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

• For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Country
  • Eye
  • Airports

• It must be tiring being Bob Dylan for the past 50 years. People act like he's not even human, which must be hard work. Every room he walks into just goes quiet.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Human
  • Room
  • Bob Dylan

• I remember hearing that the spirit was always next to you, so I would always make room in my bed for the spirit ... I'd make room for the teddy bears, Jesus and me. And then I'd wake up in the morning, and I'd squashed 'em all.

  

  Michael Fassbender
  • Remember
  • Morning
  • Jesus

• Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, Emily usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.

  

  Clare B. Dunkle
  • Intelligent
  • Situation
  • Comment

• Whatever I feel, I say frankly.

  

  Sharad Pawar
  • Feels

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

  

  Steven Amsterdam
  • Room
  • Paragraph
  • Describing