Rooms Quotes - Page 5

• People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.

  Dennis Rainey

  People, Mosquitoes, Bother

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• One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Memories, Father, White

  "Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2004.

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• I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind. I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do or who I'm supposed to be. I don't want to be anything other than me.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Tired, Thinking, Mind

  Song: I Don't Want To Be, Album: Chariot, 2003

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• Sleep well in your room all three together... don't worry about me being alone.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Sleep, Worry, Together

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• Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

  Jay Bell

  Ghost, Used, Couches

  Jay Bell (2012). “Something Like Winter (m/m romance)”, p.171, Jay Bell

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• Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.

  Jon Katz

  Dog, Kids, Saws

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• There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

  Al Stewart

  Rocks, Historical, World

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• I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

  Garry Hynes

  New York, Ideas, Done

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• A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

  Hallie Ephron

  Dark, Men, Eight

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• ...in your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot, I've never found anybody who's chickenshit. The way to eliminate fear is to do what you're most afraid of.

  Jerry Rubin

  Want, Way, Scared

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.

  Edward M. Lerner

  Book, Energy, Needs

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• Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

  Christine McVie

  Writing, Floating, Honest

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• Inspiration,' the false artist says,'it just comes to me.' And it shows.His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room -- morning, evening, midnight, noon. For myself, I have to search for it. The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Morning, Wall, Inspiration

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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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• I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

  P. L. Travers

  World, My Own

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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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• 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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• The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.

  Jane McGonigal

  Real, Ideas, People

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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 United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.

  Andrew Lo

  Opportunity, United States, Doe

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• We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

  Walter Cronkite

  Telephones, Bars, Modern Life

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• The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.

  Art Buchwald

  Son, Doors, House

  Art Buchwald (1986). “"You can fool all of the people all the time"”, Fawcett Books

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• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Heart, Dark

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429

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• When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be around the living room as a pleasant experience, they're not going to vote for you even if they agree with you.

  David Brooks

  Running, Thinking, Years

  "Week In Politics: Hillary Clinton's Upcoming Announcement, Rand Paul's Remarks". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. April 10, 2015.

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• "I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting me gently on the shoulders. "James Steerforth, the best wish I can leave you is that you may come to be ashamed of what you have done today. At present I would prefer to see you anything rather than a friend, to me, or to anyone in whom I feel an interest."

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Best Wishes, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (2015). “David Copperfield: Classic English Literature”, p.96, 谷月社

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