Rooms Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

  Daphne Koller

  Teaching, School, College

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• Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Waiting Rooms, Waiting, Destination

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• Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.

  Simon Van Booy

  Reading, Way, Might

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• Upon its debut, The Room was a spectacular bomb, pulling in all of $1,800 during its initial two-week Los Angeles run. It wasn't until the last weekend of the film's short release that the seeds of its eventual cultural salvation were planted. While passing a movie theater, two young film students named Michael Rousselet and Scott Gairdner noticed a sign on the ticket booth that read: NO REFUNDS. Below the sign was this blurb from a review: “Watching this film is like getting stabbed in the head.” They were sold.

  Greg Sestero

  Running, Weekend, Two

  Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell (2014). “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams.

  Christine Caine

  Dream, Needs, Birth

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• It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten. “I would never have that horrible old couch in my room,” you say. But your own old couch is every bit as bad and you are not disgusted with its appearance; it is your friend, you see, and you remember it when it was new and smart. Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

  D.E. Stevenson

  Smart, Dirty, Long

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• The loving and much loved wife is satisfied with the love of her husband; his smile is her joy, she cares little for any other. So, if you have come to Christ, thy Maker is thine husband - His free love to you is all you need, and all you can care for - there is no cloud between you and God - there is no veil between you and the Father; you have access to Him who is the fountain of happiness - what have you to do any more with idols? Oh! If your heart swims in the rays of God's love, like a little mote swimming in the sunbeam, you will have no room in your heart for idols.

  Robert E. Murray

  Husband, Father, Heart

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• A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic
  feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.

  Susan Sontag

  Distance, Past, Fire

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.17, Macmillan

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• I think The Room is something magnetic, a certain magnetism in The Room that is related to human behavior, and that's why people relate to it.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Thinking, People, Behavior

  "The Room's producer/writer/director/lead actor/short-range tuxedo footballer Tommy Wiseau". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 26, 2009.

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• Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

  Donella Meadows

  Zoos, Needs, National Parks

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• Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

  Charles Dickens

  Mirrors, Shadow, Gone

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales”, p.323, Courier Corporation

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• Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Thinking, Circles

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.69

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• A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself up, in order that she might preserve that appearance of being taken by surprise which is so essential to the polite reception of visitors, awaited their coming with a smiling countenance.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Taken

  CHARLES DICKENS (1871). “THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY "BOZ".”, p.218

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• Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem.

  Keith Olbermann

  People, President, Actors

  Source: www.gq.com

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• In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mom, Children, Dad

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• The internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional “live audience” quickly conspire to create a “perfect storm” of perpetual bickering.

  Charlie Brooker

  Opportunity, Perfect, Storm

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.164, Faber & Faber

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• By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Letting Go, Moving, Emotional

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• I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Two, Numbers

  Walden ch. 6 (1854)

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• I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.

  Katie Aselton

  Thinking, Hard Times, Air

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sports, Football, Children

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