#living room

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#comes #furnish #helps #leisure #listen

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#come #current #current events #events #friends

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#bad #bad taste #buildings #color #community

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#business #company #dollar #due #home

I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#end #everything #had #i #independents

The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching. ↗

— Damon Hill

#beamed #been #being #children #drivers

I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#girl #i #interested #like #living

I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#animal #around #caged #come #down

It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#after #asking #doing #fine #i

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. ↗

— David Frost

#home #invention #living #living room #people