Rooms Quotes

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years."

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.