“[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.” WayWritingMindRoomsSilenceWrittenMinesQuietNostalgiaShouldersBalancedExileBetter WaysScreenwritersGreat WritingThere Comes A TimeQuiet Room Author:Raymond Chandler
“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.” IfsThinkingWellsDoeRunningRoomsInvolvedQuietChampionshipGet InvolvedNcaaQuiet Room Author:Christopher R. Hill
“Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.” WritingDifficultRoomsQuietAchievementCookingConstantDetailsKneesKitchenLeisureTomsUnclesParagraphHouseworkCabinsUncle TomQuiet Room Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture
“The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.” WorldHeartDoeWarRoomsDestinySunQuietOfficeAdvantageLibraryCommandBoardsAfternoonRetiringTowersDispositionRetreatIvoryOvalIvory TowerFaint Of HeartQuiet RoomAfternoon Sun Book:The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader Source: The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader
“What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day.” MindStillsRoomsPositionWallQuietSittingEmptyWickedContinuingPillowQuiet Room Author:Taisen Deshimaru
“In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.” ThinkingShouldMindIdeasEvilRoomsFiveBecomingQuietEatingFunctionDrinkingVariousSettingSettingsDesirableEating And DrinkingQuiet Room Author:Dogen