#parlor

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#before #beginning #best #door #dressing

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

#buildings #drifting #existed #imagine #kind

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time. ↗

— Eugene Kennedy

#disaster #future #game #growth #industry

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#betting #federal #grotesque #idea #parlor

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. ↗

— Anne Rice

#double #flowers #funeral #house #i

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#cafe #find #get #habit #hard

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#beauty #end #like #los #los angeles

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

#dramas #i #into #parlor #shakespeare

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. ↗

— George Ade

#life #parlor #saver #use #vague

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#cream #i #ice #ice cream #longer