“To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.” WorldGivingCountryStatesRoomsNumbersGrowingMembersDevelopingDeveloping CountriesEnlargement Author:Anna Lindh
“The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.” SometimesChoicesProcessRoomsNumbersAudienceStageFrontsEventsDeterminedExperimentsRehearsalChoices You Make Author:Ben Kingsley
“A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.” WorldKindEarthGirlRoomsNumbersBuildingCreaturesWindowWaveSeekingForestsShipsPrisonerVoidTowersFrailTapestrySlitsFill The Void Book:The Crying of Lot 49 Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.” WritingYearsBookRoomsNumbersHalfMillionsNovelFiguresCoupleThousandPaperComputerHundredPensOccupationSolitary Author:Neil Gaiman
“I’m not being cynical, but when you’re doing a movie you have a number of choices as an actor. Then you see it all cut together and all of those precious little pieces you put in are maybe on the cutting room floor. So, you don’t have that much control. You have very little control, in fact.” LittlesFactsTogetherChoicesActorsRoomsNumbersPiecesCuttingCynical Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as if the room within were aflame.” IfsYearsNightSidesRoomsNumbersGreaterHundredWindowShiningPalaces Book:Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967 Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967
“I'm doing the exact same thing and adding a little bit more flexibility. I'm going to bench here. I'm not a kicker who's just going to hang out at practice. I'm going to be in the weight room pushing linebackers, defensive ends, tight ends. I'm going to push everyone. whatever I'm doing, I'm putting up numbers that someone else would do. Not only do I love working out, but at the same time it's able for others to maximize their potential.” LittlesEndsAbleBitsRoomsNumbersPracticeLittle BitWeightWork OutNflPushingHanging OutFlexibilityBenchesLinebackersWeight RoomKickers Author:Kyle Brindza
“In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal “girders” and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.” EndsMovingJoyMotherPurposeUnderstandingHoursRoomsNumbersHalfDesignBuildingProjectsSummerModelsStructureSizeFinishedTinyGradesDevicesNutsMetalsAirplaneFourthPlasticCriteriaLiving RoomBoltsKindergartenFourth GradeNuts And BoltsMoving PartsHappy HourWarships Author:Steven Chu
“In our universe we are tuned into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot tune into them.” RealityUniverseRoomsNumbersInfiniteTunesParallelsFrequency Author:Steven Weinberg
“A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of people can only leave their homes between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. So basically, public life has to be lived in these shifts, in order for everyone to fit on the streets because there's just no more room for any more infrastructure, any more highways. So it polarizes the community into day people and night people, and it becomes sort of a metaphor for racism and classism.” PeopleHomeNightCertainOrderCommunityRoomsNumbersStreetsFitRacismMetaphorHighwaysInfrastructurePublic LifeClassism Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An idea will hit me and I'll write it down. Then, when I'm ready to write, I check my little matchbooks and napkins and find that it is good or it's pretty terrible. There are other times when I don't have any ideas and I'll go into a room and close the door and I sit and sweat it out for a day or a month and eventually I come up with [something].” WritingYearsLittlesIdeasCoursesRoomsNumbersDoorsStreetsReadyMonthsTerribleWalkingCome UpChecksSweatShavingNapkins Author:Woody Allen
“I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and the work that they do is really fantastic. It's a blast just to sit around with them in the writers' room and listen to all the filthy jokes that will never get on the air.” ShowsRoomsNumbersAirHugeJokesFantasticAlsRunnersBlastGreat WritersFilthyHuge Numbers Author:Matt Groening
“This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHardFunRoomsNumbersLimitsBusyMessyEccentricRecluse Author:Alexei Panshin
“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