“History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.” PeopleLooksYoungCultureRoomsMediaToughBusyContemporaryLooking BackFleetingTough TimesConsuming Author:Steven Spielberg
“Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the bedroom, les livres du chevet, everywhere.” LooksBookHouseRoomsOughtComfortablePassagesBedroom Author:Elisabeth of Wied
“You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions, their looks and their words--and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer.” PeopleShouldLooksRoomsAttentionObservationStaringObserversSeemingQuickness Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their eyes upon the ceiling, or some other part of the room, look out of the window, play with a dog, twirl their snuff-box, or pick their nose. Nothing discovers a little, futile, frivolous mind more than this, and nothing is so offensively ill-bred.” PeopleMindLooksLittlesPlayEyeRoomsDogPicksWindowIllBoxesMannersNosesEtiquetteAttendingFrivolousSnuff Author:Lord Chesterfield
“I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.” LooksHas BeensBookNextRoomsKnownMinutesNeededPressesVersionsLook UpHotelButtonsHandyHotel Rooms Author:Margaret Atwood
“It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.” ShouldLooksValuesRoomsStreetsFashionCarStyleJudgingDressesDrawingInherentCrucible Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
“Write down the area of your life that most needs your attention right now and then write out all the details you saw of your soul's vision for this part of your life. What will that part of your life look like? How will achieving your goal change your life? How will it change the life of those around you? When you reach your goal, when you fulfill that desire, what will it make room for? Write that all down.” NeedsWritingLooksDoeSoulDesireGoalRoomsAttentionVisionMinutesAchieveRight NowAreasDetailsYour SoulNow And ThenChanging Your LifeAchieving Your GoalsReaching Your Goals Author:Debbie Ford
“The most important thing I can teach my kids is that you can't put your value in looks. Presence is based upon magnitude. You can pretend to have an air about you but it is quickly deflated, you cannot deflate presence. Presence walks into a room and surrounds and fills anything that's in that room without trying to demand it, it takes over. It can come from a smile. Like I said, love makes you beautiful. What is beautiful radiates.” TryingLooksSaidI CanImportantKidsBeautifulValuesWalksRoomsTeachAirDemandImportant ThingsOver ItSurroundMagnitude Author:Terrence Howard
“When you play a smaller, more intimate venue, you can have real conversations with your audience, take risks, and stay current. You can also change the set list, on how the day feels or how the audience reacts. When you do arena shows, every arena looks and feels the same. You can't see who is in the room.” FeelsLooksRealPlayShowsRoomsAudienceRiskConversationCurrentsListsIntimateArenaVenuesReal Conversation Author:Jason Mraz
“My mother comes in my room and says, "Just look at this mess! This is a pig sty!" Now, I've already been in the room five hours, and she wants me to LOOK at it.” WantLooksHumorFunnyMotherHoursRoomsFiveMessWant MePigsHe Wants Me Author:Bill Cosby
“I always look for nature or natural lighting within buildings and within rooms that has been done by somebody else to suit their needs. I look at it very closely as a photographic thing, then enhance it.” NeedsLooksHas BeensDoneNaturalRoomsBuildingSuitsLighting Author:Wolfgang Petersen
“What's important is a great set of objective ears, years of experience and a great room with a true sound. Look at this way: If the equipment in a studio is a high performance car, and the mastering engineer is the driver, putting the car on ice and trying to achieve a good lap time is like trying to master music in a bad room, all the equipment in the world wont help you connect with the music and let you hear what's really happening. The room is the environment in which the mix performs to its potential, as the road is to the car. It's hugely important.” IfsWorldWayTryingYearsLooksImportantHelpingSoundRoomsEnvironmentAchieveCarMastersHappeningsPerformancesEarsStudiosObjectivesIceDriversEngineersEquipmentLapWhat's ImportantYears Of Experience Author:Chris McCormack
“A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite - it should look inside of us. When I put them in the middle of the room, I attach the paintings at the top to the ceiling and on the bottom to the floor. I prefer this to just hanging them from the ceiling because it creates a place in a space, like a wall.” ShouldLooksSpaceRoomsMiddlePaintingWallWindowOppositesBottomCeilings Author:Pierre Soulages
“I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.” PeopleLooksKindStoriesWantedRoomsBreakDressingsPsychoticDressing RoomsBlah Author:Carrie Fisher
“All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.” IfsLooksRoomsReadyOughtWelcomeFriendlyInterior DesignDecorating Book:The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris
“Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.” IfsWellsLooksWholeEyeRoomsDesignBrokenStructurePatternsDetailsInterior DesignBroken UpRestfulSmall Rooms Author:William Morris
“I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.” IfsKnowsWayYearsLooksLastsStarsStuffRoomsWonderGoneCrazyEuropeRedDistanceCornersMy WayMovie StarCarpetGlamourMansionsRed CarpetBartender Author:Andre Dubus
“The most moving scene for me in 'Pride and Prejudice' is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy's sister from embarrassment and confusion, and as the music plays on, Darcy's look of gratitude becomes a look of love, which we see reciprocated in Elizabeth's eyes.” LooksPlayEyeMovingRoomsPrideGratitudeScenePrejudiceSavedConfusionEmbarrassmentDarcy Author:Andrew Davies
“The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.” IfsKnowsLooksEyeRoomsPainterDucks Author:Peter Cook
“One of the many things I love about working with Ryan Murphy is that you're always thin-sliced in this business. You walk into a room and people want you to be how you look or how you're perceived or whatever it is in that 10 minutes that hey meet you. I think Ryan [Murphy] has an intuition that looks a little bit deeper and sees things that other people might not see in you - sometimes you might not even see in yourself - but that he knows are there and that he might want to get to grow and stretch with as an actor.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLooksLittlesSometimesMightActorsGrowsBitsWalksRoomsMinutesLittle BitDeeperIntuitionHeyThings I LoveMurphy Author:Matt Bomer
“There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.” PeopleKnowsFeelsLooksPersonsBigsRoomsHellGenerationsPaintingPlates Author:Julian Schnabel
“There's this scene in "The Night of the Hunter" when the kids are downstairs, and you have the feeling that they're both in a room and at the same time it looks remote. And you wonder, How can you give the effect of both "inside" and "outside" at the same time. And you realize, by watching it many times, that around the scene there's this black edging.” GivingLooksFeelingsKidsNightBlackRealizingRoomsWonderEffectsSceneHuntersInside And Outside Author:Marjane Satrapi
“Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.” TryingLooksRememberMovingRoomsMiddlePaperGardenWindowEmbraceStaringPacePapersFingertips Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“Beware of advice. Consider your sources carefully. Look them up. See if you respect what they've made. Get educated. Be informed about who's real and who isn't. Study your craft and your industry, practice all the time, challenge yourself - write things you think you can't, try things you have been told you shouldn't try - leave room for surprises, and learn how to collaborate.” IfsThinkingWritingTryingLooksHas BeensMadeRealChallengesRoomsPracticeStudyAdviceSourceIndustrySurpriseEducatedCraftsChallenge Yourself Author:Karen Walton
“What's been most helpful to me is realizing that those times when all the heads in the room turn and look at me as if I was crazy, reinforce my own leadership capability. Because I've been in a number of those settings where I've been right. And I've been right often enough that now when it happens I don't automatically think, "Oh, my, what's wrong with me?" or "Ohhh, I must not be ready for this role," or "They know so much more than I do."” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksEnoughHappensTurnsRealizingMy OwnRoomsNumbersRolesCrazyReadySettingSettingsHelpfulCapabilityLook At Me Author:Mitchell Baker
“The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the families of my patients, I get standing ovations and I get tears and they look at me as superhuman and superhero. No amount of money, no amount of anything can ever compare to that feeling.” LooksFeelingsHandsSpeakWaitingRoomsTearsAmountStandingPatientCompareLook At MeSuperheroGratificationSuperhumanWaiting RoomsOvation Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
“If you look at some of the clips of me in the operating room, I sit in the chair, I control the microscope with my mouth, I connect, my hands are always working in the brain, my feet are controlling everything.” IfsLooksHandsRoomsBrainFeetMouthsChairsMicroscopesClipAlways WorkingOperating RoomControlling Everything Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
“When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was a map of myself. Invisible to others, but held in the rug, were all the places I had stayed - for a few weeks, for a few months. On the first night anywhere new I liked to lie in bed and look at the rug to remind myself that I had what I needed even though what I had was so little. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.” WorldFirstsLooksLittlesSometimesHelpingHomeLyingNightLeftRoomsWeekMonthsNeededBedSafeInvisibleMapsTemporarySixteenPrecariousSafe Places Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Good people drink good beer. Just look around any public barroom and you will see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.” ThinkingLooksRoomsDrinkBarsBeerPubsGood Beer Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in our changing room and it doesn't surprise me because we've got quality in there. If we click and play well like we did in the first half, we can open up any team.” IfsWayFirstsWellsLooksLittlesPlayBitsRoomsHalfQualityPlayerTeamLittle BitSurpriseDominantClicksSurprise Me Author:Rio Ferdinand
“People ask why I do monochromatic clothes; the reason is because I'm thinking in proportion to the world. In this room, your head is going to look so much more interesting if it's on a monochromatic column. Whereas I think people think of outfits and gets a little too fussy, a little too detailed. I'm always thinking of the line of a person standing with their head in a room and I always feel like a stalk, or a stem, or a pillar is nicer. I always think of everything architecturally.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldFeelsLooksLittlesPersonsReasonAsksLinesInterestingRoomsClothesStandingProportionStemColumnsPillarsStalkingOutfitsAlways ThinkingFussyMonochromatic Author:Rick Owens
“You look at William Powell in 'My Man Godfrey' and he's a butler in that and he's very dapper. He's a very refined gentleman. I liked playing around with that, with the good posture and a style, a panache, and a way of moving about the room.” MenWayLooksMovingRoomsStyleGentlemanRefinedPostureButlersPlaying AroundPanacheGood PostureDapper Author:Evan Peters
“I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to other paintings, or in different rooms. Paintings can change the way we experience and see the world.” ThinkingWorldWayLooksDifferentEnjoyRoomsPaintingRelationGallery Author:Stephen Beal
“Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.” LooksTwoStoriesBigsNextImaginationRoomsWatchesHorrorCornersGhostScareGrudgeTwo DaysGhost Stories Author:Vanessa Hudgens
“You want to go to a place where you work every day, where you get to tell stories that look and feel like the audience in America that are watching. You're really limited, if you walk into a room and you can just tell stories about that. So, we've been really blessed.” IfsWantFeelsLooksStoriesAmericaWalksRoomsAudienceBlessed Author:Greg Berlanti