„Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people … or find a different room..“

„And that's the key to George W. Bush: It's that he wants to be the smartest person in the room. But in order to be the smartest person in the room, you kinda have to fill that room with a lot of dim bulbs. And that's where we get the Alberto Gonzaleses, and the Harriet Mierses, and the "you're-doing-a-heck-of-a-job-Brownie"'s.“

—  Bill Maher American stand-up comedian 1956

The Decider (21 July 2007)

„You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.“

—  Henry Rollins American singer-songwriter 1961

Source: Solipsist

„We’re always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it bites deepest whenever others are around.“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

Source: The Guardian

„Never be the brightest person in the room. … We're all imperfect.“

—  James D. Watson American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. 1928

James Watson: How we discovered DNA, TED talk (February 2005) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HgL5OFip-0

„People who are serious about something always make room for it in their schedules. If prayer is important to you, then you'll find time to do it.“

—  Bill Hybels American writer 1951

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

„The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.“

—  Philip Roth, livre The Human Stain

Source: The Human Stain

„I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person — as the people in this room will attest.“

—  Janeane Garofalo comedian, actress, political activist, writer 1964

standup performance, date unknown[citation needed]
Standup routines

„If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.“

—  Lois McMaster Bujold, Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Source: Young Miles

„At midnight they can come into your room and take you away. They can put a black hood on you, take you to a secret place and interrogate you, trying to stop what you’re doing. They threaten people, your family, saying: 'Your children won’t find jobs.“

—  Ai Weiwei Chinese concept artist 1957

2010-, China’s Censorship Can Never Defeat the Internet, 2012

„You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.“

—  Will Rogers American humorist and entertainer 1879 - 1935

„Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are the more selective you become.“

—  Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943

„People change, but only if you give them room to do it.“

—  Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

„There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.“

—  Sylvia Plath, livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 2

„Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.“

—  Susan Sontag, livre In America

Source: In America

„I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.“

—  Lisa Kleypas American writer 1964

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

„That is the devilish thing about poverty, the ever-recurrent thing - loneliness. Day after day with never an intelligent person to talk to; night after night back to your godless room, always alone. Perhaps it sounds rather fun if you are rich and sought-after; but how different it is when you do it from necessity!“

—  George Orwell, livre Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 4

„I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.“

—  E.M. Forster, livre Maurice

Source: Maurice

„Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.“

—  Gabrielle Zevin American writer 1977

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

„It's you, so I feel that a person who will understand you, a person who will find you is waiting out there. So just keep on trying your best.“

—  Natsuki Takaya Manga artist 1973