Rooms Quotes - Page 13

I eat a huge breakfast every morning - it's what I look forward to. I'll do steel-cut oatmeal with blueberries and strawberries, an egg white scramble with mushrooms, zucchini, and onion, and a piece of cinnamon Ezekiel bread with almond butter. I could do that every single day.

I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.

I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.

I remember Tallulah (Bankhead) telling of going into a public ladies' room and discovering there was no toilet tissue. She looked underneath the booth and said to the lady in the next stall, 'I beg your pardon, do you happen to have any toilet tissue in there?' The lady said no. So Tallulah said, 'Well, then, dahling, do you have two fives for a ten?'

The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

You have to leave room for the other person's ego.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins.

I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.

Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

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

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.

The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.

Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

There is always room at the top - after the investigation.