Rooms Quotes:

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

- A. A. Gill

topic: Rooms, Chef, Window

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

- Aaron Sorkin

source: "Aaron Sorkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.

topic: Rooms, Faces, Your Face

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

- Aaron Sorkin

topic: Smart, Thinking, Rooms, Smart Person

I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.

- Abbi Glines

source: Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

topic: Light, Joy, Rooms

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

- Abraham Cowley

source: Abraham Cowley (1779). “The Poems of Cowley”, p.113

topic: Home, World, Rooms, Whole World

In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Hate, Rooms, World

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

- Adam Driver

topic: Thinking, Rooms, Productive

At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

- Adam Levine

topic: Yoga, Rooms, Maroon, Maroon 5

You can't complain about your dressing room or you'll look like Celine Dion.

- Adele

topic: Complaining, Looks, Rooms, Celine, Dressing Rooms

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

- Adolf Loos

topic: House, Looks, Rooms

Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.

- Adrian Rogers

topic: People, Leaving, Rooms

... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Giving, World, Rooms

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

- Aerin Lauder

topic: Book, Rooms, Furniture

Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.

- Aidan Chambers

topic: Wall, Shapes, Rooms

There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

- Aime Cesaire

topic: Equality, Victory, Rooms, Rendezvous

With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.

- Aimee Bender

source: Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.67, Random House

topic: Dark, Hands, Rooms

But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.

- Aimee Bender

topic: Fire, Rooms, Cold

Love is the way I feel for you, the way you fill something inside me whenever you so much as walk into the same room. Sometimes love is quite, lingering in the background until you least expect it. But love it always there for you

- Aimee Carter

topic: Love Is, Way, Rooms, Sometimes Love

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

- Al Pacino

topic: Father, Enemy, Rooms, Corleone, Keep Your Friends Close

You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

- Al Sharpton

topic: Healing, People, Rooms

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

- Alan Garner

source: Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007.

topic: Rooms, Chairs

George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be either his own small intestines, or a guitar string; as I walked into the room, he lovingly placed the bundle on his head.

- Alan Goldsher

source: Alan Goldsher (2010). “Paul Is Undead”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

topic: Taken, Guitar, Rooms, Intestines, Guitar Strings

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

- Alan King

topic: Mother, Kitchen, Rooms

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

- Alan Parsons

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Trying, Rooms, Natural, Euphoria

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

- Albert Camus

topic: Saws, Firsts, Rooms

Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

- Albert Hadley

topic: Ceilings, Rooms, Surface, Interior Design

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

- Aleksander Kwasniewski

topic: Law, Abiding, Rooms, Anti Semitism

If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though youre the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldnt be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.

- Alex Karpovsky

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cutting, People, Rooms

Hey, is this room out of bounds?

- Alex Karras

topic: Golf, Hey, Rooms

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

- Alex Van Halen

topic: Brother, Rooms, Minutes, Brother Love

There is room in history for all of us.

- Alexander McCall Smith

source: Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The Miracle at Speedy Motors”, p.173, Anchor

topic: Rooms

She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.

- Alexander McCall Smith

topic: Sex, Bed, Rooms

Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Wall, Writing, Rooms

She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Three, Pace, Rooms, Camelot, Water Lily

Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

- Alice Cooper

topic: Christian, Drinking, Rooms

From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.

- Alice Cooper

topic: House, Fans, Rooms, Hotel Rooms

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

- Alice Munro

topic: Men, Rooms, Remember

There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.

- Alice Munro

topic: Done, Realization, Rooms

Across the room, Hale smiled slightly. 'We can draw you a diagram if you need it.' 'No thanks,' Nick said. 'I think I've got everyone but you.

- Ally Carter

topic: Thinking, Needs, Rooms, Diagrams, Hale

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

- Amanda Holden

topic: Past, Littles, Rooms

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

- Amanda Pays

topic: Rooms, Dining, Red, Dining Rooms

Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.

- Amanda Peet

topic: Kevin, Rooms

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.

- America Ferrera

topic: Important, Want, Rooms, Describe Myself

We had an awesome locker room of girls, and I'm honored to have shared a locker room with all those girls.

- Amy Dumas

topic: Girl, Lockers, Rooms, Locker Room

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

- Amy Lowell

source: Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.52, Rutgers University Press

topic: Rooms, Emptiness, Tick

My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they have many pleasant colours and lustres To recommend them. Also the scent from them fills the room With sweetness of flowers and crushed grasses.

- Amy Lowell

source: Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Beautiful, Flower, Rooms

I'd rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That's perfect for me.

- Amy Sedaris

topic: Perfect, Rooms, Perfect For Me

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

- Amy Sherman-Palladino

topic: Rooms, Sweatpants

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

- Andrew Bird

topic: Practice, Comforting, Rooms, Sheet Music

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

- Andy Kaufman

topic: Rooms, Audience, Sharing Things

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

- Andy Roddick

topic: Fists, Way, Rooms, Press Conferences

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Christmas, World, Rooms, Humorous Christmas, Meaningful Christmas

I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.

- Angela Cartwright

topic: Writing, Pieces, Rooms

which pisses her off and makes her scream and i look around my room and miss me.

- Angela Johnson

source: Angela Johnson (2010). “The First Part Last”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

topic: Missing, Looks, Rooms, Miss Me

Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.

- Angelo Dundee

topic: Winning, Lockers, Rooms, Locker Room

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

- Anita Diament

topic: Book, Rooms, Reader

A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.

- Anita Shreve

source: Anita Shreve (1989). “Eden Close: a novel”, Harcourt

topic: Rooms, Tiny, Hello

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Grief, Three, Rooms, Three Months

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.

- Anna Godbersen

topic: Sleep, Might, Rooms

There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do.

- Anna Kendrick

topic: Believe, Thinking, Rooms

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Romance, Special, Rooms, Emergency Room, Great Romance

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

- Anne Enright

topic: Character, Knowing, Rooms, Knowing More, Knowing Everything

Perfectionism is the death of a great room.

- Anne McDonald

topic: Design, Rooms, Interior Design

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

- Anthony Marra

topic: Sister, Bed, Rooms, Craters

Books do furnish a room.

- Anthony Powell

source: Title of novel (1971)

topic: Book, Reading, Rooms

In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger -- a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Lonely, Moscow, Rooms

I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.

- Anurag Kashyap

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Wall, Cutting, Rooms

There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."

- Archie Frederick Collins

topic: Two, People, Rooms

I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Rooms, Said, Disagreement

If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Alive, Rooms

Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.

- Arthur Rubinstein

topic: Men, Practice, Rooms

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

- Audrey Meadows

topic: People, Rooms, Lanes, Meadows

Live in rooms full of light.

- Aulus Cornelius Celsus

topic: Light, Rooms

If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

- Austin Kleon

source: Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.104, Workman Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Needs, Rooms, Talented Person

Find the most talented person in the room, and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

- Austin Kleon

topic: Trying, Needs, Rooms, Talented Person

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

- Austin Osman Spare

topic: Doors, Mind, Rooms, Your Room

There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

topic: Doors, Mosques, Rooms, Back Doors

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

- Ayumi Hamasaki

topic: Rooms, Conscious, Save Nature

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

- Baal Shem Tov

topic: Men, Rooms, He Man

Porches are America's lost rooms.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

source: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1996). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Houghton Mifflin

topic: America, Rooms, Lost, Porch

The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.

- Barry Diller

topic: Running, World, Rooms, Overhead

Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

- Bayard Rustin

source: Bayard Rustin (1971). “Down the line”, Quadrangle-New York Times Book Co.

topic: Mind, Plot, Rooms, Sinister, Birth Place

My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.

- Beetlejuice

topic: Dark, Rooms, Life Is, Dark Room

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

- Bella Abzug

topic: Women, Rooms, Pedestal

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

- Ben Affleck

topic: Would Be, Rooms, Firsts, Hotel Rooms

British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."

- Ben Dreyfuss

source: "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview With James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.

topic: Views, Ponds, Rooms, Room With A View, British Film

There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?

- Ben Harper

topic: God, Rooms, Separation

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

- Ben Katchor

topic: Technology, Light, Rooms, Proceeding, Announcing

If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.

- Ben Macintyre

source: Ben Macintyre (2013). “Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche”, p.18, A&C Black

topic: Would Be, Rooms

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

- Bernard Berenson

topic: House, Library, Rooms

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

- Bernard Williams

topic: Women, Men, Rooms

We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy

- Bert McCracken

topic: Different, Records, Rooms, Headphones

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

topic: Style, Rooms, Sitting, Conniving

There is always room in our budget for a little experimentation.

- Beth Comstock

topic: Littles, Rooms, Experimentation

When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.

- Big Boi

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Soul, Rooms, Footprint, Funk

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

- Bill Bruford

topic: Rooms, Rhythm, Rhythm Section, Sections

Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.

- Bill Bruford

topic: Fear, Awful, Rooms

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Rooms, Individualism, Ballparks

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Men, Evil, Rooms

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Men, Doe, Rooms

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Prayer, Each Day, Rooms

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Knowing, Silence, Rooms

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Men, Rooms, Inability

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

- Bob Balaban

source: Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

topic: Creating, Littles, Rooms, Charging, Boring Things

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

- Bob Brown

topic: Community, Democracy, Rooms, Turnover

Don't ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I'm someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie.

- Bob Norster

topic: House, Littles, Rooms, Little House On The Prairie, Dressing Rooms

Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind

- Bob Proctor

topic: Growth, Mind, Rooms

Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room.

- Bobby Bare

topic: People, Rooms, Stills

Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.

- Bobby Flay

topic: Trying, Tables, Rooms, Workspace, Grilling

I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.

- Bon Scott

topic: Numbers, Giving, Rooms

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

- Boris Becker

topic: Children, Rooms, Kind, Living On The Edge

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

- Brad Gilbert

topic: Rooms, Plenty

Then I'm going?" Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. Then we only have one more problem left to discuss," Seth said. Everyone turned to him. How do I get invited

- Brandon Mull

topic: Adults, Nodding, Rooms, Tacit

There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger

- Brian Andreas

topic: Song, Rooms, Moments

It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.

- Brian Setzer

topic: Thinking, Guitar, Rooms

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

- Brit Marling

topic: Editing, Kitchen, Rooms

Burn? Smite? Punish? Why is your god so intolerant? So jealous? Why must there be only one god? Why is there not room for many?

- Brom

topic: Jealous, Rooms

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.

- Bruce Jay Friedman

topic: Important, Rooms, Tvs, Somber

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.

- Bruce Schneier

topic: Locks, Information, Rooms

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

- Bryan Batt

topic: Art, New Orleans, Rooms, Mardi Gras, Dining Rooms

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

- Bryan Ferry

topic: Band, Wrecks, Rooms

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

- Bryan Procter

topic: Waiting, Literature, Rooms

There are still days you can catch me tape recording eternal silence and playing it backwards for an empty room

- Buddy Wakefield

topic: Silence, Rooms, Tape

You have to leave room in life to dream.

- Buffy Sainte-Marie

topic: Dream, Rooms

I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.

- Burt Ward

topic: Morning, Mean, Rooms, Dressing Rooms

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

- Caio Fonseca

topic: Mixing, Rooms, Paint, Figuring It

Just remember, when you're with me you're not the strangest person in the room. Go ahead, get weird on me.

- Calista Flockhart

topic: Inspirational, Rooms, Remember

There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because she has credentials of thirty-years standing.

- Calvin Jillson

topic: Years, Groups, Rooms

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

- Cameron Diaz

topic: Records, Want, Rooms

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

- Candice Olson

topic: Dining, Tables, Rooms, Dining Rooms

Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.

- Candice Olson

topic: Looks, Want, Rooms

To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Glasses, Locks, Rooms, Your Room

Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.

- Carol J. Adams

topic: People, Meat, Rooms, Raising Awareness

I constantly walk into a room and I don't remember why. But for some reason, I think there's going to be a clue in the fridge.

- Caroline Rhea

topic: Thinking, Rooms, Remember, Fridges

There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.

- Carrie Snodgress

topic: Tables, Rooms, Notes, Dressing Rooms

This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows and rooms that I'm passing through This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going I'm not afraid because I know this is my Temporary home

- Carrie Underwood

source: Song: Temporary Home, Album: Play On, 2009

topic: Home, Way, Rooms

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

- Cary Elwes

topic: Character, Rooms, Littles, Well Written

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

- Cat Deeley

topic: Pride, Tables, Rooms, Dining Rooms

Love isn't relevant once things are really bad. They say love makes the world go round-but it doesn't, you know. Love is a luxury, and you indulge in it when things are OK. As soon as they are bad-really bad-there just isn't a place for it anymore-no place where there could be room for it

- Celia Fremlin

topic: Love Is, Luxury, Rooms

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

topic: Reading, People, Rooms, Second Rate

Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.

- Charles Duke

topic: World, Roger, Rooms, Space Exploration

With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Positive, Vision, Rooms

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Rivals, Rooms, Moments

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Heart, Comfort, Rooms

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

- Charles Williams

source: Charles Williams (2016). “War in Heaven”, p.7, Wipf and Stock Publishers

topic: Bells, Rooms, Telephones

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

- Charley Pride

topic: Country, Thinking, Rooms

Every plan I have is the best plan in the room.

- Charlie Sheen

topic: Rooms, Plans

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

- Charlie Watts

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Use, Rooms, Wheels, Packing, Hotel Rooms

A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.

- Chelsea Handler

topic: Ideas, Rooms, Good Times, Hotel Rooms

So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room.

- Cheryl Clarke

topic: Fighting, Space, Rooms, Fighting Each Other

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

- Cheyenne Jackson

topic: Home, Rooms, Theater, Home Away From Home

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: Thinking, Rooms, Stills

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Important, World, Rooms

I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.

- Chita Rivera

topic: Beautiful, Glasses, Rooms

I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment.

- Chloe Sevigny

topic: Flower, Fleas, Rooms, Hotel Rooms, Flea Markets

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

- Chloe Sevigny

topic: Real, Rooms, Nests

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

- Chris Cornell

topic: Real, People, Rooms

Your personal brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room - remember that. And more importantly, let's discover why!

- Chris Ducker

topic: People, Rooms, Remember, Personal Branding

If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.

- Chris Rock

topic: Rooms, Cleaners

Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.

- Chris Sarandon

source: "Q&A: Kimberly Elise calls ‘For Colored Girls’ the most emotional role of her career". Interview with Gregory Ellwood, uproxx.com. November 3, 2010.

topic: Actors, Rooms, Study

Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.

- Christiane Northrup

topic: Wisdom, Miracle, Rooms

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

- Christina Ricci

topic: Rooms, Geek, Fantasy

The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Paradise, Rooms, Casts

We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams.

- Christine Caine

topic: Dream, Rooms, Needs

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

- Christine McVie

topic: Writing, Floating, Rooms

Infinite riches in a little room.

- Christopher Marlowe

topic: Littles, Riches, Rooms

Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.

- Christopher Nolan

topic: Editing, Rooms, Manipulation

There is no room in baseball for a clown.

- Chuck Dressen

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Baseball, Rooms, Clown

At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Rooms, Firsts, Owners

Dancing - however you do it, even if it's in your living room - is a great workout.

- Ciara

topic: Workout, Dancing, Rooms, Living Room, Great Workout

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

- Clara Schumann

topic: Ice, Tea, Rooms

I could almost feel him near me, the way you can feel a fire's presence in a cold room.

- Claudia Gray

topic: Fire, Rooms, Way

Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins...

- Clement Greenberg

source: Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press

topic: Sacrifice, Rooms, Logic

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

- Clifford Stoll

topic: Rays, Keyboards, Rooms

Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

- Clive Barnes

topic: Dance, Athletic, Rooms, Living Room

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

- Clive Owen

topic: Actors, Rooms, Sportsman

My favorite room in the house is the living room. We have two big couches, six recliners and over 20 pillows. It's a really comfortable place to hang out with my family.

- Cody Linley

topic: Two, House, Rooms, Living Room, Recliners

It's like I'm in a closet in a college dorm room.

- Cody Lundin

topic: College, Survival, Rooms, Dorm Rooms

I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.

- Colin Farrell

topic: Room Service, Rooms, Excited

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

- Colin Hay

topic: Play, Rooms, Empty, Empty Rooms

There is always room for at least two truths.

- Colum McCann

topic: Two, Rooms

Always be civil, but with a plan to neutralise everyone in the room.

- Conor McGregor

source: Twitter post from Feb 13, 2014

topic: Mma, Rooms, Plans

Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys.

- Corey Haim

topic: Boys, One Day, Rooms, Sneak, Lost Boys

As for her perfume, it was the kind you only noticed after she'd left a room, not while she was still in it. Even then you didn't realize it was perfume, you only wondered what had made you think of her just then.

- Cornell Woolrich

source: Cornell Woolrich (1965). “The Dark Side of Love: Tales of Love and Death”

topic: Thinking, Rooms, Kind

He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

- Cory Doctorow

topic: Listening, Rooms

Waiting around to be saved is like waiting to die and I have done more of both than anyone else in the room.

- Courtney Summers

source: Courtney Summers (2012). “This Is Not a Test”, p.46, Macmillan

topic: Waiting, Done, Rooms

Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.

- Craig McCracken

topic: Boards, Wigs, Rooms

I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

- Cyndi Lauper

topic: Rooms, Rivalry, Planets

I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.

- D. A. Pennebaker

topic: Thinking, Democracy, Rooms

There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.

- D.E. Stevenson

topic: Children, Childhood, Rooms

When you are warm-hearted, there is no room for anger, jealousy or insecurity.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Insecurity, Rooms, Warm Hearted

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room.

- Dale Dauten

topic: Moving, Mind, Rooms

Swampy [ Marsh] and I live as far away from each other as we possibly can and still work together. But we just always felt like we were funnier when we were in the room together than we are when we're separate.

- Dan Povenmire

source: Source: www.slate.com

topic: Working Together, Rooms, Far Away, Away From Each Other

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.

- Dana Delany

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Together, Woods, Rooms, Liam

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

- Danger Mouse

topic: Rooms, Dorms, Dorm Rooms

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

- Daniel Clowes

topic: Littles, Rooms

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

topic: Long, Rooms, Hours

Hal is on his way." The nurse announced reentering the room.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Nurse, Way, Rooms

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

- Daniel Radcliffe

topic: Rooms, Complexity, Humans

To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

- Danny Sugerman

topic: Jail, Drug, Rooms