Workroom Quotes

#1. I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to another and the first thing you know he has a stuffed chair and is fast asleep in it.

E.B. White

#2. The workroom radio, tuned to FM 88.9, emitted Muddy Waters's throaty warbling. A rez station, WOJB did its best to hit every level of musical taste. Absolute bite-ya-in-the-ass blues was aired only during the wee hours.

Tracker's favorite time and music.

Mardi Oakley Medawar

#3. Maybe I should lie down on a table in the workroom and wait to see if he welds something to me." "I think that's the way most great love stories begin.

Leigh Bardugo

#4. The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

Roald Dahl

#5. I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.

Yaya Han

#6. An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply
low rental.

Jane Addams

#7. I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

Thomas A. Edison

#8. I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.

Jaye Davidson

#9. I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

Kevin Barry

#10. My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away.
Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?

Jim Butcher

#11. The worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces all the time, you can lose traction. And that affects the choice of things you get offered.

Joanne Whalley

#12. Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it.

George Carlin

#13. Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

Ann Aguirre

#14. The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

George Stillman Hillard

#15. Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#16. Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.

Sidney Lumet

#17. Isaiah pauses. "It's Beth. If she knew what her mom is mixed up in, she'd try to fix it, and then she'd end up in trouble that I couldn't fix."
This is the kind of guy Isaiah is: loyal to the end and a fixer. Even if the person he loves doesn't want to be helped.

Katie McGarry

#18. I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.

Janet McTeer

#19. The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'

Craig Kilborn

#20. The house is a factory.

Dave Eggers

#21. I will love again, Olivia, you will hurt forever. What you've done is ... You are worthless because you make yourself that way. You will remember me every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away.

Tarryn Fisher

#22. Well, there's no monkey on my back,

Kim Clijsters