Rooms Quotes - Page 23

• Whoever's job it was to keep the room clean was clearly not an overachiever.

  Steve Hamilton

  Jobs, Clean, Overachiever

  Steve Hamilton (2007). “Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery”, p.177, Macmillan

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• I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

  John Bright

  Art, Book, Giving

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• A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

  Thomas Campbell

  Men, Doors, Doe

  Thomas Campbell (2007). “My Big Toe: Awakening, Discovery, Inner Workings: A Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics”, p.769, Lightning Strike Books

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• The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.

  Eric Burns

  War, Heart, Destiny

  Eric Burns (1995). “The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader”

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• The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.

  Eric Burns

  Home, Technology, Irrelevance

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• If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

  Mary Garden

  Writing, Simple, Doors

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• The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

  Ed Parker

  Art, Believe, Humble

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• Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Faith, Fog

  "The Potting Shed". Play by Graham Greene, 1957.

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• The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

  Timothy Murphy

  Records, Paper, Medical

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• Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.

  William Morris

  Eye, Small Rooms, Broken

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• Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room

  Simon Hughes

  Doctors, Waiting Rooms, Atmosphere

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• Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature

  Herbert Simon

  Unique, Thinking, Ems

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• God has called us into a place of tenderness, when nobody is looking, when there are no great decisions to make, when it’s just him and me in a hotel room, with no one to pray for, no one to preach to. When it is just two people in a room, that’s where you learn. That’s where you learn his heartbeat. That’s where you learn the presence. That’s where you learn the voice. It’s in the moments when nobody is watching, nobody is evaluating how good you’re doing. When it is just you and him.

  Bill Johnson

  Two, Voice, People

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• Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room.

  Katie Davis

  Beautiful, Adoption, Redemption

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Like a lot of people in the computer industry, Keith Malinowski had spent his whole life being the smartest person in the room, and like most of his fellows the experience left him with a rather high opinion of his opinions.

  Rick Cook

  People, Keith, Opinion

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• Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Taken, Hospitality, Enough

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• Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it.

  Les Brown

  Successful, Games, Together

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• Whiles in the early Winter eve We pass amid the gathering night Some homestead that we had to leave Years past; and see its candles bright Shine in the room beside the door Where we were merry years agone But now must never enter more, As still the dark road drives us on. E'en so the world of men may turn At even of some hurried day And see the ancient glimmer burn Across the waste that hath no way; Then with that faint light in its eyes A while I bid it linger near And nurse in wavering memories The bitter-sweet of days that were.

  William Morris

  Sweet, Memories, Eye

  William Morris (2012). “The House of the Wolfings: A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you.

  John Mayer

  Next Day, Guitar, Ideas

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• It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

  James Thurber

  Home, Drawing, Alcohol

  1930 In the New Yorker, 2 Aug.

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• For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

  John Wesley

  Heart, Long, Sin

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons”, p.390

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• Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.

  Roger Miller

  Travel, Kings, Regret

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• I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

  Jim Morrison

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.

  Michelle Williams

  Wall, Home, Drawing

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

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• In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

  John Madden

  Oakland, Genius, Als

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