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Quotes About Rooms

I've got one more record. - Have you heard So Long, Letty? I suppose you have.' 'Honestly, you don't understand - I haven't heard a thing.' Nor known, nor smelt, nor tasted he might have added; only hot cheeked girls in hot secret rooms. The young maidens he had known at New Haven in 1914 kissed men saying 'There!' hands at the man's chest to push him away. Now there was this scarcely saved waif of disaster bringing him the essence of a continent...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.
~ Daniel Espinosa
Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.
~ Robin Williams
When professors expect a few dozen students and hundreds show up, it's a mixed blessing. While it's a testament to their popularity, it also means they have to scramble to interview and hire more teaching fellows, schedule rooms, and order lab supplies.
~ Parker Conrad
Guests wishing to stay longer should be warned that their rooms may explode.
~ Robert Muchamore
If you looked round the rooms, you wouldn't think there was anything missing. But it's like one of those Spot the difference cartoons in a puzzle book. The changes are so subtle, yet glaringly obvious once you've seen them. A photo missing here, a cup there. A heart a bit more broken than it was before.
~ Liz Kessler
She kept wandering in and out of the rooms, wondering where she had put things. She went downstairs into the basement for no reason at all except that it amused her to own a basement. It also amused her to own a tree. Her parents, in Maryland, had been very pleased that one of their children had at last been able to afford real estate, and when she closed on the house they sent her flowers with a congratulations card.
~ Lorrie Moore
and he sat on all their laps one after the other, because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house-mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in
~ Rudyard Kipling
There are secret rooms inside us," I had said to my therapist. "A relatively benign construct," he said, and so I did not bother with the rest of it. That in my house we never left them, that in my house my mother and father preferred them to everywhere else.
~ Alice Sebold
you must wear clothes, you must honor your teachers, you must not attack fellow students' dorm rooms with chain saws.
~ E. Lockhart
Those funny old days, when men went for change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms! And
~ E.M. Forster
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
~ Edward Albee
I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.
~ Edward Burns
Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated." from "Village 113
~ Anthony Doerr
Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated.
~ Anthony Doerr
All the next day the pleasure of his success lingers in Werner's blood, the memory of how it seemed almost holy to him to walk beside big Volkheimer back to the castle, down through the frozen trees, past the rooms of sleeping boys ranked like gold bars in strongrooms...
~ Anthony Doerr
Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.
~ Barbara Ann Radnofsky
She went through the quick regimen of calmness—the two deep breaths, the ritual thought, then: "When I assign rooms, is there anything special I should reserve for you?" "You must teach me someday how you do that," he said, "the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing." "It's a female thing," she said.
~ Frank Herbert
I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.
~ Burt Ward
Crowded rooms and lonesome tunes and very little sky.
~ Rod McKuen
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
~ Roman Coppola
sons perdidos à procura de perdidas cores. corto o ar e nado através de quartos sem paredes
~ Anais Nin
rooms, easy to heat. Now there was one L-shaped open-plan
~ Ann Cleeves
I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
~ Garry Hynes