Quoted in The Grove: room
You are a mansion with infinite rooms, yet you’ve convinced yourself you have to live in the basement.
~Nitya Prakash
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
~Vernon Howard
Of all the facts I daily live with, there’s none more comforting than this; If I have two rooms, one dark, the other light, and I open the door between them, the dark room becomes lighter without the light one becoming darker. I know this is no headline, but it’s a marvelous footnote; and comforts me in that.
~Gerhard E Frost
EndQuote:
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
~Antonio Porchia
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Exercise Prompt for 09/13: simple
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A few yellow chrysanthemums will make a small room look twice its size, and when the sun comes out upon a yellow wall-paper the whole room seems suddenly to expand, to open like a flower. When it falls upon the pot of yellow chrysanthemums and sets them ablaze, it seems as though one had an angel in the room.
~The Yellow Room
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
~Alfred Hitchcock
The kitchen is the most important place in any house. Visit your family, and that’s where you’ll end up. Go to a party, that’s where everyone congregates.
~Michelle Dockery
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Posted from the Grove
Real intimacy depends on truth – lovingly told – especially in the bedroom.
~Joyce Brothers
Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you’re in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.
~Judith Martin
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It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
~Alice Koller
In representing criminal defendants – especially guilty ones – it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense. The courtroom oath – to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth – is applicable only to witnesses… because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.
~Alan Dershowitz
I love being in a courtroom.
~Kamala Harris
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*~Julianne Chung: To be creative … abandon ‘originality’
https://psyche.co/ideas/to-be-creative-chinese-philosophy-teaches-us-to-abandon-originality
Thanks to: DailyPnut.com
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~Nigel Warbrick: Strictly Courtroom (2:24) Hollywood and the courtroom
https://vimeo.com/116879142
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~Top Trending: 10 Most Expensive Hotel Rooms In The World (12:29) ’nuff said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viwfx0DtjHE
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I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room.
~Horatio Nelson
Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.
~H L Mencken
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
~Gary Busey
The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.
~Adolf Hitler
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
~Charles Darwin
I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won’t tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time.
~Neil Gaiman
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
Laurence J Peter
A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.
~David A Bednar
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VIDEO:
How peaceful a bedroom is without a man in it.
~Dorothy Eden
It is the personality of the mistress that the house expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
~Elsie de Wolfe
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
~Honoré de Balzac
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
~Zora Neale Hurston
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*~Simeon Pratt: The Darkroom (10:01) landscape and story married
https://vimeo.com/300310529
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*~William Armstrong: Unspoken (6:58) ravishing farewell, in dance
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/452864223
*For a friend and fellow creative suffering a recent loss
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~Hugo Goudswaard: Room 11 (4:45) birth of a band, an introduction
https://vimeo.com/4733587
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~Justin Lutsky: Federal Affair (3:30) hijinks
https://vimeo.com/2392939
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
~Carl Sandburg
A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
~Tennessee Williams
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You need to have a home to go back to, whether it’s a hotel room or a barn. It’s only home when he’s there.
~Genevieve Gorder
Of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.
~Zelda Popkin
Where the bedroom is wrong the whole house is wrong.
~Margaret Kennedy
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MUSIC:
She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one’s major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anonymous. It is not, after all, where you live.
~Toni Morrison
I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.
~David Levithan
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~Death Cab for Cutie: Brothers on a Hotel Bed (4:32) selves
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~Smith & Thell: Hotel Walls (3:34) questions of mortality
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~Clum Scott: Hotel Room (3:58) one mic, one take
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~Passenger: Hotel California (4:16) the voice, a surprisingly human finish
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~Rixton: Hotel Ceiling (4:40) when love goes missing
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~Double Echo: Darkroom (4:38) eerie
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~Fifth Harmony: I’m In Love With a Monster (3:35) campy
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~Delaney Jane: Hotel Room (3:43) when it hurts
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~Oliver Abbott: Room (1:32) minimalist animation, soothing
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I only really understand myself, what I’m really thinking and feeling, when I’ve talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel like a radio playing in an empty room.
~Anna Quindlen
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
~Jean Baudrillard
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I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
~Muhammad Ali
At my hotel room, my friend came over and asked to use the phone. I said Certainly. He said Do I need to dial 9 I say Yeah. Especially if it’s in the number. You can try four and five back to back real quick.
~Mitch Hedberg
This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.
~Henny Youngman
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Just following orders’ is no excuse unless you’re in the bedroom.
~Donna Lynn Hope
It’s okay to laugh in the bedroom so long as you don’t point
~Will Durst
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Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
~Tom Stoppard
A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, “Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!” That’s where it’s from.
~Carrie Fisher
Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.
~Paul Theroux
Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain’t. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.
~Esi Edugyan
I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room – and God damn it – died in a hotel room.
~Eugene O’Neill
Sitting in a hotel room just makes you sit and think about things.
~Nathan Sykes
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@Writers Platform
…Things!
Burn them, burn them! Make a beautiful
fire! More room in your heart for love,
for the trees! For the birds who own
nothing — the reason they can fly.
~Mary Oliver
But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
~Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
~Henry David Thoreau
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Exercise Prompt: room
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Of all the rooms in the house your bedroom is yours.
~Dorothy Draper
If you’re gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.
~Margot Kidder
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~BarTalk:
Eve’s Degree
Eyes on the horizon
She’s pedaling fast
To escape her past
No time for the treasure
No room for the pleasure
God’s gift to the orphan
Her present? The present
The future her fortune
Today, the present is prison
But ‘now’ is the reason
Expelled from the Garden
The wounds from our wars
Our sins form the scars
Not to be judged at the bar
But our school for the stars
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Goodbye
Green hills gone brown
Groom fields for a future
Make room for a new love
Like weeding the garden
Shedding old skin for new
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When someone
When someone flaunts and flagrantly disregards the laws of a land he has sworn to uphold
When someone places himself above truth in favor of his own needy ego
When someone places profits and greed above a Sermon’s Beatitudes
When someone disdains the centuries-old traditions of his own military
When someone finds no room in his agenda for more than a third of his people by color
When someone seeks to divide a country already ravaged by one civil war
When someone boasting intelligence hides that information
When someone makes decisions from the pocket of an adversarial power
If not a traitor by law, that someone is a traitor at heart
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Bequest: noun
When that someone dies
to make room for the next
leaves a legacy of woe
a roomful of debts
for those who followed him
to pay and pay
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Room With a View
Not courtroom, boardroom, cloakroom or clubroom
Not dining room, living room, bath or a bedroom
Not chat room or class room or internet newsroom
Not mudroom, not darkroom, mail room or ballroom
Not mushroom, a bridegroom, hotel or a sound room
Not legroom or headroom, nor music in a multiroom
Not introvert Daniel Boone needing more elbow room
But History’s the house that every human calls home
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When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness — or you can light a candle.
~Leonard Ravenhill
An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.
~Eric Cantona
If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.
~Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.
~Randy Pausch
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Harvested from: https://azquotes.com, https://goodreads.com
http://www.quotegarden.com, https://wiseoldsayings.com
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With special thanks to: https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com
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Curated by: Wordgrove
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