Rooms Quotes - Page 17

• You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kitchen, Dining, Eating

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Contrary to popular belief, prosperity is an emotional state that has little to do with your wealth or the state of the economy. You can feel more prosperous in a one-room cottage than most wealthy people feel in a twenty-room mansion. Misers will hoard a lot of money and spendthrifts will spend whatever they have - you don't have to do either to feel prosperous. You may have to give up your secure, high-paying corporate job, however - and grow spiritually in the process.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Jobs, Giving Up, Emotional

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• The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Sex, Women

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• Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.

  Red Smith

  World, Patterns, Normal

  Red Smith (1983). “The Red Smith reader”, Vintage

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• We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.

  Joanna Macy

  Grief, Heart, Compassion

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• Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.

  Arthur Helps

  Beautiful, Kindness, Firefly

  Sir Arthur Helps (1859). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourses Thereon. A New Series”, p.94

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• Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Cities, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.542, Library of America

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• You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Order, Poetry

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• It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Drawing, Judging

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• Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves being and remaining oneself and at the same time admitting and transforming into oneself the reality of the world. No other material thing can be present in the space occupied by a house, a tree, or a fountain pen. But where there is mind, the totality of things has room; it is "possible that in a single being the comprehensiveness of the whole universe may dwell.

  Josef Pieper

  Spiritual, Reality, Space

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• When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.

  Alice Cooper

  Running, Stars, Reading

  "Rock is on a roll with politics" by Warren Kinsella, September 12, 2004.

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• If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Music, Mean, Two

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• Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for entertainment? The need for a kind of drug? ..I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances and concentrates a person’s experience-and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer. That is the power of cinema: ‘stars’, story-lines and entertainment have nothing to do with it.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Stars, Thinking

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• You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

  Herman Melville

  Sea, Telling The Truth, Plenty

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.459, Northwestern University Press

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• As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

  Tim Crouch

  Light, Atoms, Actors

  "Death of The Author: how did my play fare in LA?" by Tim Crouch, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2011.

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• You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?

  Ethan Hawke

  Years, Next, Knows

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 12, 2012.

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• Have you ever noticed how some rooms exude a certain energy, warmth, and a harmony of spirit? If you have, then you have experienced the language of the home. A language softly spoken, and univerally understood.

  Charlotte Moss

  Home, Design, Energy

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• We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Horse, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• The ubiquitous and acutely conscious presence of our adolescents is a major problem, especially since much of their consciousnessseems to be focused on sexuality--ours and theirs. They expect us to ignore them if they are kissing their dates in the family room; but let us so much as wink at one another, and they whistle loudly.

  Augustus Napier

  Sex, Kissing, Problem

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• Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't see a lot of room for change in American policy.

  Bruce Riedel

  Change, Discovery, Nightmare

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• I don't know where "bro country" came from or what it really means, but a lot of those guys are my buddies and I ­support their music. Within ­country there are lots of styles: stone-cold country, like Brandy Clark, and there's Florida Georgia Line with what they do, which is completely different and bringing a whole new audience. There's room for everyone.

  Miranda Lambert

  Music, Country, Mean

  "ACM Queen Miranda Lambert Dishes on Her Good-Luck Charm for the Big Night and the Bro-Country Trend: 'There's Room for Everyone'". Interview with Chuck Arnold, www.billboard.com. April 13, 2015.

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• Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room

  Aftab Alam

  Hope, Dark, Light

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• I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.

  Richelle Mead

  Baby, Girlfriend, Lying

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.5, Penguin

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• The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and theres ongoing creative revelations. Yes, its really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

  Carlton Cuse

  Discovery, Ideas, Roots

  "Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse on the End (?) of Lost". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.vulture.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

  Aziz Ansari

  Elephants, Walks, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". "Parks and Recreation/ The Fight" (Season 3, Episode 13), 2011.

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