Rooms Quotes · Page 57

A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened…

— Jean Rhys

Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare…

— Harriet Martineau

How could you not learn from Cher with her work ethic and the way she commands attention when she walks into a…

— Christina Aguilera

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a…

— Baz Luhrmann

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

— Khaled Hosseini

Once I’m obsessed with somebody, I’m terrified of them instantly. I’m not scared of them — I’m scared of meand how I…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I'm accustomed to just working by myself, alone in the room and cranking up the music and just working and getting all…

— Eric Drooker

As a young filmmaker, I shot a lot of stuff because I wanted to make sure that I got everything, but now…

— Storm Saulter

Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.

— Diana Wynne Jones

Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

The other day someone left a piece of plasticine in my dressing room. I didn't know what to make of it.

— Tim Vine

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

— William Butler Yeats

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good…

— Hermann Hesse

I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.

— Lionel Messi

And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes…

— Mark Strand

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

— Dylan Moran

and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering…

— Virginia Woolf

There are a lot of grown ups who should be sent up to their rooms and told they must stay there until…

— Dawud Wharnsby Ali

Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly…

— Ruth McKenney

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

— Paul Theroux

I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms…

— Alain Chartier

I love hotel rooms, so I take pictures of the room and the way out and the lobby, the food and drink.

— Geoffrey Zakarian

As we're staggering out of the hospital, I don't remember doing this because I was still high, but apparently I turned to…

— Bill Engvall

Every room that you walk into is better off that you're there.

— Jimmy Iovine

I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their…

— Lord Chesterfield

I enjoy being on my own. I feel like I have more room to stretch. I have to go with the flow.

— Johnette Napolitano

I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the…

— Jason Reitman

I can't take not knowing what the next day will bring- the uncertainty is sawing me in two. The room is dark.…

— Pittacus Lore

There were a lot of different things [in The Women's Room ]. I don't really want to summarize it in this way.…

— June Diane Raphael

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

— Alberto Manguel

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

— Dodie Smith

Go through every closet in your house in every room.

— Frederick Lenz

You got to always take advantage of getting your room cleaned. You may think it's nice not to have anybody in your…

— Mitch Hedberg

Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff […

— Lizz Winstead

The better the book the more room for the reader.

— Holbrook Jackson

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing…

— June Diane Raphael

I spent a year pulling all-nighters and driving around in a really tiny fuel-efficient car relying on the kindness of strangers and…

— Dar Williams

The most important lesson in managing our careers as we get older: Sometimes staying the game is as simple as not leaving…

— Tina Sloan

A story contained in the family lore of Brigham Young's descendants illustrates the submissive nature of humility. It recounts that in a…

— Truman G. Madsen

The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change…

— Steve Jobs