Small Rooms Quotes

• Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Dwelling, Mind, Path

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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• If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.

  Billy Corgan

  Jesus, Fighting, Fists

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• Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

  William James

  Men, Thinking, House

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• It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

  Annie Dillard

  Real, World, Littles

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• An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Artist, Space, Discipline

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• Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceive…I want education to empower people to see possibility.

  Maxine

  People, Imagination, Empowering

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• I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

  Anne Enright

  Wall, Book, Writing

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• Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.

  Aldous Huxley

  Girl, Home, Boys

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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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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• Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

  William Butler Yeats

  World, May, Damp

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.110, Wordsworth Editions

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• What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

  Alfred Adler

  Tea, Cosy, Persons

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• To have a 9-foot sofa in a small room can be kind of treacherous.

  Michael S. Smith

  Feet, Be Kind, Sofas

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.

  Douglas Preston

  Writing, Needs, Might

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• In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

  Louis Kahn

  Rooms, Doe

  "Back to the Drawing Board". www.slate.com. February 25, 2009.

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• America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Dog, America, Friendly

  1949 Letter, 26 Oct.

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• Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.

  David Eagleman

  Reality, Knowing, Understanding

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.209, Vintage

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• A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

  Rajneesh

  Men, Clothes, Ordinary

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• Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.

  William Morris

  Eye, Broken, Design

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• To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.

  Greg Lynn

  Issues, Design, Identity

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• Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.

  Peter York

  Real, Writing, Views

  "Writers' rooms: Peter York" by Peter York, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

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• I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we're not on tour and we're writing, we're in a small room and you can't get out physically. I like that mental checking-out aspect - I think it's quite nice.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Nice, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Happiness, Laughter, Air

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.

  Charles Bukowski

  Crazy, War, Wine

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• You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

  Stephen King

  Home, Writing, Letters

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Japan, Perfection, Tea

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