Quotes of: Emergency-room Keyword

He was in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was a writer, and tonight was the Day of the Dead ceremony. He was in a little room on the second floor of a hotel, a room with wide windows and a balcony that overlooked the plaza where the children ran and yelled ea...

Ray Bradbury

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s what part of it means to be alive. But inside our heads — at least that’s where I imagine it — there’s ...

Kafka on the Shore

John: Dr. Gordon, this is your wake-up call. Everyday of your working life you have given people the news that they're gonna die soon. Now *you* will be the cause of death. Your aim in this game is to kill Adam. You have until six on the clock to do ...

Saw

[Wonka walks down the hall which gets shorter as it goes on in the skewed perspective room] Charlie Bucket: Hey, the room is getting smaller. Mrs. Teevee: No, it's not. *He's* getting *bigger*! Mr. Salt: He's at it again! Mike Teevee: Where's the cho...

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this w...

Ursula K. Le Guin

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

Critique of Pure Reason

...his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.

Downtown Owl

It was all her doing. She had cried wolf and the wolf had come.

The Dynamite Room

Awesome . . .” Jared spoke up from the other side of the room. “Ember, the Otherworld's wonder mutt.

Fire in the Darkness

C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!

Ghost World

It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit.

The Book of Madness and Cures

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

Brown Girl in the Ring

So, to sum up my room-clearing generalizations, men are in comedy to break rules.

Bossypants

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -

Book of Sketches

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

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Robert Smithson

You’re used to being the smartest guy in the room. Solitary confinement will do that.

$3.33

It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

A History of Reading

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

Horns

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

Jacob's Room