Parlor Quotes

You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx,/ Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks./ From river to river you comb the town/ For a place to lay your family down. - Ogden Nash

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

You don't ever say, 'Where's the good place in town?' You want to ask somebody on the street, 'Where do you eat?' And then you're likely to find the great catfish parlor or barbecue place. - Michael Stern

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

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. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech. - Paul Robeson

Why is it a good idea? It's sort of the natural evolution of Colonial Downs... We now gain control of the track and the operation of the [off-track betting parlors]. Technically, under the contract, we had very little say. - Ian Stewart

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

When the Atkins Diet became a rage and people stopped eating carbohydrates, we didn't do something to protect pizza parlors. - Steve Ellis

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

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