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Quotes About Room

A fool takes in everything he comes across, so that there is no room for anything useful to find a place
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It was a singular bedroom, with its high walls of brown volumes, but there could be no more agreeable furniture to a bookworm like myself, and there is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. I assured him that I could desire no more charming chamber, and no more congenial surroundings.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
By all means. The first three sensible words that you have uttered since you entered this room, Watson
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
This room is not well adapted as a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a portion of our carpet.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I found the other two in Bran's room, and one look at their faces made it abundantly clear that they felt no better than I did. Not that the Marquis had a red nose or a thick voice--he even looked aristocratic when sick, I thought with disgust.
~ Sherwood Smith
But I'll still be betrothed. Some fun if he's a snob, and most of those court boys are snobs. And what if Uncle says I have to live with the boy's family? At least if he joins ours, I can stick him in the farthest room and pretend he isn't here.
~ Sherwood Smith
Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was; to shed assumptions, even certainties.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Beneath the trees it was not dark as a room is dark when the lights are put out, the artificial darkness which comes when an artificial light is gone; it was the deep natural darkness which comes with a forsaking of natural light.
~ Shirley Jackson
I say, Watson,' he whispered, 'would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?' 'Not in the least,' I answered in astonishment. 'Ah, that's lucky,' he said, and not another word would he utter that night.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.
~ Jay Bell
Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom,Far from all resort of mirth,Save the cricket on the hearth.
~ John Milton
In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.
~ John Nichols
Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport — in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars.
~ John Selwyn Gummer
I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned.
~ John Swartzwelder
What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit.
~ John Updike
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
~ John Updike
QYou can not change the color of a room using the same color paint.
~ John W Clark
My parents threw out the diary when they found it. They didn't want me keeping secrets in my room, never mind that a room and a girl will keep secrets even without pages to store them.
~ Ellen Datlow
It was blue. All of it: rugs, hangings, curtains ... 'This room looks as if someone vomited the sky,' Layla said.
~ Eloisa James
Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room.
~ baldwin james vi
her anger a third presence in the room
~ Barbara Bretton
The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
~ Barbara Corcoran