Quotes About Room

Does anyone in this room remember they're in the military?" Griffen demanded. "Occasionally," Mack said, "when we get bad intel.

She needs to rest, Joshua. I will bring her to you later. That's all right, Aidan, Joshua said, man to man. She needs to be in bed more than I do. Aidan grinned at him and took her out of the room, heedless of her squirming. He is right, you know, he murmured against her neck. You do need to be in bed. My bed.

As soon as I entered the room, he cried out, without any other greeting: You've gotten very fat! It was his way of disarming, I thought, any horror I might have felt at his own pudding-like rotundity, which had trebled since I had seen him last.

Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid, abnormally heavy and dangerously sharp.

The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room, then gone with the light.

he'd replace the window, but the kid was sleeping in his room from now until she was thirty and married to a huge guy with ninja skills.

As her vision cleared, Kira saw the ruins of the supply room. The grasper was a mangled mess, but several of its tentacles still waved with weak urgency, blobs of orange ichor oozing from its wounds. Carr had been thrown against the shelving. Shards of bones stuck out from his arms and legs. The orphaned piece of the xeno lay against the bulkhead across from her: a slash of torn fibers draped across the crumpled panels.

It was an IBM machine, archaic now but gaudy then. The university owned it, in effect, and it lay inside a room that none but the machine's professional caretakers could enter during the day. But Alsing found out that a student could just walk into that room at night and play with the computer. Alsing didn't drink much and he never took any other drugs. "I was a midnight programmer," he confessed.

This is Teenage madness. Trapped in a room knowing there's more outside. Trapped listening to a teacher talk about Hemingway as if each sentence and word had mythical importance. Trapped knowing she is in the room with me.

Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin.

People in Hollywood found it as extraordinary to meet someone who had been in the same room with Hitler as Lanny found it to be in the same room with Charles Laughton and Bette Davis.

On the white wall at the end of the room was a large oil painting of a European port, done in reds and yellows and blues. It was in slapdash modern style; the lady had painted it herself and signed it. She had given it pride of place in her main room. Yet she hadn't thought it worth the trouble of taking away.

You couldn't listen to sweet songs about injustice unless you expected justice and received it much of the time. You couldn't sing songs about the end of the world unless-like the other people in that room, so beautiful with such simple things: African mats on the floor and African hangings on the wall and spears and masks-you felt that the world was going on and you were safe in it. How easy it was, in that room, to make those assumptions!

In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child.

Nothing is so charming as the ruddy tints that happiness can shed around a garret room.

Fear was a mansion, one room after another, connected by endless hallways.

talking to each other in Russian, remembering the ghosts in the room. In words and looks and smiles, we honor them at last.

He's made a mistake in coming here tonight. He'd wanted to see a room filled with ruffly knickknacks and lacy gewgaws. A room like any other, to indicate that she was a woman like any other.

The truth of my circumstance climbs into the bed with me and takes up too much room.

room and went into her father's—which was

While she respected his intellect, sometimes his inability to err could be stifling. It left no room for Inès to have thoughts or opinions that differed from his.

A note on averages: a few times I've been in rooms with a hundred ordinary people and my acquaintance Warren Buffett, which meant the average person's net worth in those rooms was nearly $1 billion.

Dewar 's rule in his laboratory was as absolute as that of a Pharaoh, and he showed deference to no one except the ghost of Faraday whom he met occasionally all night in the gallery behind the lecture room.