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“If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.”

Ifs States Bigs Water Space Rooms Stage Wind Leaving Bones Dust Decay Yards Sage Fossils Gardener Wyoming Meticulous Pruning

Book:The solace of open spaces

Source: The solace of open spaces

“In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.”

“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.”

“What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.”

Ifs Knows Men Children Made Humanity Work Decision Rooms Business Terrible Office Tragedy Denial Nurturing Inhuman More To Life Work Place

Author:Dora Russell

“I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Would Be Together Rooms Dying

Author:Eddie Murphy

“I think time is a constraint to destroy and then reinvent. If you give me a constraint, I'll accept it. But I always try to move it around, or to readapt it. Ecco! If you lock me in a room, well I'll go out through the window! I always remember Achille Castiglioni, one of my mentors, and he always said that in industrial design you have the idea, the fantasy, the concepts - that's the marmalade! - but the constraint of the brief is the bread. You need both in order to find structure for your ideas.”

“If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.”

Ifs Shows Rooms Land Worst Theater Down And Musical Surroundings Rehearsal Rehearsing Imagining The Worst

Author:Hildegard Knef

“There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.”

Ifs Looks Light Dark Rooms Painting Golden Lamps Splendor Light Up Dark Room

Book:Six Months in Italy

Source: Six Months in Italy

“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

“And now that Thou has restored to me the knowledge of Thyself, O Lord, let thy pardon fall on me, since Thy infinite mercy is not better known in anything than in pardoning a Dismas (the traditional name of the good thief) on the Cross and a Dominicus Corea on the gallows. If in Hell there is room for sinners, in Heaven also there is room for penitents.”

Ifs Fall Names Heaven Rooms Known Lord Hell Crosses Mercy Infinite Traditional Sinner Thieves Thyself Pardon Gallows

Author:Dominicus Corea

“Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of those flower-stands full of ferns and plants - the sort you come across in drawing rooms at home, with wire-work legs. I do not mean that Mondoleh has wire-work legs under water, but it looks as if it might have.”

Ifs Looks Mean Home Might Water Perfect Rooms Flower Plant Legs Drawing Admire Islands Wire Gems Ferns

Author:Mary Kingsley

“The house has to be clean and in order because I have to be able to sift through the creative disorder in my mind. The mental disorder that I'm exploring has to bounce off the walls. It has to go in and out of different rooms. If the room is not in order, then I can't distinguish which is which, and that really drives me crazy.”

Ifs Mind I Can Different Able Order House Rooms Creative Crazy Wall Clean Disorder Exploring Bounce Mental Disorder Drive Me Crazy Off The Wall

Author:Alexis De Veaux

“You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.”

People Ifs Problem Left Rooms Healing Solutions Patient Operations Left Out

Author:Al Sharpton

“If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.”

Ifs Want Rooms Audience Quiet Tension Abortion Shut Up Spectacular

Author:Lewis Black

“If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.”

Ifs Rooms Involved

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Pain is like a new room in your house that you never knew you had. If you had known, you would have bolted and locked the room past any entering. But truly, it is a room like any other, four glaring white walls and a dark hard floor, and if you don't try to get out, it is possible to remain in it. Once you tried to get out, you ... couldn't ... stand ... it. Don't think of getting out.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Hard Pain Past House Dark White Rooms Known Four Wall Locked Entering White Walls

Book:Seed of Mischief

Source: Seed of Mischief

“If you asked everybody in a quiet room what they think, they'd say, 'What does the NCAA do really well? We run championships really well.' And yet we have this thing we don't get involved in.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Doe Running Rooms Involved Quiet Championship Get Involved Ncaa Quiet Room

Author:Christopher R. Hill

“In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Self America Stuff Rooms Secret Fronts Honesty Performing Monkeys Bizarre

Author:David Wenham

“If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.”

Ifs Would Be Rooms

Book:Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche

Source: Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche

“Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.”

Ifs World Turns Rooms Share Sight Dragons Horizon Eagles Brighter

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.”

People Ifs Black White Rooms Four Jokes Crowds Black People

Author:Gary Owen

“Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my dressing room floor. But I couldnt let anyone know. If they thought I might slow production, I figured that would end my career.”

Ifs Knows May Has Beens Ends Might Pain Actors Challenges Rooms Careers Productions Hiding Severe Dressings Headache Dressing Rooms Migraine

Author:Morgan Fairchild

“It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.”

People Ifs Want Trying Play Seems Night Given Rooms Wonder Talent Hard Work Equal Harder Scales Work Harder Eric Your Room Kenny

Author:B. B. King

“Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to dream. If you stay true to your ideas, filmmaking becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. And if it's an honest thing for you, there's a chance that people will feel that, even if it's abstract.”

People Ifs Feels Should Kind Stills Ideas Different Stories Dream Process Chance Rooms Honest Structure Abstract Different Things Filmmaking Stay True

Book:David Lynch: Interviews

Source: David Lynch: Interviews

“If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.”

Ifs Humor Care Political Order President Rooms Emergencies Political Humor Gags Emergency Room

Author:George W. Bush

“If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.”

Ifs Two Three Rooms Lord Opinion Cases Investing Economist Keynes

Author:Winston Churchill

“You just may be a redneck if your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture.”

Ifs May Home Used House Rooms Used To Be Furniture Redneck Living Room Lawns

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you dont have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when youve finished, nothings changed. Youve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.”

Ifs Trying Stills Fighting Lost Can Do Loses Rooms Break Five Changed Finished Negativity Things Change Lockers Locker Room Try Your Best

Author:Rafael Nadal

“At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.”

Ifs Way Want Feels Book Whole Body Light Wanted Stars Space Rooms Painting Hair Bed Moon Window Empty Lays Rounds Dancer Astronaut Helmet Empty Space Milky Way Points Of Light Bed Time

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker.”

Ifs Done Nations Rooms Morning Fruit Workers Hotel Immigrants Breakfast Bent Your Room Motels Immigrant Workers

Author:Bob Menendez

“Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Ends Film Simple Answers Rooms Entertainment Deny Cynical Viewers

Author:Michael Haneke

“There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.”

Ifs School Rooms Degrees Capable Pursue Nursing

Author:Jeff Merkley

“I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.”

Ifs Years Rooms Twenties Newspapers Indifferent

Author:Jean Cocteau

“He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor.”

Ifs Rooms Cities Trouble Politician Jokes Likes Reporters American Politics

Book:Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

Source: Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

“Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as no empirical law can ever be, philosophers have discovered that they are not absolutely novel - instead, they are tautological.”

Ifs May Law Rooms Results Novel Mathematics Philosopher Mathematical Exception

Author:Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

“All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it's a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.”

Ifs Want Writing Mean Enough Film Three Rooms Acting Materials Scripts Versions Rhythm Shooting Efficient Filmmaking Editing Harvest Manipulate Coverage

Author:Alexander Payne

“My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it.”

Ifs Sometimes Stories Film Certain Hours Rooms Half Wise Cutting Scene Impact Stuck Remove Editors Sections Half Hours Slowing

Author:Alexander Payne

“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.”

Ifs Knows Rooms Degrees Doctors Medical Psychological

Author:John Oliver

“Being on TV in front of people is a lot different than sitting in a dark room with a microphone. When I had my radio show, I was on four hours a day for 20-something years. If you put a live microphone in front of Mother Teresa for that amount of time, she'd piss somebody off.”

People Ifs Years Different Shows Mother Hours Dark Rooms Four Fronts Tvs Amount Sitting Radio Microphones Teresa Dark Room

Author:Wendy Williams

“When you get to a certain level of recognizability, celebrity, you can't go out of the house without someone going, "Can I just have one photo?" I don't mind, by the way, if anyone wants one we can take some photos. But sometimes you just wanna stay in the house or in the hotel room with the shades closed.”

Ifs Way Want Mind Sometimes Certain House Levels Rooms Hotel Shade Hotel Rooms

Author:Jack Black

“When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be around the living room as a pleasant experience, they're not going to vote for you even if they agree with you.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Running President Rooms Four Vote Agree Pleasant Four Years Guests Living Room

Author:David Brooks

“The thing that I love about television there are no more than two or three people watching you at a time. If there are more than two or three people in a room they're talking to each other, they're not listening to you.”

People Ifs Two Three Rooms Talking Television Listening

Author:Betty White

“To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing your homework or studying for a test, you have to have a clean room.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Rooms Creative Study Tests Clean Organized Apartment Be Creative Messy Homework

Author:Demetri Martin

“I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense.”

Ifs Order Rooms Intense Stretching Wrinkles Comforter

Author:Jacob Latimore

“Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.”

Ifs Feels Long Two Shows Seems Rooms Fire Sitting Fairs Lists Bars Video Pot Electric Invitations Sweaters Saga Outdated Isle Noodles

Author:Simon Hoggart

“And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.”

Ifs Knows Soul Moments Might Felt Rooms Frightened Incapable Terrified

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.”

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“You always knew when Seve walked in a room even if you had your back to him. He oozed charisma and brought a whole new meaning to aura.”

Ifs Whole Rooms Charisma Auras

Author:Lee Westwood

“Inspiration,' the false artist says,'it just comes to me.' And it shows.His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room -- morning, evening, midnight, noon. For myself, I have to search for it. The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it.”

Ifs World Needs Whole Shows Inspiration Artist Rooms Morning Four Wall Whole World Evening Pockets Midnight Noon Palate Four Walls

Author:Kurt Schwitters

“When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.”

Ifs Should Humans Book Ends Hard Enough Body Kids Earth Goal Rooms Secret Behinds Alive Wall Should Have Instance Primaries Code Bedroom Revealing Printed Life Goal

Author:Blake Butler

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