Quotes About Parlor

He could cloak a mind and fool another into thinking him invisible. A parlor trick, but one he disdained to use as she glided through the chamber sprinkled with stars against void. The stars were like Eva. They shimmered with a luminous brilliance, but couldn't see their own magnificence.

It is from the ranks of the neo-intellectuals that we develop our parlor socialists, our "modernists" in poetry and letters, and those arm-chair anarchists who have theoretical explanations for every circumstance of living. The Mercurial person must take careful stock of himself and make sure that he contributes nothing to the inanities of the day.

I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.

When Bruno came back with a thick folder in his hand, Paul was standing in the small parlor, busy examining an animal sculpture standing on a windowsill. The animal, whose musculature was minutely reproduced, head turned back. It seemed worried, maybe it had heard something behind it, sensed the presence of a predator. It must be a goat, or maybe a deer or a hind, he didn't know much about animals.

Some primal termite knocked on wood; and tasted it, and found it good. That is why your Cousin May fell through the parlor floor today.

Various pieces of huge dark furniture constricted the passage, and the place smelled of boiled fish. I was shown into the parlor, where the gloom of that overcast day was filtered through windows curtained in dingy lace.