"I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room."
Rooms quotes
Rooms
1.7K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Rooms
Browse quotes that often appear alongside rooms — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Rooms quotes (page 10 of 87)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists."
"I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?"
"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."
"The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true."
"Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door."
"Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine."
"Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it."
"There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous."
"I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off."
"The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds."
"Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues."
"It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples."
"You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare."
"I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage."
"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."
"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 keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do.""
"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."
"Today I do a mental housecleaning, making room for new, positive thoughts."