Roddy Doyle
Author
"If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing."
Small Rooms quotes
Small Rooms
27 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it."
William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness."
Alfred Adler
Psychologist
"What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?"
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it."
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"Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray."
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"Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room."
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"Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare."
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"An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?"
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"You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas."
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"It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films."
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