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“The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.”

Looks House Rooms Comfortable

Author:Adolf Loos

“The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.”

Enough Bigs House Space Rooms Records Kitchen Covered Turmoil Accommodate Dining Dining Rooms

Author:Marian McPartland

“I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!”

Kind I Can Moving House Rooms Tables Noise Scream Bedroom Mobile Bass Earthquakes Dining Attics Dining Rooms

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.”

Kind Two Helping Film House Rooms Fire Four Doors Figures Directors Plus Locks

Author:Michael Pitt

“You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations”

World Long Remember Universe House Rooms Land Creation Ignorance Planets Huge Buddhism Standing Closets Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can see my guns at my apartment. The safe room is a special place... It's good to have a safe room in your house. It's storm-proof; we've got food, store supplies, all kinds of stuff.”

Kind House Stuff Rooms Special Safe Gun Storm Stores Proof All Kinds Apartment Supplies Special Places

Author:Luke Scott

“Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.”

Writing Looks Real Seems House Rooms Views Subjects Serious Small Rooms Room With A View Serious Subjects

Author:Peter York

“The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.”

Important Book Bigs House Rooms Century Essentials Important Things Library Parades Ever After 18th Century

Author:Peter York

“At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's houses, left only with a handful of fading memories and a body racked with great pain and suffering.”

Children Ends Home Body Age Pain Suffering House Left Memories Rooms Old Age Your Children Handful Fading Pain And Suffering

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house.”

House Fear Rooms Conquering Fear Living In Fear Conquer Your Fears

Author:Hafez

“Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.”

Different House Rooms Views Window Originality

Book:Radi Os

Source: Radi Os

“I have a very beautiful room in my house... It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and... I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.”

Thinking Feels Writing Ends Beautiful Three House Sides Perfect Rooms Nice Office Glasses Exposed Bedroom Distracted Very Nice Very Beautiful Three Sides

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.”

Way Two Kids House Rooms Doors Wall Convinced Divided Right Way Bricks Brick Wall

Author:Neil Gaiman

“When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically. The main story that you see on the TV screen is maybe like the living room of a house. But there are various other rooms in this house that you will otherwise never see. But if you use the Internet, you find out what's in the attic. And if you use the cell phone, you find out what's on the first floor. And on another medium, you find out what's in the cellar.”

“How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.”

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.”

Humans Wells Care Today House White Rooms Race Education East Winner Outcomes White House Indifferent Catastrophe Human History

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.”

Way Writing Whole Stories House Grows Rooms Growing Up Generations Ready Fats Dozen Mail Getting Old Refrigerators Cranky

Author:Orson Scott Card

“It would be great if we had our own personal force fields. Just imagine creating your own architecture in your room. Buildings. You wouldn't have to spend all that time saving your money for that second house. You'd simply push a button and have as many houses as you want.”

Ifs Want Would Be House Force Rooms Imagine Fields Building Creating Architecture Saving Buttons Your Room Force Fields

Author:Michio Kaku

“I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.”

Littles Persons Light Spirit Night House Bits Dark Walks Rooms Darkness Growing Up Growing Doors Taught Little Bit Cracked

Author:Tony Dorsett

“If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.”

Source: Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers

“A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches.”

People Knows May Different Lasts Moving Courses House Wish Levels Rooms Environment Greater Doors Comfort Ambition Riches Enormous Settling Gentleman Surround Different Levels

Author:Chris Murray

“The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.”

People Art Reality House Rooms Greater Art Is Function Removal

Book:Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited, have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a "house of mourning," I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory.”

Has Beens Death Certain Found House Heaven Christ Rooms Glory Spots Mourning Disciple

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live (Washington Square, New York, fh) although it's no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.”

Mind Long Ideas Night House Rooms Cities Streets New York Particular Painting Long Time Impression Squares Interiors Glimpse Synthesis City Streets Streets At Night

Author:Edward Hopper

“Lindsey [Buckingham] and I went up to Aspen and we went to somebody's incredible house and they had a piano and I had my guitar with me and I went in their living room, looking out over the incredible Aspen sky and I wrote 'Landslide.'”

House Rooms Sky Guitar Incredibles Piano Living Room Landslides Aspens

Author:Stevie Nicks

“God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.”

Stills God Earth Jobs House Rooms Car Bed Sitting Chairs Hospitals Vacation Email Down To Earth Cleveland Cubicles House Of God

Book:God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

Source: God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really matter what the routine is (coffee shop, someone else's house, my dining room table), I'm pretty fast. I go back to the start of whatever I'm working on, every half hour or so, and revise my way back to where I left off. I have my headphones on, I'm checking email, I look at Twitter and Tumblr, and drink a lot of coffee. I need a lot of distraction to work.”

“What a house - nothin' but rooms!”

House Rooms Yankees New York Yankees

Author:Yogi Berra

“The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.”

Long House Rooms Comedy Worst Conversation Tables Get Up Magnificent Dining Dining Rooms Old Houses

Author:Paul Lynde

“I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.”

Knows Persons Christian Desire Father House Christ Church Rooms Atheism Habit Positive Atheism Convinced Mourning Departure Splendor Mansions Ardent

Book:The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc

Source: The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc

“I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.”

People House Parent Rooms Grandfather Uncles Cousin Aunt My Grandfather My Cousin

Author:Dichen Lachman

“I once went to a fraternity house when I was in high school... you know, you would rent them during the summer for really cheap, and students are in there. So I met some people who rented a room. I just remember it being very dirty.”

People Knows School Remember House Rooms Students Mets Summer High School Dirty Fraternity

Author:Spencer Grammer

“More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.”

House Rooms Divorce Bedroom

Book:Ann Landers says: truth is stranger ...

Source: Ann Landers says: truth is stranger ...

“Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.”

Thinking Remember Death Mother Father House Rooms Our Father Think Of You Departed

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.”

People America Turns House Language Rooms United States Of America English Language Nationality Allegiance Crucible Dwellers Polyglots American English Boarding House

Book:Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914

Source: Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914

“In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.”

Sometimes Whole Opportunity House Rooms Views Design Building Garden Architecture Dramatic Epic Maintaining Exhibits Subordination

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.”

Giving House Pleasure Rooms Known

Book:Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

“How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?”

Men Giving House Rooms Doors Fronts Front Doors

Book:The raw Pearl

Source: The raw Pearl

“[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.”

House Rooms Behinds Sitting Negative Critics Reviews Smallest

Author:Tallulah Bankhead

“A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.”

Enough House Rooms Solitude Islands

Book:The collected plays

Source: The collected plays

“My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in my backpack. Physical location tells me what book to read.”

Book Different Reason Reading House Rooms Practice Location Different Books

Author:Jordan Ellenberg

“Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.”

Men Littles Death Father House Dark Rooms Fairs Passing Passings Glorious Good Man Entertaining Entry Passing Through

Author:Adam Clarke

“Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.”

Heart House Heaven Christ Loss Rooms Trouble Doors Tears Crosses This Life Sigh Sad Heart

Book:Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition

Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition

“Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.”

“In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.”

Feelings Home Together House Rooms Streets Safe My Family Weight Size Harm Fats Acknowledge Mum Elephants Threshold Playgrounds Filth Elephant In The Room

Author:Caitlin Moran

“The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.”

Home Faces House Rooms Accepting Feet Objects Cat Corners Familiar Folds Unfamiliar Cozy New Home Inanimate Objects

Author:Emily Carr

“perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.”

Men Looks Home America Form Asks House Voice Rooms Silence Rights Air Strange Activity Dignity Spread Determined Cruelty Censorship Sheep Committees Caucus

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“Go through every closet in your house in every room.”

House Rooms Buddhism Closets

Author:Frederick Lenz

“So, think about how you use a disc that you own of an Xbox 360 game. If I buy the disc from a store, I use that disc in my machine, I can give that disc to my son and he can play it on his 360 in his room. We both can't play at the same time, but the disc is the key to playing. I can go round to your house and give you that disc and you can play on that game as well.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Wells I Can Play Use Games House Rooms Son Keys Machines Rounds Stores My Son Discs Xbox

Author:Larry Hryb