Rooms Quotes

• I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

  Erma Bombeck

  Time, Children, Views

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• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Education, Philosophy

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• I had a dream that my dad passed away and that Jesus came into the room and he was basically knocking on my door, saying, 'Hey, you need to find out more about me.' So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church, and that's when I got saved.

  Russell Wilson

  Dream, Jesus, Morning

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• Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Sympathy, Baby

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• My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

  Gary Busey

  Party, Kids, Dark

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Parenting, Swag

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• You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  New York Times, May 21, 1986.

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• The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  ""Even now I have to pinch myself we are together": Bruce Forsyth on 30 years of wedded bliss". www.mirror.co.uk. January 12, 2013.

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• We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Learning, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• My mother has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room where she is being kept comfortable. Thank you for your continued support.

  Melissa Rivers

  Mother, Support, Care

  "Daughter: Joan Rivers leaves ICU, 'kept comfortable' in private room" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2014.

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• The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

  Mary Oliver

  Doe, Lectures, Building

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can feel the heavy thump, thump, thump of its feverish body inside and I open my mouth, not to speak, but to let the bird out so I can breathe.

  Han Nolan

  Bird, Mouths, Body

  Han Nolan (2010). “Crazy”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was however; there she was.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Clever, People

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.177, Wordsworth Editions

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• You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can't dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home.

  Tobias Wolff

  Home, Boys, Light

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• My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses

  John Keats

  Mind, Body, Window

  Jane Campion, John Keats (2009). “So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne”, p.24, Penguin UK

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• I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.

  James Frey

  Memories, Thinking, Failing

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.16, Anchor

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• Honey lamb, there are a lot of things in this world I feel insecure about. Religion. Our national economic policies. What color socks to wear with a blue suit. But I've got to tell you that my performance in that hotel room last night isn't one of them.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Insecure, Night, Blue

  FaceBook post by Susan Elizabeth Phillips from Feb 17, 2016

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• It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Sparrows, Tiny

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.109, Macmillan

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• It's not a loup cage, you know,' I told her. 'It's a holding cell. Or safe room. or secure room. I don't think Jim ever settled on a term he could live with.' 'Aha. It's a loup cage.' Andrea cleared her throat. 'I touched it with my finger and it hurt. Is that in case of marital problems?

  Ilona Andrews

  Hurt, Thinking, Cells

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• I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.

  Jennifer Egan

  Combination, Property, Knows

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.134, Anchor

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• Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.

  Jane Green

  Pain, Heart, Fabric

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• In this room we understand why this war might be fought...it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other--no matter what their species.

  Deborah Harkness

  War, Two, Might

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.464, Penguin

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• She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

  Ann Patchett

  Saving, Persons, Ifs

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• He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Marching On, Mountain

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.536, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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