Best Small Rooms Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.”

Writing Looks Real Seems House Rooms Views Subjects Serious Small Rooms Room With A View Serious Subjects

Author:Peter York

“An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.”

Should Mind Artist Space Rooms Discipline Studios Small Spaces Small Rooms

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.”

Men Home Age Girl Space Rooms Boys Darkness Air Disease Prison Smell Boy And Girl Home Home Small Rooms

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.”

Whole Bigs Rooms Break Issues Design Fields Identity Objects Products Architecture Scales Realms Breaking Down Product Design Small Rooms Holism

Author:Greg Lynn

“It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.”

World Should Littles Real Rooms Surprise Real World Sensory Deprivation Colorless Small Rooms Sensory Deprivation

Author:Annie Dillard

“My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.”

Way Believe Kind Light Desire White Rooms Color Refuse Squares Pale Testing Mantras Pigment Small Rooms

Author:Bryan Batt

“Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare.”

Ifs World Life May Turns Black Rooms Gone Finished Straws Damp Chimneys Flare Small Rooms

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.”

“I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we're not on tour and we're writing, we're in a small room and you can't get out physically. I like that mental checking-out aspect - I think it's quite nice.”

Thinking Writing Stuff Rooms Nice Industry Aspect Small Rooms Checking Out

Author:Lauren Mayberry

“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.”

Ifs Wells Looks Whole Eye Rooms Design Broken Structure Patterns Details Interior Design Broken Up Restful Small Rooms

Author:William Morris

“What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?”

Persons Rooms Tea Confined Cosy Small Rooms

Author:Alfred Adler

“A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man”

Men Enough Rooms Lovers Clothes Ordinary Quantity One Love Ordinary Man Small Rooms

Author:Rajneesh

“To have a 9-foot sofa in a small room can be kind of treacherous.”

Kind Rooms Feet Be Kind Treacherous Sofas Small Rooms

Author:Michael S. Smith

“Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.”

Littles Reality Understanding Rooms Brain Knowing Conscious Know Yourself Mansions Small Rooms

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.”

“America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.”

America Politics Rooms Dog Chairs Friendly Tails Wags Small Rooms Wag The Dog

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?”

Ifs Looks Real Black Rooms Doors Clothes Boots Disguise Hood Loaded Assassins Small Rooms Crossbows Black Clothes

Book:Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.”

World Writing Littles Real Rooms Real World Small Rooms Sensory Deprivation

Author:Annie Dillard

“And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget and a lot not to do and in drugstores, markets, bars, the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night and look through this house and the house does not want to be built”

People Want Should Looks Doe Light Seems Moving Night House Forget Rooms Built Tired Bars Shade Electric Electric Light Small Rooms

Book:Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

Source: Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

“Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?”

Happiness Rooms Laughing Air Laughter Bird Filled Feathers Small Rooms Empty Houses

Book:Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.”

Way War My Own Rooms Crazy Drink Wine Denied Leisure Objections Small Rooms Cheap Wine

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Louis-Cesare’s anger suddenly filled the small room like water, and in a heartbeat his eyes went from silver tinged to as solid as two antique coins. I sat frozen, awash in a sea of power. I was beginning to understand why Mircea had wanted him along, only Daddy had failed to mention anything about the hair-trigger temper. I guess he assumed the red hair would clue me in.”

Two Eye Wanted Water Rooms Sea Hair Red Filled Sat His Eyes Silver Temper Clue Coins Frozen Daddy Triggers Heartbeat Antiques Red Hair Small Rooms

Book:Midnight's Daughter

Source: Midnight's Daughter

“The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.”

“I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.”

“You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.”

Writing Home Rooms Accepting Letters Small Rooms

Book:Pet Sematary

Source: Pet Sematary

“I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?”

Ifs Writing Years Running House Hurt Rooms Laughing Air Bed Clothes Laughter Bird Empty Letters Filled Afternoon Mary Embarrassed Feathers Hurt Me Small Rooms Empty Houses Schoolmates

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.”

Thinking Men House Rooms Consciousness Enormous Small Rooms

Author:William James

“In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.”

Done Moments Universe Rooms Events Perfection Tea Japan Ritual Transformed Communion Ceremony Small Rooms Tea Ceremony

Author:Okakura Kakuzo

“If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.”

Ifs Want Fighting Jesus Rooms Months Fists Fourteen Small Rooms

Author:Billy Corgan

“I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.”

Rooms Taught Office Convinced Diplomats Attics Small Rooms Stammering

Author:Peter Ustinov

“If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.”

Ifs Mother Heaven Rooms Hell Forever Listening Sitting Standing Princess Jane Diana Austen Teresa Small Rooms Duran Duran

Author:Roddy Doyle

“Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.”

Mind Rooms Discipline Tiny Dwelling Small Rooms Tiny Houses

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.”

Mind Causes Rooms Path Dwelling Right Path Small Rooms

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Color is a major element in scale. A small room can have a larger look by the use of closely related values, hues, and intensity. A large room can be made to look smaller by marked contrasts of color and value, hue, and intensity. Value is one of the most important elements. Whether light or dark, little value contrast makes for unity, and sharper contrast makes for stronger punctuation.”

Looks Littles Made Important Use Light Values Dark Rooms Color Elements Majors Stronger Unity Scales Related Intensity Contrast Hue Punctuation Small Rooms

Author:Van Day Truex

“Oddly enough, white is a dead tone in a small room. Choosing something with a more medium tone will make the space feel larger.”

Feels Enough Space White Rooms Mediums Tone Small Rooms

Author:Emily Henderson

“Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceive…I want education to empower people to see possibility.”

People Want Shows Imagination Rooms Possibility Window Landscape Perceive Empowering Horizon Small Rooms

Author:Maxine

“Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.”

World May Rooms Damp Small Rooms

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.”

Writing Book Light Faces Rooms Wall Computer Window Covered Hitting Curtains Small Rooms

Author:Anne Enright

“In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.”

Doe Rooms Small Rooms

Author:Louis Kahn