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Roomful Quotes (page 11)

Muhammad Ali quote: "I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in..."
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark. Muhammad Ali
Raymond Chandler quote: "Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to..."
Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead. Raymond Chandler
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. Haruki Murakami
A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved - the cloth laying for me in the dining room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows. Robert Louis Stevenson
Flavius's foot catches on a metal grate over a circular opening in the floor, and my stomach contracts when I think of why a room would need a drain. The stains of human misery that must have been hosed off these white tiles... Suzanne Collins
He went up to his room like a man who has been condemned to death. His mind was completely empty, and he was quite incapable of filling it with anything; but with his whole being he suddenly felt that he no longer possessed any freedom of thought or of will, and that everything had suddenly been decided once and for all. Fyodor Dostoevsky
By the time dusk fell, he was back in his room. The last of the daylight lay like fine ashes on the roof-tops. He did not light his lamp, but sat by the fireplace in the dark, seeking in the far distance of his past some vague memory of a love-affair, some recollection of a friendship, with which to soften the hard tyranny of isolation. Francois Mauriac
Muhammad Ali quote: "Service to others is the rent that we pay on earth for our..."
Service to others is the rent that we pay on earth for our room in heaven Muhammad Ali
This idea comes to you, you can see it, but to accomplish it you need what I call a "setup." For example, you may need a working shop or a working painting studio. You may beed a working music studio. Or a computer room where you can write something. It's crucial to have a setup, so that, at any given moment, when you get an idea, you have the place and the tools to make it happen. If you don't have a setup, there are many times when you get the inspiration, the idea, but you have no... David Lynch
Orson Scott Card quote: "Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you..."
Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present? Orson Scott Card
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch..."
One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room. P. G. Wodehouse
The gunslinger said, "I used to think the most terrible thing would be to reach the Dark Tower and find the top room empty. The God of all universes either dead or nonexistent in the first place. But now... suppose there is someone there, Eddie? Someone in charge who turns out to be..." He couldn't finish. Eddie could. "Someone who turns out to be just another bumhug? Is that it? God not dead but feeble-minded and malicious? Stephen King
when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light of a room, the minute of the day. Mouths reveal insecurity or smugness or any other point on the spectrum of character. For him they are the most intricate aspect of faces. He's never sure what an eye reveals. but he can read how mouths darken into callousness, suggest tenderness. One can often misjudge an eye from its reaction to a simple beam of sunlight. Michael Ondaatje
Give me a night by the fire, with a book in my hand, not that flickering rectangular son of a bitch that sits screaming in every living room in the land. Mark Helprin
Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! Virginia Woolf

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