Room Quotes - page 11

Leading from the front: It's what built America. But these days, the federal government isn't at the front – it's cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices. (Michael Bloomberg)
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman. View quote
Lionel Messi
If everybody's watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position. View quote
Hillary Clinton
I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood... View quote
Kate Bush
Each day I live in a glass room Unless I break it with the thrusting Of my senses and pass through The splintered walls to the great landscape. View quote
Mervyn Peake
Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room. View quote
Henry Kissinger
The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space. View quote
Günter Brus
Those whose conduct gives room for talk Are always the first to attack their neighbors. View quote
Molière
He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room. View quote
Ronald Knox
Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me. View quote
Arthur Symons
It's rare that the sequel to a good movie lives up to expectations. Such is the case with Die Hard 2, the somewhat-muddled but still entertaining return of Bruce Willis' John McClane. Fortunately, the original Die Hard was good enough that there's room for the second installment to be enjoyable while still not matching the pace or possessing the flair of its predecessor. (James Berardinelli)
One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here." View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
"Sunlight's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose. View quote
R. S. Thomas
... the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying. View quote
Rohinton Mistry
As long as we give room for domination and the dominators, there will be worries and worried people. Poverty and pestilence will live eternally in the country. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Man is equal to man. There should not be exploitation. One should help the other. No one should harm anybody. Generally there should be no room for grievance or complaint from anybody. Everyone should live and let others to live, with a national spirit. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life. View quote
Edith Stein
Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else. View quote
Rudolf Steiner
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee! View quote
Walter Scott
When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee's dressing room I couldn't believe it. When Drogba was sent off I didn't get surprised. View quote
José Mourinho
God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done. (Ben Carson)
I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away. View quote
Gary Oldman
Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor. View quote
Christopher Moore (author)
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. View quote
Franz Kafka
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. View quote
C. S. Lewis