellison

  Art, Amazon, Midst

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• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  Sally Phillips

  Hair, Blonde, Red

  "A funny five minutes with Sally Phillips". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• Products are a must - full stop. I'm sorry to say it, but that bob won't look so sleek on its own - you need a little help. It doesn't have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.

  Beth Ditto

  Sorry, Needs, Looks

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2008.

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• I know my little 'dirty drawings' are never going to hang in the main salons of the Louvre, but it would be nice if - I would like to say 'when,' but I better say 'if' - our world learns to accept all the different ways of loving. Then maybe I could have a place in one of the smaller side rooms.

  Tom of Finland

  Nice, Dirty, Our World

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• Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

  Claude Monet

  Garden, Blue, Chocolate

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• With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• There is no way I’m going out in public like this!” It seemed while I was being tormented at the salon, Bones had been out shopping. I didn’t ask where he got the money from, images of old folks with their necks bleeding and their wallets missing dancing in my head. There were boots, earrings, push-up bras, skirts, and something he swore to me were dresses but only looked like pieces of dresses.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Shopping, Dancing, Missing

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• Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003

  Anne Lamott

  Feet, Joy, April

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• Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.

  Amanda Peet

  Spinning, Tanning, Figures

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• Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe." Salon April 25, 2003

  Anne Lamott

  Feet, April, Breathe

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• Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Islands, Champagne

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• Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Mean, Past

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• For years now I have run a kitchen-sink punk salon in my house, called Salon du Gay. In the early days, people would pay for a riot grrrl bob or a passable bleach job with a mixtape, $3 or a selection of baked goods - whichever they could afford. More recently though, with Gossip doing well, I've performed these punk hair transformations for free.

  Beth Ditto

  Running, Jobs, Gay

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2008.

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• I love going to the hair salon. I'm Spanish. I think it's more of a Latina thing to go to the hair salon.

  Paz de la Huerta

  Thinking, Hair, Latina

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• Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve the nation, is considered boorish in Manhattan salons.

  Ann Coulter

  Military, Army, Self

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