Rooms Quotes - Page 20

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still.

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

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.

There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.

She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room

…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

Being in a foreign place, preferably for the first time, having seen many things and collected new impressions, and returning to an empty hotel room with an hour or so to blow. That mix often yields fine results.

When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.

As we work together and pool our resources, there's room for everyone to be successful.

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

Atheism has no room for human rights.

He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.

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

You're never going to find a guy who's exactly like you - first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room.

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.