Living Room Quotes - Page 11

• People feel like they know you when you're in their living room, weekly, for five years. But I always get uncomfortable when people know more about me than I know about them.

  Nina Dobrev

  Years, People, Rooms

  "Nylon loves Nina!". nylon.com. July 17, 2014.

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• In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal “girders” and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.

  Steven Chu

  Summer, Mother, Moving

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• No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that around on my hip pocket. That was not a thought until NASA initiated this whole exercise. So there's an influence that's not just spinoff.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Exercise, Radio, Rooms

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

  Geoff Nicholson

  Dog, Night, Journey

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• ...in your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot, I've never found anybody who's chickenshit. The way to eliminate fear is to do what you're most afraid of.

  Jerry Rubin

  Want, Way, Rooms

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• This is a pretty shitty flash mob. It's in my living room, only my family showed up, and they're just telling me to stop drinking.

  Megan Amram

  Drinking, Rooms, My Family

  Megan Amram @meganamram, twitter.com. February 2, 2012.

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• I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room, and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.

  Al Jarreau

  Summer, Brother, Night

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!

  Hines Ward

  Mom, Rooms, Knows

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• I met Keith Haring at SVA college where he was having an art show, later we had a group art show at the Mud Club in NYC. Keith owed me $50, so he gave me a large framed canvas with barking dogs that had large dicks. I painted over Keith's painting to paint flowers for my mom's living room.

  Steve Kaufman

  Mom, Dog, Art

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• Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Elephants, Rooms, Life After Death

  Dinesh D'Souza (2009). “Life After Death: The Evidence”, p.6, Regnery Publishing

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• I don't like to see teenage men wearing very tight jeans. The sight of an erection belongs in the privacy of the bedroom, living room, or kitchen floor.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Teenage, Men, Sight

  "Ruth Westheimer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2010.

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• I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.

  Ari Up

  Mother, Baby, Stars

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Realistically, there is a danger, of course, when you're going into someone's living room as the same guy every week. But I don't fear it because, I mean, there's really nothing I can do about it. I can try to combat it through the work, and maybe make sure I don't do Sheldon 2.0 in any other projects. But it's just really hard for me to find any negative side effects from this experience.

  Jim Parsons

  Mean, Guy, Trying

  "Emmys: Q&A With Lead Comedy Actor Nominee Jim Parsons". Deadline Hollywood Interview, deadline.com. August 3, 2010.

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• Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Doe, Looks

  Michael Crichton (2001). “Airframe”, p.336, Ballantine Books

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• Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

  Arthur Miller

  Girl, Blow, Intelligent

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to go inside Fred’s soul and play there.

  Dorianne Laux

  Play, People, Car

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• I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

  Diane Paulus

  Beautiful, Gold, Sitting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn't afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that.

  Nick Harkaway

  Retirement, Real, Love You

  Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.181, Random House

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• [Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

  Bernard Berenson

  House, Library, Rooms

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• The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with other family members in earshot - and healthy practice would simply sound too obnoxious, intrusive, repetitious and unmusical for others to hear without annoyance.

  William Westney

  Practice, Healthy, Sound

  William Westney (2003). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”

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• A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.

  Preston Sturges

  Girl, Dog, Baby

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

  David Alan Grier

  Dad, Hero, Kids

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• I was walking in a grocery store and someone jumped on my back - and I knew the second she yelled ‘It’s Emily Fields’, it was a fan. I guess being in someone’s living room once a week on the TV makes them feel a little TOO comfortable.

  Shay Mitchell

  Rooms, Fields, Tvs

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• There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Home, Thinking, People

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• I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.

  Julia Roberts

  Home, Thinking, Expression

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