Room Quotes

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins

Life, History, Place

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier

Less, Lies, Talking

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Find, Often, House

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.
Mary Schmich

Game, Baseball, Words

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Friedrich Schiller

Happy, Loving, Smallest

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Men, Feeling, Two

I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.
Ricky Williams

Life, Negativity

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.
Princess Diana

Children, Sick, Dying

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
Carl Sandburg

End, Nothing, Thinking

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.
Henry Rollins

Life, Home, Real

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Happy, Old, Tell

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
Stephen Fry

Takes, Common, English

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Jonathan Swift

Good, Best, Art

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
Desmond Tutu

Sun, Order, Open

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike

Art, Spirit, Space

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.
Mike Nichols

Jealous, Person, Dead

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Alice Walker

Men, Die, Peaceful

Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.
Katy Perry

Fun, Fantastic, Critics

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
Paul McCartney

Music, Nothing, Piece

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'
Abigail Van Buren

Two, Here, Walk

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Life, Courage, Mind

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
William Hazlitt

Find, Able, Prejudice

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
Ramakrishna

Away, Leave, Patient

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.
Ellen DeGeneres

Women, Live, Hard

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
Morihei Ueshiba

Peace, Great, God

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
Quentin Tarantino

Music, Good, Writing

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Political, Rich, American

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
David Hume

Reason, Reflection, Willing

There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.
Henny Youngman

Girl, Night, Her

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
Tori Amos

Person, Trying, Else

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