Rooms Quotes - Page 43

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental.

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

There is so much power in being able to look comfortable in a conference room, and I’m not sure dudes in suits are used to seeing women do that.

It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

My room is so small, the mice are hunchbacked.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room.

It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room, and continue in the Spirit as we go from place to place.... The prayer hour is left standing before God till the other hours come and stand beside it; then, if they are found to be a harmonious sisterhood, the prayer is granted.

I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were made famous by the Merchant Marines, and I admired it and he said, "You know, they used to call this a urine jacket, but it didn't sell."

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner.

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes to jokes.

And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.