Rooms Quotes

There is no room in war for delicate machinery.

Hey, thanks for stopping by," Howard said. "I'd offer you some tea and cookies, but all we have is boiled mole and artichokes. Plus, we kind of have a dead girl in the living room.

We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

These are folks that keep people out of hospitals, out of emergency rooms, out of nursing homes. And not only that, they help people achieve more fulfilling lives.

No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory.

It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.

When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that.

Today I do a mental housecleaning, making room for new, positive thoughts.

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.

When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

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

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

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

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

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.

Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.

There is plenty of room for us all to succeed and carve our own path.

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

The stupidest person in the room might have the best idea.

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

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.

The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.

I have to keep Dune perfume in my dressing room, because I always wear it, but I must never put it on in case it makes me choke.

You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary.

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.

Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.