Rooms Quotes - Page 24

• I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Baby, Brain

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• It's a new day! Let go of old issues, relationships, or apprehensions that are holding you back. Decide to move forward using the knowledge you've gained, from your failures and triumphs, while making room for new accomplishments .
  Cleaning isn't just good for your house, it's healthy for your mind. Adopt the attitude that you can and will achieve your dreams, because it's true. You have greatness within you!

  Les Brown

  Letting Go, Dream, Attitude

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• Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.

  Jeff Smith

  Mistake, Food, Dining

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• I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself.

  John Newton

  Christian, Masters, Duty

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• Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.

  Ken Thompson

  Thinking, Ibm

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• General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.

  John Locke

  Loss, Jewels, Care

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.559

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• I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

  Bruce Beresford

  Ideas, Long, Theatre

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• I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Thinking, Air

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.

  Andre Dubus

  Stars, Crazy, Distance

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• The most moving scene for me in 'Pride and Prejudice' is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy's sister from embarrassment and confusion, and as the music plays on, Darcy's look of gratitude becomes a look of love, which we see reciprocated in Elizabeth's eyes.

  Andrew Davies

  Gratitude, Moving, Eye

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• There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is not.

  Adam Ant

  Inspirational

  Song: Room At The Top

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• So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Long, Temptation, Littles

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.10

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• I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

  Kenneth Clark

  Reading, Museums, Spirit

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

  Julien Green

  Happiness, Dark, Drawing

  Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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• The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.

  Ben Folds

  Animal, Class, Piano

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• Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

  Jack London

  Life, Hands, Begging

  Jack London (2016). “The Sea-Wolf (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

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• On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.

  William Watson

  Guests, Host, Mines

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• The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.

  Peter Cook

  Eye, Ducks, Looks

  BBC British sketch comedy show "Not Only... But Also" ("At The Art Gallery", 1965), 1965-1970.

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• This vacation tip: If you see a gas station with a sign that says Clean Rest Rooms, it means one thing--the door is locked and no one can find the key.

  Pat Williams

  Mean, Vacation, Keys

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• In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.

  Paul Goodman

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 179), 1956.

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• In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.

  Robert Reed

  Couple, Cutting, Effort

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• It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.

  Lou Gehrig

  Yankees, Giving, Shadow

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• I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without a moment's asking of God's blessing. I never seal a letter without putting a word of prayer under the seal. I never take a letter from the post without a brief sending of my thoughts heavenward. I never change classes in the section room without a minute's petition on the cadets who go out and those who come in.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Prayer, War, Blessing

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• In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, House

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• Having sex with her is incredible. It's just like a concert. We throw Frisbees around the room. And when she wants more she lights a match.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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