“I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.” WritingStuffRoomsPaperSittingEmptyPerformingInterviews Author:Randy Newman
“Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?” GivingEnoughValuesAsksRoomsCreativePiecesBuddhismBalancePaperHarmonyDown AndListsSuperficialAdopting Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.” IfsWayShouldLooksDifferentSongRoomsTalkingPiecesInformationDesignPaperUniqueShould HaveEightBarsKicksFormulasArchitectBlankInitials Author:Ryan Tedder
“All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.” BookSchoolRoomsWrittenPaperHigh SchoolPapers Author:Jim Sanborn
“I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again.” MenSaidFightingRoomsSawsFuturePaperFilledSigningPremonition Author:Pete Seeger
“A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.” FilmFormActorsBornRoomsPiecesPaperThirdsCamerasFinalsFinishedEditing Author:Robert Bresson
“That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" - which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff - "back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was."” LittlesBeautifulStuffRoomsGraceFlowerWallPaperClothesStoresHolesClothingsAirplaneSan FranciscoGypsyVelvetDowntownLaceSlickI'm BackVelvet UndergroundAmazing BeautifulPaper Flowers Author:Stevie Nicks
“I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that I get to sit in a room on my own and the set costs nothing and the actors cost nothing and I'm the director and it's so simple. You just need a pen and paper to make a book. You don't need a huge budget or a gaffer or a best boy.” PeopleNeedsBookFactsFilmActorsMy OwnSimpleRoomsBoysHugeInvolvedCostDirectorsPaperComplicatedBudgetsPens Author:Markus Zusak
“Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.” WritingMayHas BeensArtDoneFormVoicePoorRoomsSecretClassPovertyMaterialsPaperMajorsLaborPlentyProsePoetry IsHospitalsWorking ClassSubwayScrapTypewritersSurplusPantry Author:Audre Lorde
“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
“Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.” KindValuesDifficultRoomsClearLetting GoPaperDaughterWanderMy DaughterNutsSentimentalPapersClutterRefreshingAuthentic HappinessSiftingSentimental Value Author:Gretchen Rubin
“Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.” IfsWayMeanWholeLanguageRoomsRocksObjectsFitPaperProjectsFunctionMalesGenderFeminineMasculineVienna Author:Lawrence Weiner
“The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.” RoomsRecordsPaperFilledCurrentsMedicalHospitalsHospitalityFilesMedical Records Author:Timothy Murphy
“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