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For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. -- George Ade
The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque. -- Ron Wyden
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
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. -- Betty Smith
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
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now. -- Katherine Moennig
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
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
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
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor. -- Christiaan Barnard
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 Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips. -- Amy Poehler
But always and sometimes questioning the old modes And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor, Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now, Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over. -- John Ashbery
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done. -- Gisele Bundchen
I went to a massage parlor, it was self service. -- Rodney Dangerfield
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. -- John Dewey
It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin. -- Triple H
When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate. -- Phyllis Diller
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. -- Walt Whitman
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
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold. -- Tryon Edwards
Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe. -- Emily Mortimer
For $60, I once bought a neck massage at a 'massage parlor' that advertised in 'The Washington Post.' -- Gene Weingarten
Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings. -- Robert Dallek
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
I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful - they use nice paper. -- MaryJanice Davidson
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
The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much. -- Chris Rock
I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed. -- Carly Chaikin
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 you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk. -- Gail Collins
When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had this old Dixieland band play, and I just loved Louis Armstrong and the sound of his voice, and I got up there with the band and started singing Louis Armstrong songs when I was a kid. I have no idea why, but I did it and I loved it. -- Thomas Gibson
Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead. -- Benjamin De Casseres
Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat. -- Damon Runyon
A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music. -- Ramon Gomez de la Serna
See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor. -- Anthony Quinn
Most people get an appointment at a beauty parlor... I was committed! -- Phyllis Diller
I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. -- Susanna Kaysen
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. -- Zora Neale Hurston
The only thing they can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license. -- John Wayne Gacy
Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor. -- Groucho Marx
I was just thrown out of the barista parlor. Came to close to the Slayer. Amazing place! -- Andrew Zimmern
There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards. -- Charles Fort
Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else. -- Anna Godbersen
Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy. -- Terence McKenna
The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people. -- Emma Goldman
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
My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off. -- Chic Murray
To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him. -- Charles Spurgeon
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard. -- George Sutherland
I was always told to be a cook in the kitchen, a lady in the parlor and a wh--e in the bedroom. -- Melissa Gorga
Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore. -- Natalie Goldberg
The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud. -- Mason Cooley
And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once. -- Herman Melville
Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today. -- Ogden Nash
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience. -- Ambrose Bierce
When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene. -- John Paul Stevens
The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the wrong way." -- George Carlin
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

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