Rooms Quotes - Page 4

• Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome.
  [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]

  George Herbert

  Fire, Water, Soldier

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• People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.

  Dennis Rainey

  People, Mosquitoes, Bother

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• I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.

  Tom Odell

  Fashion, Clothes, America

  "NYFW: At the Burberry Acoustic Party, Tom Odell Swears He's Not Taylor Swift". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 10, 2013.

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• One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Memories, Father, White

  "Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2004.

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• I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind. I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do or who I'm supposed to be. I don't want to be anything other than me.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Tired, Thinking, Mind

  Song: I Don't Want To Be, Album: Chariot, 2003

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• Sleep well in your room all three together... don't worry about me being alone.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Sleep, Worry, Together

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• Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

  Jay Bell

  Ghost, Used, Couches

  Jay Bell (2012). “Something Like Winter (m/m romance)”, p.171, Jay Bell

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• I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense.

  Jacob Latimore

  Wrinkles, Order, Intense

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• The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?

  Don Feder

  Running, War, Dirty

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• My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

  Poppy Delevingne

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "10 Questions: Poppy Delevingne" by Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. October 9, 2012.

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• Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.

  Jon Katz

  Dog, Kids, Saws

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• There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

  Al Stewart

  Rocks, Historical, World

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• It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

  Douglas Adams

  Trying, Break, Messy

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• I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

  Garry Hynes

  New York, Ideas, Done

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• A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Doubt, Progress, Scientist

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• The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.

  Don Rickles

  Sky, Transformation, Unbelievable

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• I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

  Lucy Hawking

  Children, My Family, Ballerina

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• ...in your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot, I've never found anybody who's chickenshit. The way to eliminate fear is to do what you're most afraid of.

  Jerry Rubin

  Want, Way, Scared

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.

  Edward M. Lerner

  Book, Energy, Needs

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• Roy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door

  Garrison Keillor

  Doors, Laughing, Stuff

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• I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

  Samantha Shannon

  Teenager, Rebellious, Your Room

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• Inspiration,' the false artist says,'it just comes to me.' And it shows.His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room -- morning, evening, midnight, noon. For myself, I have to search for it. The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Morning, Wall, Inspiration

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• What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents.

  Adrian Young

  Dad, Parent, Want

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• I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

  P. L. Travers

  World, My Own

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• Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

  Christine McVie

  Writing, Floating, Honest

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