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

• She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Room
  • Web
  • Loom

• It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Real
  • Season

• Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Teach
  • Kings
  • Philosophers

• Right from the start Abigail used to moan and fidget as her hair was relaxed or braided or thermally reconditioned, but her dad was determined that his child wasn’t going to embarrass him in public. That all stopped when Abigail turned eleven and calmly announced that she had ChildLine on speed‑dial and the next person who came near her with a hair extension, chemical straightener, or, God forbid, a hot comb, was going to end up explaining their actions to Social Services.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • God
  • Public
  • Actions

• I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

  

  Rick Scott
  • Thing
  • Dollars
  • Easiest

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

  

  Steven Amsterdam
  • Room
  • Paragraph
  • Describing