Top 40 Quotes About Dormitory
#1. When Constance was born, Aunt Glo named her after the dormitory she lived in at college: Constance Hall.
Sheri Reynolds
#2. OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
Ambrose Bierce
#3. At that age I thought apartments were built specifically to house the single or the newly single, a divorce dormitory of sorts.
Carrie Brownstein
#4. The first evening in an inn, though, I had remained awake for a good half-hour, fascinated by the remarkable variety of noises the male respiratory apparatus could produce. An entire dormitory full of student nurses couldn't come close.
Diana Gabaldon
#5. Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?
Lenny Bruce
#6. I try not to walk out of the room too fast. When the dormitory door closes behind me, I touch a hand to my forehead and grin a little. Awkwardness aside, it is nice to be liked.
Veronica Roth
#7. They reached their familiar, circular dormitory with its five four-poster beds, and Harry, looking around, felt he was home at last
J.K. Rowling
#8. In the dormitory window one night, Frederick rest his forehead against the glass. "I hate them. I hate them for that.
Anthony Doerr
#9. I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off ... I was so large by then that, in the heat, my thighs chafed together and bled. I was very unhappy, and yet no one ever asked me how I felt.
Marcus Brigstocke
#10. If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.
Stephen Leacock
#11. About how you survived when You-Know-Who tried to kill you and how he disappeared and everything and how you've still got a lightning scar on your forehead" (his eyes raked Harry's hairline) "and a boy in my dormitory said if I develop the film in the right potion, the pictures'll move.
J.K. Rowling
#12. After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.
James Tobin
#13. Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town.
Helen Mirren
#15. In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, 'Where is my food?'
Liang Chow
#16. He lived in this dream world more than in the real one. The real world: classroom, courtyard, library, dormitory, and chapel were only the surface, a quivering film over the dream-filled super-real world of images.
Hermann Hesse
#17. The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.
William H. Whyte
#18. I don't know how, but the dormitory smells like sleep - like laundry and shoes and night sweats and morning coffee.
Veronica Roth
#19. Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#20. A dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in a concrete box?
Nathan Hill
#21. I was just sitting on my bed in a dormitory room, and I started writing. The thing that was magic about it was that once you put down one word, you could cross it out. I figured that out right away. I put down 'mountain,' and then I'd go, 'No - 'valley.' That's better.'
James Tate
#22. Harry ran upstairs to their dark dormitory. He pulled out the cloak and then his eyes fell on the flute Hagrid had given him for Christmas. He pocketed it to use on Fluffy - he didn't feel much like singing.
J.K. Rowling
#23. The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
Billy Sunday
#24. It's sunny today, the light glowing through the white curtains. I don't know how, but the dormitory smells like sleep-like laundry and shoes and night sweats and morning coffee. Some of the beds are made, and some still have rumpled sheets bunched up at the bottom or the side.
Veronica Roth
#25. The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.
Spiro T. Agnew
#26. I'll be here when you return."
"I fixed my door. You'll need a key."
"I'll take good care of it."
"What if I won't give it to you?"
"Then I'll break the door again."
"This dormitory makes me feel so safe.
Stephanie Perkins
#27. It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own.
Bill Bryson
#28. My Christmas prayer is that I would remain close to God, and He close to me. With all the suffering in the world today, there is the temptation to fall to fear ... we need to be near the Lord.. we need the Hope of Christmas.
Don Moen
#29. I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players, another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.
Donald Dunn
#31. Whatever your pleasure, belief, sorrow or triumph ... we are all human and we are all constantly facing some sort of brokenness. Of the heart, of finances, of family, of dreams ... it is real pain and it can't be ignored.
Hayley Williams
#32. Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.
John Ciardi
#33. The pumpkin is a uniquely American plant, widely regarded as one of the most magical plants in all the world.
Seth Adam Smith
#34. Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese?
Rick Riordan
#35. Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I really wonder why XML does not.
Erik Naggum
#36. I raise Reed's crushed, gray feather into the air. With my dying breath, I utter a single word in Angel, Champion.
Amy A. Bartol
#37. I felt like a champion because I was figuring shit out. I was a doer and a getter-doner, and it was okay to be identified by the neighbors as the little lady who had a dump truck of manure delivered, a load that made the entire neighborhood smell like a dairy barn for weeks.
Dee Williams
#38. Living with animals can be a wonderful experience, especially if we choose to learn the valuable lessons animals teach through their natural enthusiasm, grace, resourcefulness, affection and forgiveness.
Richard Pitcairn
#39. What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
Oprah Winfrey
#40. If you're looking to make someone happy, maybe you should think about what they'd want, not what you want them to want.
Nicole Williams
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