Parlor Quotes

77 quotes by 70 authors

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards. — Charles Fort
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… — Vera Nazarian
If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects… — Gail Collins
When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. — Snoop Dogg
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. — Bob Dylan
Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe. — Emily Mortimer
I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy… — Amy Poehler
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or… — Walt Whitman
The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque. — Ron Wyden
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable… — Dorothy Parker
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… — Betty Smith
I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. — Susanna Kaysen
Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading â€“ in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other… — Alice Hoffman
Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else. — Anna Godbersen
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… — Henry Rollins
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. — Zora Neale Hurston
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… — Sloane Crosley
Really, doesnÂ´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even… — Ernst Junger
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… — Don Roff
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… — Bob Dylan

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