Rooms Quotes · Page 96

Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending…

— Tom Robbins

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference…

— Eric Cantona

I don't like anything that's "just an escape." To me the best part of golf is that, unlike my tennis game, I…

— Condoleezza Rice

And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near…

— Upton Sinclair

A lot of military people just take orders, and there is a place for that. But SEALs think for themselves from day…

— Howard E. Wasdin

I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience,…

— Jonathan Groff

In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.

— Mary Lou Retton

Then I saw Juli. She was two tables away from me, facing my direction. Only she wasn't looking at me. She was…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room…

— Virginia Woolf

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my…

— Rick Riordan

Then Drew shuffles into the dining hall. I drop my toast, and my mouth drifts open. Calling him “bruised” would be an…

— Veronica Roth

It was clear they weren’t getting any information out of Ian tonight. She, Bones, and Cat followed as Spade supported Ian, almost…

— Jeaniene Frost

I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance - a modern room that is well designed, and really…

— Simon Sinek

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

— Duffy Daugherty

Those situations are weird. You're in a room, and I knew they already loved this guy [for the role], so you're like,…

— Mandy Moore

One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it…

— Joseph Murray

I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. It's where intellectually impaired young people can…

— Jessica McNamee

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member…

— Pranab Mukherjee

Millions of filmmakers would love to be in my position right now. If you are honest it makes the world a better…

— Tommy Wiseau

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a…

— Donald Hall

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the…

— Jake M. Johnson

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to.…

— Ringo Starr

I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

— Jerry Stahl

Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something…

— Michael Ondaatje

Because no, I didn’t push her away. I didn’t add to her pain or do anything to hurt her. Instead, I left…

— Jay Asher

I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and…

— Mike Shinoda

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I used to be opposed to the idea of social entrepreneurship. I said, you know, let business be business, and philanthropy be…

— George Soros

And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs…

— Dylan Thomas

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts…

— Dave Barry

I remember sitting in my room and thinking of where it all went wrong and how I ended up losing control of…

— Karrine Steffans

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

— Jay McInerney

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

— Dick Wolf

To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on…

— William Safire

I love indoor plants. It makes any room feel open, fresh and homey. Keeping them alive is always a fun challenge for…

— Karlie Kloss

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

— Chloe Sevigny

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only…

— Sylvia Plath

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

— Alan Coren

The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.

— Adam Rapp

I don't see dramatic television because my wife is a political junkie, and we have 12 sets going night and day so…

— Robert Vaughn