Rooms Quotes - Page 38

• A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Jail, Sailing

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 348 (16 March 1759).

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• It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.

  Steve Jobs

  Sunday, Night, Meals

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I'm happy, but there is always room for improvement.

  Corey Perry

  Improvement, Room For Improvement, Always Room For Improvement

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• It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.

  Martin Amis

  Fun, Character, Way

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• You get a kind of surreal feeling and also it allows you to focus on the things we want you to focus on in a new way - the stuff that's very small and mundane that happens in a person's life when they're in a hotel room. There's more interest because you're seeing a puppet do things that you're very familiar with that you might not notice if it was a human doing it.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Focus, Feelings, Puppets

  "Immersed in Movies: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson Talk ‘Anomalisa’ and Adult Stop-Motion". Interview with Bill Desowitz, blogs.indiewire.com. November 16, 2015.

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• The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Smart, Character, Journey

  "‘Hunted’ creator Frank Spotnitz on his new Cinemax drama & ‘The X-Files’ legacy". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I remember one particular moment (I don't actually know how old I was, but I guess around 7 or something like that) when I remember actually weeping. I was by myself in a room in the house, and I was just crying because I realized how much Jesus loved me.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, House, Remember

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I guess, as an Anglican, there's always room to move, which can be a dangerous thing, but also a very healthy thing, because bits of the great biblical tradition which you haven't fully plugged into before you've got the space to grow into... not least, the sacraments.

  N. T. Wright

  Moving, Biblical, Space

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I go into a meditative state but I don't follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate.

  Benoit Lecomte

  People, Swim, Sitting

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• I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to other paintings, or in different rooms. Paintings can change the way we experience and see the world.

  Stephen Beal

  Thinking, Different, Looks

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.

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• In the United States we have all across this country, we have dozens of Halakha courts, in which particularly observant Jews can take these issues of family law to an orthodox Court and have that judge, judge for them. As long as the courts don't violate the laws of the land and as long as there's a room for appeal should one or two parties disagree with the verdict, I don't see how this would have anything to do with being incompatible with what we refer to as Western ideas of democracy.

  Mark Durie

  Country, Party, Law

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I've lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Taken, Doors, Long

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• When I started shooting it just gives my partners more chances for rebounds. It opens up more room.

  Pavel Datsyuk

  Giving, Shooting, Chance

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• A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken. There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path. But this is a time when the future seems a door you can walk right through into a room called tomorrow.

  George H. W. Bush

  Taken, Fog, Doors

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• As I was whizzing around the United States on yet another demented book tour, getting up at four in the morning to catch planes, doing two cities a day, eating the Pringle food object out of the mini-bar at night as I crawled around on the hotel room floor, too tired even to phone room service, I thought, 'There must be a better way of doing this'.

  Margaret Atwood

  Morning, Book, Tired

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• I can't say this too often - that a little humor can make life worth living. That has always been my credo. Somebody once asked me, 'What would you like your epitaph to be?' I've always said that I'd like it to be: He left people a little happier than they were when he came into the room.

  Bennett Cerf

  People, Littles, Like You

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• The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

  David Shields

  Thinking, Plot, Absence

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.114, Vintage

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• It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

  Franz Kafka

  Heart, Eye, Presence Of Mind

  Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (1981). “The Metamorphosis”, Bantam Classics

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• There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Art, Color, Narrative

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• No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Men, Feet, Claims

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• One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

  Derek Jeter

  Yankees, Offering, Guy

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• The right to express one's views, practice one's faith, peacefully assemble with others to pursue political or social change - these are all rights to which all human beings are entitled, whether they choose to exercise them in a city square or an Internet chat room. And just as we have worked together since the last century to secure these rights in the material world, we must work together in this century to secure them in cyberspace.

  Hillary Clinton

  Exercise, Squares, Rights

  Address to the Ministerial Conference on Internet Freedom, delivered 8 December 2011, Fokker Terminal, The Hague, Netherlands

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• I do have a trophy room. It's in my attic in boxes.

  Troy Polamalu

  Trophies, Boxes, Attics

  "His name's hard to say, and he's hard to define". Interview with Jim Wexell, www.tribdem.com. January 30, 2006.

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• I use the exercise room early, because I don't want to get on the treadmill and everyone's going 'Oh, Bill Cosby,' and then they come around to see how fast I'm walking, and it becomes very competitive.

  Bill Cosby

  Exercise, Use, Want

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