Rooms Quotes - Page 30

There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin.

Spirituality, a defended person has no room for love or compassion-he is too busy defending himself.

Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

I was born in 1962, and the room next to me was 1963.

I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me.

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.

Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist.

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.

It’s not exactly that I can’t stay in one place. It’s that if I’m in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room!

No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.

I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.

It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.

Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. I am no where near as much of that as Bob Dylan. But when your antenna is up you are pretty fixated and there is not much room in your life for anything else.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

I'm gonna put extra blankets, free, in all your rooms, and there'll be no cover charge.