Rooms Quotes - Page 24

• If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

  Maya Angelou

  War, Mean, Long

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• I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.

  Jim Carrey

  Mirrors, Faces, Good Times

  "New Again: Jim Carrey". Interview with Betsy Borns, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 28, 2014.

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• If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.

  Jesse Jackson

  Airplane, Technology, Bully

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. February 21, 2007.

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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

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• Part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium. We almost always get it as written, and then, we throw some improvs in or some alternatives.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Character, Alternatives, Actors

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• If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Sexy, Real, Dark

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I don't have very much time to surf the net, because it's as though my boss has a tracking device on me. The instant I'm looking at a Chloe sweater on Shopbop, I'll get a call in my office with a PA asking: "Paul wants to know where you are and why you're not in the writers room, and if maybe you're online shopping."

  Mindy Kaling

  Shopping, Sweaters, Office

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when we began to utter the big thoughts in big words. You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Distance, Communication

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.91, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let the new faces play what tricks they will
  In the old rooms; night can outbalance day,
  Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,
  The living seem more shadowy than they.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Night, Garden

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

  James Russell Lowell

  Boston, Newspapers, Score

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.397

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• Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Eggs, Twenties, Room Service

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.287, Vintage

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• [Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .

  Olive Schreiner

  Moving, School, Space

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• Elysium is as far as to
  The very nearest room,
  If in that room a friend await
  Felicity of doom.

  Emily Dickinson

  Friendship, Happiness, Elysium

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.24, First Avenue Editions

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• There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Book, Library

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• When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer,
  But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb,
  We trample fear beneath our feet, and live
  Without a fear of evil yet to come.

  Ovid

  Prayer, Future, Feet

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• Soldier, there is a war between the mind
  And sky, between thought and day and night. It is
  For that the poet is always in the sun,
  Patches the moon together in his room
  To his Virgilian cadences, up down,
  Up down. It is a war that never ends.

  Wallace Stevens

  War, Moon, Night

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.302, Vintage

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• The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.

  John Dos Passos

  Book, Creativity, Adventure

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• Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Men, Elbows, Fats

  Evelyn Waugh (1994). “The Sword of Honour Trilogy”

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• Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Long, People, Wire

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• The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.

  Robert Benchley

  Smart, People, Smoking

  Robert Benchley (1932). “No Poems”

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• We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to livein our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they've been allowed to do the growing.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Memories, Night

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• I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Men, Pockets

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sports, Fashion, Hero

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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• Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.

  Yoko Ono

  Mind, Wish, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Oct 12, 2013

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• Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everythingin every possible way. The reason for ensuring that that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and goodmen, need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we do need to remember that it is necessary.

  Salman Rushdie

  Voice, Talking, Want

  "Is Nothing Sacred?" (1990)

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