Rooms Quotes - Page 33

Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.

When someone new walks into a room, the first thing we notice about that person is probably their gender. And the second things is what they're wearing. And based on what they're wearing, we start making certain assumptions about them.

There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you.

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

You walk into a room, see a woman, and something happens. It's chemical. What are you going to do about it?

It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

I can really recommend a beautifully but sparsely furnished room with empty walls!

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind

Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the hospitals.

I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something.

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

Oh," he said, knocking a red ball into a hole. "It's you." "You were expecting someone else?" I asked. "Am I interrupting your social calender?" I made a big show of glancing around the empty room. "I don't want to keep you from the mob of fans beating down your door." "Hey, a guy can hope. I mean, it's not impossible that a car full of scantily clad sorority girls might break down outside and need my help.