Quotes with rooms

  • But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
  • The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
  • Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

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  • Buddy Hackett A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Bill Watterson Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
    Weirdos from Another Planet
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Bryan Batt Be fun! I don't like homes or rooms that don't have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are, and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it's the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Billy Childish Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.
    Tim Teeman, The importance of being Childish, The Times, 2006-12-02
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Ingmar Bergman Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
    Ingmar Bergman
    Swedish stage and film director (1918 - 2007)
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  • Barbara Ann Radnofsky Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.
    Barbara Ann Radnofsky
    American politician, author and mediator (1956 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Erma Bombeck I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ''Checkout Time is 18 years.''
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Bess Myerson I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Alexander Herzen If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • A. Cornelius Celsus Live in rooms full of light; Avoid heavy food; Be moderate in the drinking of wine; Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics; Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water; Change surroundings and take long journeys; Strictly avoid frightening ideas; Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements; Listen to music.
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Carlo Collodi Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Philip Larkin Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Alexis Carrel The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Aldous Huxley The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Billy Baldwin The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
    Billy Baldwin
    American actor and writer
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