Steven Amsterdam Quotes

I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.

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• Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • House
  • Body
  • Room

• I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Brain
  • Realizing
  • Paragraph

• I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Thought
  • Cutting
  • Room

• Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Cold
  • Reputation
  • Room

• My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • First
  • Room

• When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Write

• I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Like
  • Room
  • Lot

• A room without books is like a body without a soul.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Soul
  • Books
  • Room

• My mother gave me an understanding that as good as you think you are, you're not so great. There's always room for improvement. The reality is when people don't have someone to give them a sense of guidance, and say, "Hey, man, that's not happening," it's really hard.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• It's something we're watching, but not with great concern, ... I think there is room in the world for another major currency and this was one is certainly welcome.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • World
  • Great
  • Room

• How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Alone
  • Empty
  • Room

• I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Service
  • Room
  • Menus

• Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Creativity
  • Room
  • Experiment

• I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Up
  • Help
  • Makeup

• The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Things
  • Room
  • Black Cat

• A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Reason
  • Sentences
  • Unnecessary

• The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Man
  • Room
  • Sole

• I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Light
  • Fact
  • Room

• I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Myself

• We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.

  

  Blake Judd
  • Live
  • Ourselves

• I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Good
  • Men
  • Water

• In 2009, designer Tina Tangalakis went on a volunteer trip to Ghana and instantly fell in love with the country and its people. It was from that trip that Della was born, a company that provides jobs, education, and skills training to women in Ghana.

  

  Amanda Hearst
  • People
  • Women
  • Country

• The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where observation can give objective answers, yes or no, to questions whether events are causally connected.

  

  Gavin de Beer
  • Answers
  • Opinions
  • Observation

• I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.

  

  Steven Amsterdam
  • Room
  • Paragraph
  • Describing