Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink.
Michael Ian Black
Related By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the... RALPH MARSTON There is nothing more gorgeous than being in a room with a play or watching someone on a stage delin... DAEL ORLANDERSMITH Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins! HIROMU ARAKAWA Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music. PAUL MCCARTNEY For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying t... PICO IYER Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebe... SAM KEAN My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it... DIRK BENEDICT For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more th... WALLACE STEVENS I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with... SYLVIA PLATH I had five, huge, big black binders. They were heavy, and I was hunched over carrying them in. DENNIS PHILLIPS I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal, DREW BARRYMORE Nothing would make me happier than sitting in the bleachers at Fitch watching Jesse graduate some da... ERIC BENKER Many retailers ended up looking more like Scrooge than Santa. JODIE BERNSTEIN How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something mor... WALLACE STEVENS Ian lives five minutes away from me, ... We always get together and have dinner. Ian is like a broth... BRIAN GREEN Ian lives five minutes away from me, ... We always get together and have dinner. Ian is like a broth... BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN It was just my reality, to never have a boy be interested in me romantically for more than one rando... SIOBHAN VIVIAN My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all. MARCIA CLARK Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. I... BRANDON MULL What's more fun than sitting in your living room in funny glasses? GLENN GORDON CARON When the Illuminati thought of their name, they were hiding in a darkened room with one candle. ANTHONY T.HINCKS It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches. ADAM BROWN Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, ... MICHAEL CAINE Every time I ask someone, 'What does a Saturday morning mean to you?' ... They all tell me the same ... DAVID ROTH ... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a micro... DAVID WONG Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has sev... BRUCE ROBINSON three guys sitting in a room talking. ... Just that simple. Nothing complicated. BILL HUGHES Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily... MALCOLM GLADWELL It was a hell of a defensive game and it started up front with those guys. My hat goes off to them, ... NICK FERGUSON Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who ... JANE AUSTEN I'd rather get a block than a kill. It's more satisfying for me. JONATHAN CHARETTE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I once took a poo in the woods while hunched over like an animal. It was AWESOME. DREW BARRYMORE You've got to put me on a different scale than the little black preacher sitting over there that's s... EDDIE LONG Was he my home, then, my homecoming? You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well tog... ANDRé ACIMAN It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watch... DAVID ARCHULETA I'd be so happy to be sitting at my desk, eating a Pop-Tart and keying away, ... Nothing would pleas... RAY BURROWS An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. ... DARYNDA JONES I would love nothing more than me and my family getting green cards, going to L.A. for a year, sitti... KIM DOTCOM All I could do was pump my Michael Jordan fist, ... You know, when Michael Jordan hit that last shot... RONALD ALLEN Nothing, literally nothing, makes me feel like I'm back to my body more than Pilates. KATE HUDSON When you're sitting in the meetings, you have to keep telling yourself there is not one single perso... DIANE E. INBODY I WOKE IN A BED. In a room. In an inn. More than that was not immediately clear to me. It felt exact... PATRICK ROTHFUSS My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what woul... CARL SANDBURG There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement wi... MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement wi... LOU HOLTZ Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room. PATRICIA HEATON Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding i... ANONYMOUS Nothing feels more satisfying than to say the truth to someone who hates to hear it. OUSSAMA HEDHLI My life is a struggle. VOLTAIRE As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a gr... JASON REITMAN Shanna, sweet Shanna. How can I tell you what you mean to me? When I saw you at the ball it was as i... KERRELYN SPARKS I am working with Ian Frazer and trying single wicket bowling and other new things to become a bette... HARBHAJAN SINGH It's like watching a movie in someone's living room. BARBARA PERGAMENT I am nothing more than a girl from the projects born of a single teenage-mother nurtured with love a... KIERRA C.T. BANKS He wanted to be a great warrior and a good mentor more than anything else, but it seemed painfully c... ERIN HUNTER For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a... TOM HANKS Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bar... JASON ROBERT BROWN I experience the same level of intense concentration watching a thrilling tennis match as I do hunch... GREGOR COLLINS I just like sitting at home, chilling and watching a movie. NIALL HORAN Being a common laborer all my life at poor and underpaid jobs, I had worked with more black men, kno... CHARLES BUKOWSKI ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single,... MELISSA LEE-HOUGHTON Waking up to a smell is a lot more satisfying than waking up to a noise. Instead of barging in uninv... ADI ALSAID He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the... E.M. FORSTER There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing... EDIE BRICKELL When she took me into the room, she asked if I could fill the space. I said, 'certainly,' and we hav... KAREN ROSSI Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom... JHONEN VáSQUEZ The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used ... STEPHEN JAY GOULD Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY Memory is more incredible than ink ANITA LOOS Memory is more indelible than ink. ANITA LOOS There's no room for me in your world; It's time I stopped pretending. But nothing hurts me... MARGO T. ROSE It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to b... SHEILA E. I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be ... MAX REGER The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find... JODI LIVON I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge. EDGAR WRIGHT It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a si... JAMES E. GUNN There is nothing more interesting in Life than Watching your thoughts taking the Shape of Actions ASHISH SOPHAT For me to be in a room with those soldiers standing over there -- it's almost like you're there with... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rath... GRAHAM COXON A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. JAMES KELLER A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. FATHER JAMES KELLER A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. UNKNOWN A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle PROVERB I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watc... PATSY KENSIT In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, t... DANIEL TAMMET Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, b... JASMINE WARGA I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it. DIANE PAULUS many people don't like baggage in a relationship, but I love single mum's, they have more room for a... CRAIG DEARING To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color ... X. J. KENNEDY 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON And then we jerked to a stop. Jared was blocking the exit. "Have you lost your mind, Ian?" he asked,... STEPHENIE MEYER Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's tha... ADAM MCKAY The audience will feel like Chita is talking to them personally. It's not like a play. It's like thi... 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