“If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?” IfsShouldStillsShowsRoomsDressesCastsKitchenRestaurantsBroadwayRehearsalDiningDining RoomsBroadway ShowsPreview Author:Marian Burros
“Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the meeting is sufficient to paralyze conversation. The women invariably herd together at one part of the room, and the men at the other ... The gentlemen spit, talk of elections and the price of produce, and spit again. The ladies look at each other's dresses till they know every pin by heart.” KnowsMenLooksHeartMayPersonsTogetherFormRoomsTalentProduceHe ManShapesConversationElectionDressesMeetingsGentlemanSufficientArrangementsPinsHerdsSpitAmerican Society Author:Frances Trollope
“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.” MadeCertainSongHouseStrongRoomsBeautyGraceTreePleaseTasteStandardsBirdRiversWeakRelationDressesProseVersesDiscourseGood Taste Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
“It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.” ShouldLooksValuesRoomsStreetsFashionCarStyleJudgingDressesDrawingInherentCrucible Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
“It's so normal for a teenager to dress in black -- and be real unhappy and stay in your room and say sarcastic things. How could something so normal be considered morbid?” RealBlackRoomsNormalDressesUnhappyTeenagerSarcasticBeing RealMorbidYour Room Author:Christina Ricci