Chamber Quotes

• What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

  J. K. Rowling

  Exactly Is, Ducks, Muggles

  22 Copy quote

• There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.

  Angela Carter

  Acts Of Love, Resemblance

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never listen to music when I'm writing.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Chamber Music, Choral Music

  5 Copy quote

• Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Faith, God

  "Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes".

  118 Copy quote

  Show source

• Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Doe, Fit

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.61, Discovery House

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Faith, Christianity

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “Faith: A Holy Walk”, p.37, Discovery House

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

  Henry James

  Experience, Spiders, Tissues

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Chamber of Reflection off of Salad Days]I think it's probably that one. There's no guitar on that song, I've never recorded a song with absolutely no guitar, which is interesting. The idea behind it, well it's a Free Mason reference because before they become Free Mason's they had to go into this room called the Chamber of Reflection where they think about the life they brought with them, the life they've lived up until this point and all their wrong and right doings. And that's basically what I did with this album.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Reflection, Thinking

  Source: www.quipmag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Writing, Rocks, Old And New

  3 Copy quote

• In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.

  Edward Young

  Ocean, Sleep, Water

  Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.159

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• The man running toward me is not a man, he is a boy. A shaggy-haired boy with a crease between his eyebrows. Will. Dull-eyed and mindless, but still Will. He stops running and mirrors me, his feet planted and his gun up. In an instant, I see his finger poised over the trigger and hear the bullet slide into the chamber, and I fire. My eyes squeezed shut. Can't breathe. The bullet hit him in the head. I know because that's where I aimed it.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Eye, Gun

  3 Copy quote

• The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

  Edward Young

  Life, Fate, Men

  Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.34

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Iraq, Troops, Withdrawal

  15 Copy quote

• I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my heart leapt at the sight – row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first?

  Keith Donohue

  Book, Heart, Cities

  Keith Donohue (2011). “The Stolen Child”, p.88, Random House

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Food, Drinking, Beer

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Struggle, Fighting

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition. (Written in 1949, 22 years before the World Trade Center was completed.)

  E. B. White

  New York, Islands, Years

  Here Is New York (1949)

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.

  Umberto Eco

  Beautiful, Writing, Devil

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Lying, Blood

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.70, Infobase Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Favour, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in, come in,' the Prince said gently. 'Maybe we can help you.' She sat down in the same chair as before. 'All right, I'll close my eyes and listen; read to me.' Westley, my passion, my sweet, my only my own. Come back, come back. I shall kill myself otherwise. Yours in torment, Buttercup.' She looked at Humperdinck. 'Well? Do you think I'm throwing myself at him?

  William Goldman

  Sweet, Passion, Eye

  6 Copy quote

• Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, Cost, May

  3 Copy quote

• 'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Solitude, Guests

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.522, Jazzybee Verlag

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Boys, Men

  173 Copy quote