Room Quotes - page 10

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it. (Charles Caleb Colton)
It's not that everything needs to have substance, but when nothing does then you know we're living in a bankrupt society, an artistically bankrupt society, and that's not okay. I think there's room for forms of entertainment that are very light and frivolous and fun, but when those forms of entertainment, forms of "art" if you will, become presented as something more than that, and are believed to be something more than that, then we've got a lot of problems. View quote
Davey Havok
This dance is the joy of existence. I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence. View quote
Rumi
I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there... View quote
William Golding
There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin'. View quote
James Russell Lowell
I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else. View quote
Dwight L. Moody
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. View quote
Mary Oliver
There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world. View quote
Jacques Maritain
An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door? View quote
Terry Pratchett
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination. (Jhumpa Lahiri)
The more false we destroy the more room there will be for the true. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks water from the springs of the bed. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room. View quote
Peter Cook
What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. View quote
Ray Charles
Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person. View quote
Robertson Davies
we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away. View quote
Conor Oberst
I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly. View quote
Pablo Picasso
There is no room for communists in Kenya. View quote
Mwai Kibaki
Books do furnish a room. View quote
Anthony Powell
The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want. (Robert Ley)
There's no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear. View quote
Hans Rosling
Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were "the people," and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Kant [...] stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge [...] to make room for faith,” but all he had "denied” was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough! View quote
Michael Bloomberg