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Quotes About Room

Most nights she went with the moon, and when it was round she stayed in my biggest bedroom and wouldn't answer the thing that asked her to let it out (let you out from where? let me out from the small, the hot, the take me out of the fire i am ready i am hard like the stones you ate, bitter like those husks) the moonlight striped her, marked out places where the whispering thing would slip through and she would unfold.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
The stormy night turned the window of Lucy's room into a door;
~ Helen Oyeyemi
There was . . . a mirror that crawled across the wall in a wooden frame. When I go into Miri's room all I can see, all I can think of is that enormous mirror, like a lake on the wall.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
If her fingers touched the photograph it was hers. If it was out of her reach then it belonged to the room.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of success reached Kutuzov's cheerless staff with the galloping advent of all these brilliant young men.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He got up from the table and went through to the study which adjoined the dining-room. It was a rather small, comfortably untidy room, and the greater part of its walls were lined with built-in bookshelves.
~ Leslie Charteris
I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the top off and swallow it down.' You know, confidence has to be earned.
~ Paul Keating
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
~ Harlan Coben
I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It's very difficult to audition for comedy in the vacuum of a small room, but it's the only way most do it.
~ Allison Jones
I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
~ Patrick M. Byrne
I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.
~ Antony Beevor
The kitchen is the most valuable room in the home, so a smart kitchen reno will bring great return on investment.
~ Scott McGillivray
In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.
~ Jasper Fforde
The room didn't contain a large jar as Landen had suggested, but rather a human-size sarcophagus made out of Tupperware to ensure freshness.
~ Jasper Fforde
The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room.
~ Jasper Fforde
Your red dress,' she said, and laughed. But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.
~ Jean Rhys
The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.
~ Jean Rhys
THe room was large and low-ceilinged, the striped wallpaper faded to inoffensiveness. A huge dark wardrobe faced a huge dark bed. The rest of the furniture shrank away into corners, battered and apologetic.
~ Jean Rhys
To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love
~ Jeanette Winterson
When you finish work, practically everybody in that place is going to watch a movie at night anyway. They're tired. They have dinner. They go up to their room. They're watching TV.
~ Wes Anderson
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
~ Willa Cather
I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.
~ Emma Donoghue
I always bring divining rods when I'm on tour because you can change energy streams by moving furniture around your hotel room.
~ Chris de Burgh