The Room Quotes

#1. Angua sighed and stepped into the room behind the little museum. It was like the back rooms of museums everywhere, full of junk and things there is no room for on the shelves and also items of doubtful provenance, such as coins dated '52 BC'.

Terry Pratchett

#2. The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from.

Raymond Carver

#3. He's going to bite me!
Instantly the last light in the room fades out as if announcing the reign of darkness.

Poppet

#4. If you're in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

George Clooney

#5. He giggled and sniggered. He would have laughed out loud but he didn't have the room.

Douglas Adams

#6. So what was the hardest part?' Mr Gopnik said.
'I'm sorry?'
'Of working for William Traynor. It sounds like quite a challenge.'
I hesitated. The room was suddenly very quiet. 'Letting him go.' I said. And found myself unexpectedly biting back tears.

Jojo Moyes

#7. Weirdly, all the wood, dark walls, moody lighting, and oxblood leather makes the room kind of soft and romantic ... I know it's anything but; this is Christian's version of soft and romantic.

E.L. James

#8. If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. 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

#10. Help me', he said, like a lost child.
Go to Hell, the room respectfully replied; and for the first time in his life, he knew exactly what that meant.

Clive Barker

#11. Swampy [ Marsh] and I live as far away from each other as we possibly can and still work together. But we just always felt like we were funnier when we were in the room together than we are when we're separate.

Dan Povenmire

#12. I love the way you make me feel when you walk into the room, when you look at me.

Kyra Davis

#13. Fear enters the room and sits down in a chair and with a polite smile asks to open negotiations.

John Scalzi

#14. You're old. You're senile. You're too calm about this. Something must be wrong ... "
"Wonderful. I'll pull out my hair and chase butterflies around the room.

John Grisham

#15. Welcome, Bell said, not rising from a large wooden chair that had been placed in the center of the room like it was a throne. Would that make him the king of sewer rats?

Kalayna Price

#16. She had never before suffered from claustrophobia, but the room seemed too small to contain Luke's elation, and she felt that she could be swept up and lost in the tempest of his delight.

Esther Spurrill Jones

#17. Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room.

Jeff Bezos

#18. Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

Joel Edgerton

#19. Like all the other alphas in the room, they sat in complete stillness, erections aching against the front of their trousers. The

Leta Blake

#20. She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.

Kate Morton

#21. I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.

Jenny Downham

#22. We could've done this anywhere, but I wanted you to see me, to see this," he said, gesturing at the room. "I wanted you to know where I come from, what I am under the choices I make.

Kim Harrison

#23. My palms began sweating as I took in the enormous, opulent study. Tomes lined each wall like the soldiers of a silent army, and couches, desks, and rich rugs were scattered throughout the room.

Sarah J. Maas

#24. He shifts and my eyes shatter into thousands of pieces that ricochet around the room, capturing a million snapshots, a million moments in time. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.

Tahereh Mafi

#25. What's up with you and that new guy anyway?" Simon watched David leaving the room with contempt on his face.
"Nothing."
"Nothing or none of my business?"
"Both." I placed my hand on my chin over the table and pretended he wasn't talking to me.

Nely Cab

#26. He smacked the heel of his hand against his forhead, as if that could knock the mental picture out of his head. Hell, he though irritably, he didn't want to knock the image just out of his head. He wanted to send it clear across the room and out the window.

Julia Quinn

#27. Oh, my God! Gwen suddenly burst out, startling the bears in the room, which made the rest of the predators nervous.

Shelly Laurenston

#28. Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Charles Dickens

#29. The room blued into view, and I wondered where the night had gone.

Sylvia Plath

#30. It was some time since I had gone to sleep in the same room with a girl. Of course, the room was large and reasonably well-lighted, and the girl had other things than me on her mind.

Ross Macdonald

#31. This"-his gaze roamed the room-"is the life were given, and we lived it. As best as we could, we lived it. But this"-He laid his hand over Aaron's chest and smiled.-"This is the life we made, and it's perfect.

Kary Rader

#32. Just then Warren's breathing, which part of me was listening to with rapt attention, stopped. Adam heard it too, crouching as if there were an enemy in the room. Maybe there was. Death is an enemy, right?

Patricia Briggs

#33. You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.

Billy Koch

#34. He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room.

Patricia Highsmith

#35. When you make music you do it for the right reason: love. Love is the desire of well being, desire to heal the wounded, the person in pain, the person who has problems - to touch the person who needs love. The love inside you manifests through sound, vibration and embraces everyone in the room.

Pepe Romero

#36. Waiting around to be saved is like waiting to die and I have done more of both than anyone else in the room.

Courtney Summers

#37. I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.

Justin Vivian Bond

#38. Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room.

Ian Fleming

#39. It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe."
Anna's jaw actually dropped. For a moment, I wasn't sure if I should laugh or push him out of the room. Way to go, Graves.

Lilith Saintcrow

#40. Pop's leg was across the room when I came downstairs.

Kathryn Miller Haines

#41. Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault.

Jim Butcher

#42. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

Winston Churchill

#43. Kiernan spins around nervously, eyes flicking between the door we just entered and one at the other end of the room. "You forgot to mention the guards. Kind of important, Pru!"
"Why? You've got a gun. And Evie says your friend there is a baby ninja.

Rysa Walker

#44. And as the room grows dark, I wonder at how we humans are born to pain, experience it constantly, and yet never learn the techniques of dodging it. We just learn to cope, to live. And some of us, if we are lucky enough, to thrive, in spite of it all.

Alice J. Wisler

#45. The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.

Jodi Benson

#46. It's a sad day when Myrnin is the safe choice, she thought. Apparently, he thought so, too, because he gave her a long, troubled look before pressing his thumb to a glass plate inside the room and opening the door.

Rachel Caine

#47. I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

Edvard Munch

#48. You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

Jennifer Lopez

#49. The room seemed to have grown darker, as if all the sad light of the cloudy evening had taken refuge on her forehead.

Joseph Conrad

#50. Why aren't you afraid of me?"
Coy looks at me, baffled. "Why would I be afraid of you?"
I shrug, not getting a chance to answer before he continues.
"Until the day you start chomping on my throat without my permission or throwing me across the room for fun, I'll never be afraid of you.

Brandy Nacole

#51. During those restless, shut-up days, I got to know every inch of the room as a prisoner comes to know his cell.

Anonymous

#52. This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper.

Tom Robbins

#53. They were not permitted to so much as knock upon the door to the room in which he thought and wrote about art, but ted hadn't found a way to keep them from prowling outside it, ghostly feral creatures drinking from a pond at moonlight, their bare feet digging in the carpet ...

Jennifer Egan

#54. You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.

Mohsin Hamid

#55. You look at William Powell in My Man Godfrey and he's a butler in that and he's very dapper. He's a very refined gentleman. I liked playing around with that, with the good posture and a style, a panache, and a way of moving about the room.

Evan Peters

#56. My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Rudy Giuliani

#57. We have another confession from Dare Kattalakis. Going once, going twice ... are there any more confessions in the room? Anyone else want to admit to shooting a lion? Didn't think so. (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#58. Thou mutters, Miss Putnam. Speak up."
Like she couldn't hear. She'd hear Chess if Chess ran to the other end of the room, covered her mouth with her hands, and whispered "Fuck you," but she couldn't hear Chess standing four feet away from her.

Stacia Kane

#59. The room flashed brighter still and then gasps filled the room. They were all gathered around Roxy and she was unsure why. She didn't feel any different, Hadn't the spell worked ? Roxy opened her mouth to speak and then she heard it ... ... a purr.

Amanda Turner

#60. If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

Alan Sugar

#61. If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

Kat Graham

#62. She looked at me, her electricity flaring to life - growing more violent, more dangerous, lighting the room like a calzone stuffed with dynamite. Uh-oh ...

Brandon Sanderson

#63. Aside from the fruit basket, the room was as empty as the inside of Dexter on the shelf marked SOUL.

Jeff Lindsay

#64. Thanks," I say, stepping into the room.
Do brothers thank each other?
Probably not.
I should have said something along the lines of, "Took you long enough, asshole."
Hoover, Colleen; Fisher, Tarryn (2015-01-07). Never Never (p. 75). Hoover Ink. Kindle Edition.

Tarryn Fisher

#65. Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.

Margaret Atwood

#66. ...our hostess backed out of the room, grinning vapidly. She had long since forgotten the meaning of a smile, but the physical ability to make the gesture remained. I felt that the grin...would shatter if it were touched and fall to the floor in pieces.

Beryl Markham

#67. You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.

Jimmy Page

#68. Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

Mike Nichols

#69. Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room ... can even bring things to a climax.

Demetri Martin

#70. I remember being 18, and my first boyfriend said to me, "Unless you're in the room, you don't know if it's true." We were talking about gossip.

Winona Ryder

#71. No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.

Aimee Bender

#72. Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Andy Goldsworthy

#73. Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.

E. M. Forster

#74. What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.

Joel Plaskett

#75. It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes to jokes.

Elizabeth Banks

#76. When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam ... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.

Jeff Ross

#77. I'm out of the room in the next instant, like a man wanting breath, after suffocating through the horror of a burrito eating obese man's fart." - Emily Dolt

Nix Banner

#78. Beth," he whispered. "Come back to me."
He brought more of his blood to her.
"Damn it, don't you die!" Candles flared in the room. "I love you, damn you! Goddamn you, don't you let go!

J.R. Ward

#79. None of us know what will make you happy. That is a question you have to ask yourself. But what I can tell you for certain is that you will have to ask yourself and get to a place where the sound of your voice is the clearest voice in the room.

Gemma B. Benton

#80. Oookay, that was seriously confusing, especially the part about the Warrior Prince being a taco stand, I laughed, trying to thaw the icy chill in the room.

Robyn Peterman

#81. I moved to the center of the room, my strappy sandals clacking on the marble floor. "I'm assuming this is where the punishment part comes in," I said. "So do I need to clean all these mirrors, or do I have to, like, stare at myself until I feel shamed or something?

Rachel Hawkins

#82. Other than this, the room was entirely still, as if such a grand clock had stolen even the time it took for a dustmote to float across a sunbeam, needing every minute, every second it could find.

Emma Trevayne

#83. When there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

Ellen Wittlinger

#84. She left the room the way she'd entered it. In silence.

Amanda Gray

#85. Sometimes the smartest thing you can do is realize you're not the smartest one in the room. 08-30-2011

Jan Thomas

#86. I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

Lady Randolph Churchill

#87. You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room
their motions, their looks and their words
and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer.

Lord Chesterfield

#88. All right, Miss Cryptic. What's the new plan, then?"
Glancing around the room, Cinder tipped up her chin. "It starts with kidnapping the groom."
Iko's hand shot into the air.
"Yes, Iko?"
"That is the best idea ever. Count me in.

Marissa Meyer

#89. When I'd first brought it home from the thrift store, I'd planned to keep it in the closet I shared with Summer, But Jordis asked me to hang it in full view of the room because she liked the glitter.

Jennifer Echols

#90. The cloth was wrinkled and twisted from the struggle. His forehead was damp, and he lay his forearm across it and stared across the room at the clock. Its pendulum rotated and gathered momentum only to slow and reverse its course. He watched it for a time and slid out of the bed to dress.

Dave Newell

#91. John!" cried Lady Greystoke, running toward him, "how could I have been mistaken? I-" but the rest of the sentence was lost as Tarzan of the Apes sprang into the room and taking his mate in his arms covered her lips with kisses.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#92. Do you know the greatest gift a parent can give to a child?" she asked, looking around the room. No one answered. "Independence. To allow them go out into the world and make their own decisions, travel their own paths.

Michael Scott

#93. Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

William Ernest Henley

#94. Thus it was quickly decided that Pitry - being young, cheerful, and not in the room at the time - would be the best man for the job.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#95. I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so.

Jerry Lawler

#96. Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.

Tatiana Maslany

#97. Wilhelmina swooned. The Dowager was stunned. Andrew punched Nathaniel again. "I should call you out!" He shouted over Nathaniel's prone form. Elinor fled the room.

Elizabeth Johns

#98. But performing in The Room was, by this point, like drinking the very last dregs of something through a ting straw: It took a lot of effort and you barely tasted it.

Greg Sestero

#99. And at that moment the alligators burst into the room.

Genevieve Cogman

#100. I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.

Karan Johar