"There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will."
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"Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger."
"If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular."
"Although our emotions sometimes behave like spoiled, selfish children, unfortunately we cannot send them to their room or tell them to stop screaming."
"So vast is that Being that there's enough room for every sensation to have its momentary play."
"I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room."
"I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case."
"I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience."
"I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be."
"Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room."
"In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not."
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism."
"why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives."
"It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions."
"It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around."
"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."
"To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass."
"It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked."
"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."
"I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain."