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Quotes About Room

The first thing he saw in the small room was a large clock on the wall which already showed ten o'clock.
~ Franz Kafka
The smoke from Mr Green's cigar, a present from Pollunder, of a thickness that his father would occasionally affirm existed, but had probably never witnessed with his own eyes, spread throughout the room, and carried Green's influence into nooks and corners in which he would personally never set foot.
~ Franz Kafka
Jeder Mensch trägt ein Zimmer in sich.
~ Franz Kafka
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
~ Samuel Johnson
At Wimbledon there is a golf putting machine to play on in the locker room.
~ Tim Henman
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
~ Patricia Cornwell
I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.
~ Anne Enright
They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.
~ Johnny Vegas
My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond the two windows, was a little corner where my books were kept, and other thing - my watercolors and so on. Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise.
~ Gunter Grass
I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.
~ Jill Clayburgh
The 'West Wing' writers room would not have come up with the idea of running a presidential campaign in which an African-American gets elected. Because the realism view would have said that's not possible.
~ Lawrence O'Donnell
The Republican Party will never again be a majority party until we regain the confidence of the American people. I believe there is room for disagreement within the party, and we should not have litmus tests.
~ Todd Tiahrt
The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe.
~ Phil Anselmo
The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.
~ Bruce Jay Friedman
The one thing you have to address with Randy Moss is not a conditioning thing. It's not an age thing. It needs to be addressed. I believe it's the elephant in the room. It's that thing called quit. And Randy, not like any other superstar I've met, he has more quit in him than any of those other players.
~ Cris Carter
I'm quite contradictory - a bit OCD, but quite untidy. I have piles of stuff everywhere, but they make sense to me. And I'll find the one thing in the room that's my boyfriend's, and complain about him leaving it out.
~ Kimberley Nixon
Frank's really different from everything I've done. Maybe the one thing that's the same, and the thing that I tend to do, is that I think I can create an intimacy with the characters, like a sense of presence with the people in the film, and that's what I tried to do in 'Room' as well.
~ Lenny Abrahamson
In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.
~ David Wenham
I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.
~ Jill Clayburgh
I perform in theaters, international stages with people screaming for me, and then I go back to my hotel room, take all my makeup off, and I'm alone.
~ Violet Chachki
The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.
~ Jonathan Frid
What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.
~ Mark Haddon
I got an extra room. No problem. It's a bad night." Predictably, her eyes widened. "It's okay. It's got a lock." "I didn't mean..." "It's okay. I'm kind of scary-looking. I know it." "No. It's just—" "Don't worry about it. I know how I look. Works great on guys. They back right off." He gave her a small smile, not showing any teeth. "You
~ Robyn Carr
If you want to say good-night to Rosie before you go, now's the time. Her light is going off in…" She looked at her watch. "Fifteen minutes." "Fine," he said, standing. "Did I do all right today? I mean, she didn't run screaming from the room or anything." "You did very well, Sean. I'm impressed." He smiled a small smile, asking himself why that felt so good coming from her.
~ Robyn Carr