Living Room Quotes:

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

- Mary Schmich

source: Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

topic: Dance, Rooms, Living Room, Motivational Dance, Tap Dancers

When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

- William H. Masters

topic: Rooms, Bedroom, Living Room

When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.

- Liz Phair

topic: People, Rooms, Living Room, Escalating

Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!

- Hines Ward

topic: Mom, Rooms, Living Room

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Rooms, Living Room, Compounds

The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul.

- Terence Conran

topic: Soul, Ease, Rooms, Living Room

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Home, Humor, Living Room, Television And Radio

I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.

- Steven Amsterdam

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Writing, Looks, Rooms, Living Room

To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be a hostess and invite you in so that we can have a great time.

- Sheila E.

topic: Home, House, Rooms, Living Room, Hostesses

My favorite room in the house is the living room. We have two big couches, six recliners and over 20 pillows. It's a really comfortable place to hang out with my family.

- Cody Linley

topic: Two, House, Rooms, Living Room, Recliners

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

- Igor Stravinsky

topic: Relationship, Drama, Reading, Film Music, Living Room

It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film.

- Dennis Miller

topic: Home, Nuts, Tape, Living Room, Home Improvement

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Military, War, America, Living Room, Vietnam War

When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.

- Tim Cook

topic: Years, Rooms, Tvs, Living Room

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

- Lance Morrow

topic: Animal, Rights, Rooms, Living Room, Rattlesnakes

Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.

- Groucho Marx

topic: People, House, Watches, Living Room

The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

- Fernand Leger

source: Carolyn Lanchner, Fernand Léger, Jodi Hauptman, Matthew Affron (1998). “Fernand Léger: [Exposición] The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 15-May 12, 1998”, p.124, The Museum of Modern Art

topic: Beautiful, Wall, Museums, White Walls, Living Room

If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.

- Andrew Solomon

topic: Children, Angel, Giving, Living Room

It’s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it’s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it’s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.

- Orlando Jones

topic: Done, Rooms, Reactions, Living Room

There simply aren't any grand moments in life, and we surely don't live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. This is where the character of our life is set. This is where we live the life of faith.

- Paul David Tripp

topic: Live Life, Character, Rooms, Living Room, Hallways

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Christmas, World, Rooms, Humorous Christmas, Meaningful Christmas

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

- Jack Paar

topic: Kids, People, Interesting, Living Room

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

- Andy Warhol

source: "Andy Warhol: In His Own Words". Book by Mike Wrenn, 1991.

topic: Living Room Wall, Living Room, Electric Chair, Drapes, Room Wall

I didn't paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy's living room.

- Ralph Fasanella

topic: Guy, Rooms, Painting, Living Room

In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Rip, Clouds, Leaving, Living Room, Dazed

The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes in our chimney," explains Simone. And once we tried to smoke them out. We lit a fire, knowing they were there, but we hoped the smoke would cause them to scurry out the top and never come back. Instead, they caught on fire and came crashing down into our living room, all charred and in flames and running madly around until they dropped dead." Simone swallows some wine. "Love affairs are like that," she says. "They are all like that.

- Lorrie Moore

topic: Running, Wine, Fire, Living Room, Wine Love

All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking ***** in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.

- Michelle Alexander

source: Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.215, The New Press

topic: Mistake, Marijuana, Law, Speed Limits, Living Room

It Wasn't Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been A Violent Death, Perfect For Creating Ghosts.

- Patricia Briggs

topic: Blood, Creating, Perfect, Fae, Living Room

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

- Leslie Fiedler

topic: Light, August, Rooms, Living Room

Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as dry as the corner of a heated living room.

- Adam Rogers

topic: Thinking, Cities, Hot, Living Room

Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.

- Andrea Gibson

topic: Wall, Fists, Rooms, Living Room Wall, Living Room

Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero, and one look at him should establish the vanity angle." "Nash!" I really shouldn't have been surprised by the dig. But I was. "What?" He raised one brow at me in challenge. "It's okay to call me jealous, but not to call him vain?" "Awareness of one's obvious advantages doesn't imply vanity," Tod insisted calmly. Nash turned on him. "Does it imply narcissism?" Tod huffed. "This coming from the guy who owns more hair products than his girlfriend.

- Rachel Vincent

topic: Girlfriend, Brother, Hero, Living Room, Potato Chips

When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.

- Medardo Rosso

source: Quoted in Edmond Claris De l'impressionisme en sculpture, 'Medardo Rosso' (1902).

topic: People, Groups, Body, Living Room

Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Selfish, Silly, Fall, Pantry, Gansey

we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away

- Conor Oberst

topic: War, Noise, Rooms, Living Room

Lindsey [Buckingham] and I went up to Aspen and we went to somebody's incredible house and they had a piano and I had my guitar with me and I went in their living room, looking out over the incredible Aspen sky and I wrote 'Landslide.'

- Stevie Nicks

source: "Rumours Exposed: The Unauthorized Biography of Fleetwood Mac". Book by Leah Furman, 2003.

topic: Guitar, Sky, Piano, Landslides, Aspens

I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book—third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.

- Robin Sloan

source: Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Book, Reading, Wine, Living Room, Downloads

The people who make the greatest wines in the world, they love their dirt, they pick it up, they coddle it, they kiss it, they put it in a jar and it sits on their mantle in the living room, because they know. They know.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

topic: Wine, Kissing, People, Living Room

I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Drinking, Coffee, Moving, Living Room, Drinking Coffee

Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

- Clive Barnes

topic: Dance, Athletic, Rooms, Living Room

There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.

- Ilana Mercer

topic: Rights, May, Speech, Living Room

Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.

- Lily Cole

topic: Heart, Years, Acting, Living Room

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

- Judith Martin

topic: Honesty, Needs, Rooms, Living Room, Nothing But The Truth

I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you.

- Barack Obama

source: President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

topic: Powerful, Victory, Never Forget, Working Man, Des Moines

And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here. We went from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had was when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we just sat in the living room and just hugged each other. We thought we made it.

- Kevin Durant

source: Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

topic: Mom, Brother, Memories, Best Memories, Eighteen Years Old

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

source: "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

topic: Pride, Artist, Color, Living Room, Bad Taste

It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?

- Colman McCarthy

topic: Moving, Ocean, Caring, Moving Beyond, Living Room

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

topic: Sports, Children, Taken, Sunday Afternoons, Living Room

Teenagers don't know what love is. They have mixed-up ideas. They go for a drive and the boy runs out of gas and they smooch a little and the girl says she loves him. That isn't love. Love is when you are married twenty-five years, smooching in your living room and he runs out of gas and she says she still loves him. That's love.

- Norm Crosby

topic: Girl, Running, Best Love, Living Room

Dancing - however you do it, even if it's in your living room - is a great workout.

- Ciara

topic: Workout, Dancing, Rooms, Living Room, Great Workout

Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People say "I have no talent -- I can't dance or sing or paint or write poetry or play an instrument." More often than not the doors are not locked, just closed. One may turn the handle, open the door and pass through into a larger life space.

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Art, Writing, Doors, Locked Doors, Living Room