“When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.” KnowsRoomsFantasyDoorsComfortLuxuryHotelLocksSecrecyHotel RoomsReassurance Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches.” PeopleKnowsMayDifferentLastsMovingCoursesHouseWishLevelsRoomsEnvironmentGreaterDoorsComfortAmbitionRichesEnormousSettlingGentlemanSurroundDifferent Levels Author:Chris Murray
“[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.” GivingDoePhilosophyDoorsMaterialsDependsComfortThrownContemptImmenseSkirtsSkepticEminence Book:Modes and Morals Source: Modes and Morals
“Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America!” KnowsBigsAmericaDealsDoorsWallComfortWheelsImmigrantsSpokesShoreSteelWireBig DealAutomobileNobody KnowsPuerto RicoRicoKnobsChromium Author:Stephen Sondheim
“The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national character.... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort--to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.--is the very climate which secures the highest civilization.” PeopleYearsCharacterHomePerfectDoorsMonthsIndustryComfortCivilizationRepublicanHighestIdealsLaborClimateSecureFuelEtcPermitClothingsShelterOhio Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“Of all the facts I daily live with, there's none more comforting than this; If I have two rooms, one dark, the other light, and I open the door between them, the dark room becomes lighter without the light one becoming darker. I know this is no headline, but it's a marvelous footnote; and comforts me in that.” IfsKnowsTwoFactsLightDarkRoomsDoorsBecomingComfortMarvelousComfortingHeadlinesLightersDark RoomFootnotes Author:Gerhard E Frost
“I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” PeopleThinkingMenBelieveGamesI BelieveStuffDoorsComfortInstinctDinnerChessOpeningThese DaysGentlemanBuyingGood ManChess GameOpening Doors Author:Anna Kendrick