Famous quotes containing the words drawing and/or room:
“In the drawing room [of the Queens palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupids foot between Venuss thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when Im telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.”
—Linda Ellerbee (b. 1932)
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