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Quotes About Room

To give too much room to the latent feeling which is rather common in these days among the unappreciated, that because some remarkably successful men are fools, all remarkably unsuccessful men are geniuses.' 'Pretty
~ Thomas Hardy
The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
~ Thomas Harris
Footsteps out of the room. The side and rattle of a kitchen drawer. Lounds had covered many murders committed in kitchens where things are handy. Police reporting can change forever your view of kitchens…
~ Thomas Harris
The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room full of dark stains drying.
~ Thomas Harris
The room smelled of wood smoke and rosemary. Silver candelabra
~ Thomas Harris
The room smelled of wood smoke and rosemary. Silver candelabra, buried in the garden during the war
~ Thomas Harris
The urge to throw up his excellent breakfast was, he sensed, to be suppressed, for he suspected it meant that all his cunning body was doing was making room to digest the horrors of Kraksua Street.
~ Thomas Keneally
Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited.
~ Thomas Merton
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
~ Thomas Pynchon
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. This may have nothing to do with the acts we have committed, or the humors we do go in and out of. It may be only the room--a cube--having no persuasive powers of its own. The room simply is. To occupy it, and find a metaphor there for memory, is our own fault.
~ Thomas Pynchon
You're so sick, Oedipa, she told herself, or the room, which knew.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Rays, boys, rays," chuckled Scientific Officer Counterfly, busy with his photographic calibrations, "the wonders of our age, and rest assured none of 'em strangers to the spectrum of this fabled Italian sunlight. Just wait till we're back in the developing room, and you shall see a thing or two then, by Garibaldi, that you shall.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Why? Why use the room as introduction to an apologia? Because the room, though windowless and cold at night, is a hothouse. Because the room is the past, though it has no history of its own. Because, as the physical being-there of a bed or horizontal plane determines what we call love; as a high place must exist before God's word can come to a flock and any sort of religion begin; so must there be a room, sealed against the present, before we can make any attempt to deal with the past.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Riot was her element, as surely as this dark room almost creeping with amassed objects. The street and the hothouse; in V. were resolved, by some magic, the two extremes. She frightened him.
~ Thomas Pynchon
You're not very fond of your room by day. You never think about it. You're in and out, the door opens and slams, the cupboard creaks. You sit down on the side of your bed, change your shoes and dash out again. A dive down to the glass, two pins in your hair, powder your nose and off again. But now–at night time- it's suddenly dear to you. It's a darling little funny room. It's yours. Oh, what a joy it is to own things!
~ Katherine Mansfield
Make room for love and it always comes. Make a nest for love and it always settles. Make a home for the beloved and he will find his way there. —Marianne Williamson, A Woman's Worth
~ Katherine Woodward Thomas
There's an art to life. Some people have talent for it. A boundless hope illuminates them. Where others are vague and tentative, they have only sharp, clear edges. Energy soars; lights burn brighter when they enter a room.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
With a flourish of his scepter, Mor'ded filled the long great room with sparkling white fire, the flames harmlessly bouncing off the wigs of the men and the silk skirts of the ladies. The courtiers laughed and wove their bodies through the magic, and Dominic watched them with hooded eyes until his father grew tired of amusing his playthings. When
~ Kathryne Kennedy
What are you two doing in here?" Mike Iglehart wore an eye-blistering white lab coat and a surly expression. "This isn't some teenage make-out room." My face flushed scarlet. "Excuse me?" "We were using the computer!" Ben barked. "That's it.
~ Kathy Reichs
I ate with Wolf in the Situation Room. The pizza was good. The conversation did nothing to brighten my mood.
~ Kathy Reichs
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
~ Keith Richards
He pivoted, gaze following me as I crossed to the shower and turned on the cold water, so it would drown out our conversation without steaming up the room. Great," he muttered."Now they're going to think we're showering together. Maybe we can just tell them we were washing off the crawl space dirt and trying to conserve water.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Later: Woke up at 3:00 am and crept into Davids room. I talked to David about the ghost who came to live in his body, the sad soul who was taken back into the earth. David's trophies are dusty again.
~ Kelly Easton
Their glowed as brightly as any candle in the room.
~ Cameron Dokey