Rooms Quotes - Page 31

• I think minimalism is something I just got attracted to just in general because I like the empty space, if you think about it, like there's a lot of empty space. So there are sounds there, there are chords, like coordinates, to sort of tell you where the emotion is going, but then it leaves so much room for the voice to do other things.

  Pharrell Williams

  Thinking, Voice, Space

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or a situation that sounds compelling - and then you just feel your way around until you find the edges of your story. It's like going into a dark room... you stumble around until you find the walls and then inch your way to the light switch.

  Dan Chaon

  Wall, Writing, Character

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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• I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. I thought, there's no reason to go to different parts of our world, because you can write them. You can stay home, stay in a little room, and imagine all these worlds. And I wanted to do that. Why did I want to do that, I'm not sure if I can tell.

  Vito Acconci

  Home, Writing, Our World

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime.

  Tink

  Passion, Heart, And Love

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• I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Girl, Past, Thinking

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• An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.

  Charlotte Moss

  Empty Rooms, Waiting, Stories

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• Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn't have many close connections left. I was physically isolated and disconnected from the world. Sometimes I felt lonely in a crowded room. This kind of loneliness pierced my soul and ached to the core. I not only felt disconnected from the world, but I also felt like no one ever loved me. Intellectually, I knew that people did, but I still felt that way.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Lonely, Loneliness, Long

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• Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Real, Recovery, Real Me

  Jenni Schaefer (2003). “Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too”, p.22, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Touching hands are not like pharmaceuticals or scalpels. They are like flashlights in a darkened room. The medicine they administer is self-awareness. And for many of our painful conditions, this is the aid that is most urgently needed.

  Deane Juhan

  Self, Hands, Medicine

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• I don't [believe in God]. I have a problem with religion or anything else that says, 'We have all the answers,' because there's no such thing as 'the answers.' We're complex. We change our minds on issues all the time. Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Believe, Issues, Mind

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• Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

  Jim Elliot

  Soul, Growth, Environment

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• Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms.

  Tom Izzo

  Lockers, Championship, Locker Room

  Tom Izzo during Big Ten Conference Men's Media Days, www.asapsports.com. October 25, 2012.

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• I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pride, Darkness, Solitude

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 17, 1975.

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• When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was a map of myself. Invisible to others, but held in the rug, were all the places I had stayed - for a few weeks, for a few months. On the first night anywhere new I liked to lie in bed and look at the rug to remind myself that I had what I needed even though what I had was so little. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Home, Night

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• All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Spirit, Makers

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• My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

  Omar Sharif

  Philosophy, Prepared

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• 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?

  Christina Ricci

  Sarcastic, Real, Teenager

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• A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doors, Feet, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.49, Graphic Arts Books

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• I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

  George Eliot

  Wall, Pain, Lying

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.259, Penguin

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• People who love life have charisma because they fill the room with positive energy.

  John C. Maxwell

  Love Life, People, Positive Energy

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• There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• See, that's the thing about L.A.- When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.

  Kris Kidd

  Lonely, Art, People

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• We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

  Susan Meissner

  Pages, Moved, Lays

  Susan Meissner (2010). “The Shape of Mercy: A Novel”, p.153, WaterBrook

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• The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or not, it is not possible to create an ideal society with imperfect people. And this, unfortunately, we are. So the main purpose for Nazism as well as for Communism was to create a 'new person'. In order to make room for it, the world needed to be rid of its non-perfect models.

  Mart Laar

  Order, People, Perfect

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• In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.

  John Nichol

  Heart, Enough, Slaughterhouses

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