Rooms quotes
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"Cool means being able to hang with yourself. All you have to ask yourself is 'Is there anybody I`m afraid of? Is there anybody who if I walked into a room and saw, I`d get nervous?' If not, then you`re cool."
"Michael Jackson's album was only called Bad because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic."
"What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented."
"Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room"
"I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief."
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"Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth."
"If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!"
"Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself."
"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."
"When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves"
"When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter"
"I know my voice is very distinctive because in a room of 100 people, my voice is always picked out."
"There is no room for God in him who is full of himself."
"A room without books is like a life without meaning."
"Porches are America's lost rooms."
"I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled."
"My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses"
"One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress."
"I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else."
"We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that." "My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you."
"Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore."
"Never be afraid to let people go if they're not right; often that's the only way you can make room for the right person."
"There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself."
"Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other’s company."
"My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance."
