Parlor Quotes - Page 2

• What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets.

  Ernestine Rose

  Fashion, Rights, Law

  "The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose, Syracuse". Book by Carol A. Kolmerten (p.49), 1999.

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• I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

  Tom Hardy

  Drama, Theatre, Chekhov

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• About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People still died at home, among relatives and friends, often in the care of a family physician. Death was still to be seen sitting in the parlor, hanging in a butcher shop, sometimes lying in the street.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Death, Lying, Home

  "Selling Death" by Lewis Lapham, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Sunset, Sleep

  Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”

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• There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

  Charles Fort

  World, Cards, Parlor Games

  Charles Fort (2014). “New Lands”, p.60, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.

  Damon Runyon

  Success, Boys, Car

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• A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

  George Sutherland

  Pigs, Nuisance, May

  Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365, (388), 1926.

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• Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Clothes, Ties, People

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• For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.

  Vera Nazarian

  Daughter, Order, Imagination

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• I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something to the person next to him, who repeats it not very distinctly to the next person, and so on until, by the time the last person hears it, it comes out completely transformed. Of course, as he explained to me, the meaning in Finnegans Wake is obscure because it is a 'nightpiece.' I think, too, that, like the author's sight, the work is often blurred.

  Sylvia Beach

  Thinking, Games, Sight

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• Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such a strange history. But that wasn't the context that I learned it in, so the inherent friction between that history and the more humanist folk-y history wasn't in my conscience at all.

  Joanna Newsom

  Daughter, Play, Privilege

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

  Marge Piercy

  Moving, Fire, Dust

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.106, Knopf

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• There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties.

  Andy Rooney

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.261, PublicAffairs

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• Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Queens, Ignorant, Would Be

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• Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

  Terence McKenna

  Games, Miracle, Energy

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• Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies.

  Paul Robeson

  Summer, Sweet, Morning

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and (at) the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this.

  Feist

  Beautiful, Sunshine, Thinking

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• It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.

  Triple H

  Couple, Games, Mind

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• One of my favorite facts about Jason [Benjamin] is that he collects shirts from tattoo parlors. He has a bunch of tattoo parlor T-shirts, but no tattoos. And then he wears, like, vans and jeans. My boyfriend said he looks like a modern Bruce Springsteen, which is a pretty high compliment.

  Lena Dunham

  Tattoo, Jeans, My Boyfriend

  "Lena Dunham talks Suited: Fashion is a new way into [the LGBTQ] conversation". Interview with Dana Getz, www.ew.com. June 20, 2016.

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• What really takes me back is when I'm walking around the Lower East Side, because we went to so many places [there] - the bakery, a mannequin store, all these factories with mice running around. That also is very visceral and takes me back. Pool halls, tattoo parlors, all kinds of stuff like that.

  Jancee Dunn

  Tattoo, Running, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.

  Joanna Newsom

  Circles, Musical, Way

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Nice, Humor

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• Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Coffee, Mirrors

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• Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

  Dylan Thomas

  Horse, Sunday, Past

  Dylan Thomas, Ellen Raskin (2003). “A Child's Christmas in Wales”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or is to be found only in the demimonde of business, founding new ice cream parlors or "deep freeze subscription clubs".

  Paul A. Baran

  Past, Ice Cream, Entrepreneur

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 3, (p. 77), 1957.

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