Quotes About Messy Rooms

#1. How humid the heart, its messy rooms! We eat spicy food, sweat like wood and smolder like the coal mine that caught fire decades ago, yet still smokes more than my great-uncle who will not quit- or go out-

Kevin Young

#2. I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

Mallory Ortberg

#3. Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw a polysyllabic word he didn't like" Cartwright.

Ben Aaronovitch

#4. When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

Enoch Powell

#5. The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that.

Nora Roberts

#6. All my tips and tricks and woes and worries are gong to come tumbling out before you. I'm going to divulge them. What a juicy work that is, 'divulge.' Truth opening its petals. Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat.

Nicholson Baker

#7. Katharine: I can't keep up with you!
Tom: I don't want you to keep up. I love you for yourself.
- Death on the Family Tree

Patricia Sprinkle

#8. At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

Chelsea Hobbs

#9. I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in my life.

Wendell Berry

#10. Today, I'm going to believe that showing up is enough.

Brene Brown

#11. In every single poor country that I visited, I saw poor values and resentful attitudes. But in the rich, I saw delusional arrogance.

Robin Sacredfire

#12. Ty grunted. Guy with a gun, I'm your man. Big white tiger with teeth, it's every steak for himself.

Abigail Roux

#13. This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses.

Alexei Panshin

#14. I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

Diane Warren

#15. Any kind of self-concern, including a self-concern that leads one to shut down and give up (as, for example, a fear to fail) is itself a kind of pride. Feeling depressed that I am worse than others is as much an act of pride as feeling myself better. Both are acts of self-concern.

James E. Ferrell