Rooms Quotes - Page 23

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.

Patience is timing, just being humble and being the most quiet person in the room.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").

Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.

I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only going to affect results.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

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

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

And above all, I will argue the necessity for preserving, against all shame, a demanding question of revolution itself, a question about utopia that keeps pushing its way through a field of failed aspirations, like a student at the back of the room who gets suddenly, violently, tired of being invisible.

People should allow me to be many things, really give me the room to put things in another dimension.

I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.