“As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.” NeedsSocialRoomsTalkingAudienceLike YouLockedKeep Talking Author:Jonathan Stroud
“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
“When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.” WholeRunningStuffLosesRoomsTalkingMouthsBunchNegativity Author:Allen Iverson
“I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones.” I CanWalksRoomsTalkingPhonesNot Talking Author:Madonna Ciccone
“When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around a podium as easily as if it were my living room and although I am keyed up I am not anxious. I feel as if I were doing what I should be doing - the feeling I have when intent in my studio.” IfsFeelsShouldWellsArtFeelingsMovingSpeakRoomsTalkingStudiosAnxiousLiving RoomSpeak Now Book:Turn: The Journal of an Artist Source: Turn: The Journal of an Artist
“I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!” IfsRoomsPayTalkingSittingAmazed Author:Quentin Crisp
“Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.” GivingEnergyRoomsTalkingAudienceGiving Back Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“It's so much better for me to do a talk show. You still have that energy of the audience, and the audience is just as important as that guest that's sitting next to me. It's not about me and that guest exchanging energy and talking. It's about everything that's going on in that room, and they're as much a part of the show as anything. I like this better than anything I've ever done.” StillsImportantDoneShowsNextEnergyRoomsTalkingAudienceSittingGuestsTalk ShowsExchanging Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“[Hillary Clinton] was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame.' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She's talking to me.” IfsTryingSaidMightChallengesDecisionRoomsTalkingBlameClintonActiveDecision Making Author:Kirsten Gillibrand
“I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.” PeopleThinkingYearsLooksSometimesFilmWealthRoomsPowerfulTalkingRolesTelevisionPerformancesSexyRevolutionaryPowerful WomenPeople Talking Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal
“The secret to writing sound effects is having a room you can be alone in, trying to make the sounds yourself, and seeing what comes out. It's similar to if you're writing a character talking with their mouth full: the only way I know to transcribe that is to stuff my fist in my mouth and write down what sounds I make when I try to talk.” IfsKnowsWayWritingTryingBookCharacterStuffSoundRoomsSecretTalkingSeeingEffectsMouthsComicComic BookFistsSound Effects Author:Ryan North
“I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act like I know what they're talking about, or sit on set with somebody and they'll be trying to explain something and not using layman's terms and I'll just say, "Hey, excuse me, what do you mean by that? Explain to me so I just understand."” KnowsTryingMeanBigsGuyTermRoomsTalkingExcuseBunchHeyExcuse MeLayman Author:Mark Wahlberg
“I appreciate your giving my book -- and in no small way, me -- a chance. To thank you, I really wanted to acknowledge all of you in the book. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough room for each name. So I've put in a code name that stands for all of you reading this book. The name is 'Mom.' It will be our little secret. So when you see 'Mom' in the acknowledgments, you'll know I'm really talking about you. And don't let my mother try to tell you otherwise.” KnowsWayGivingTryingLittlesBookEnoughWantedMotherReadingNamesChanceRoomsSecretTalkingMomAppreciateCodeAcknowledgeAcknowledgmentAppreciate You Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humor. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away.” PeopleWayRoomsPayAttentionTalkingTakenReputationNflInsignificantDynastyBathtubs Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?” LooksPersonsAnswersRoomsPartyTalkingUniversalTonightCocktailsCocktail Parties Author:Letitia Baldrige
“It's because you alienate half the room talking about sports. Half the crowd will be against you no matter what you say.” MatterSportsRoomsHalfTalkingNo Matter WhatCrowds Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.” WantRoomsTalkingFourEqualPercentSilentAccessHonestlyManagersKillersSixtyMentoring Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“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.” PeopleIfsTwoThreeRoomsTalkingTelevisionListening Author:Betty White
“I always want my standup act to appeal to everybody in the room, and when I started standup, and I would see people talk about their kids and their wife, and I'd always cringe a little bit, like, 'I can't get a date, I don't know what you're talking about.'” PeopleKnowsWantLittlesI CanKidsBitsRoomsTalkingWifeLittle BitAppealsCringe Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everythingin every possible way. The reason for ensuring that that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and goodmen, need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we do need to remember that it is necessary.” WayWantNeedsLittlesReasonRememberLiteratureVoiceRoomsTalkingReaderCitizensPleaseAbsolutesSacredPrivilegedArenaSecrecyUnimportantAbsolute FreedomGoodman Author:Salman Rushdie
“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.” ChildrenTodayTurnsCultureParentLinesMy OwnRoomsTalkingClassPovertyGoneFiveTeacherViolenceGenerationsChildhoodDrugConcernSuicideMadAddAddictionMotherhoodAidsFeaturesUsaPregnancyTeenageCleaningGangHomelessnessHomeworkAnorexiaDrug AddictionDrug AddictAdventGumChewingBulimiaSnapshotsHomicideParents And TeachersChewing GumTeenage PregnancyGang ViolenceAnorexia And Bulimia Author:Mary Blakely
“When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.” IfsPlayRunningKidsNightOrderReadingStarsParentSleepRoomsTalkingRocksInformationListeningStonesVoteSickBiggerLoudRollingJournalRock StarMoronRolling StonesTalking Politics Author:Alice Cooper
“When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you're talking to, but the people that aren't in the room. Everybody else.” PeoplePersonsDecisionRoomsViewsTalkingManagementCriticalPoint Of ViewCritical Decisions Author:Ben Horowitz
“The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself to see your company... through the eyes of the people that you're working through. Through the eyes of the employees, through the eyes of your partners... through the eyes of the people who you're not talking to and who are not in the room.” PeopleImportantEyeRoomsCompanyTalkingDisciplineManagementImportant ThingsPartnersHardestThings To DoEmployeeCeoHardest ThingNot TalkingThrough The EyesHardest Thing To Do Author:Ben Horowitz
“People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayBelieveIdeasGrowsRoomsTalkingInfiniteEndlessEvolveInfinity Author:Ziggy Marley
“The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to actively make a choice to want to go see it. It's not being forced on anyone. Whereas 24 you can be flipping channels and it's right there in your living room. Anyone has access to that. But that just shows how mainstream it is and how people are seeing this stuff on YouTube. People are scared of it. This is a subject matter that everyone's talking about and everyone's thinking about, particularly in American culture.” PeopleThinkingWantMatterShowsChoicesCultureStuffDifferencesRoomsTalkingSeeingSubjectsScaredTheatreAccessMainstreamAmerican CultureYoutubeSubject MatterLiving Room Author:Eli Roth
“When I was about 17, I didn't speak. English was like a foreign language. I'd just grunt. The only time I talked was when I said my lines on set. I didn't speak to any of the actors or anything. Then one day Alison from the Corrie press office started talking to me in the green room and I just decided to talk back. She ran upstairs to tell everyone that she'd just had a 10-minute conversation with me like it was the most unbelievable thing in the world. I just woke up one day and thought, 'I'm going to talk today'. I've really made up for lost time since.” WorldMadeSaidTodayActorsLostSpeakLanguageLinesRoomsTalkingMinutesOne DayConversationOfficeDecidedGreenPressesRanUnbelievableOnly TimeUpstairsForeign LanguageSpeak EnglishLost TimeGruntUnbelievable Things Author:Jack P. Shepherd