Drawingroom Quotes

#1. The furniture would have missed you?
Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and tables don't go to the grave so soon. Every time I take the soft cloth to that stuff in the drawingroom, I could say, 'Well, you know a bit more'.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

Lady Gregory

#3. There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

Salma Hayek

#4. In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.

Tucker Elliot

#5. And, most important of all," added the Mathemagician, "here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you."
He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil which, except for the size, was much like his own.

Norton Juster

#6. Honey, that man would do anything to keep you. Lie, steal, cheat, kill, clean up after himself, and do laundry.

Alisa Sheckley

#7. I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.

Barbra Streisand

#8. You got a gun, you don't have to work out.

Chris Rock

#9. Younger guys now are all working out, and you find that if everyone's doing it and you're not doing it, you're going to be left behind.

Tiger Woods

#10. There can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

M.F.K. Fisher

#11. A strong ant is better than a weak lion.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

Garrett Fort

#13. Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.

Julie Berry