Room Quotes - page 3

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. (Oscar Wilde)
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and the action fine.
George Herbert
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
Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.
Alice Cooper
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
Rudyard Kipling
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
James A. Michener
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
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller
I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.
Janeane Garofalo
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. (William Butler Yeats)
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
Ray Bradbury
Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.
Penn Jillette
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
Erma Bombeck
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 Kissinger
Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.
Dave Barry
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.
Sophocles
Never be the brightest person in the room.
James D. Watson
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s. (A. Scott Berg)
Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.
Mark Haddon
If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.
Minoru Yamasaki
Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.
Augusten Burroughs
Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell.
Paula Deen