Quotes of: Hotel-rooms Keyword

I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.

Al Jolson

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

Arthur Lowe

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Al Stewart

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

Abraham Zapruder

We have many Lisas, Marks, Dennys, Johnnys, and other characters from 'The Room' in America and in the entire world.

Tommy Wiseau

If you aren't living on the edge you're taking up too much room. Anon.

Love

Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.

Love

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

Vint Cerf

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

Woody Allen

Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.

Adam Rapp

I work extremely hard in the weight room, and also on the court to get better and make sure I keep my body in shape.

Dwight Howard

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

Jeffrey Eugenides

The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to 'The Women's Room.'

Catherine Jinks

My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children d...

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

At last I see it, I feel it; I penetrate to the predestinated purpose of my life. I am content. Others may have loftier parts to enact; but my mission in this world, Bartleby, is to furnish you with office-room for such period as you may see fit to r...

Bartleby, the Scrivener

There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysteriou...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in 's of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my beli...

A Room of One's Own

Life for both sexes--and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement--is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for c...

A Room of One's Own

I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses and discarded photographs of women. Gradually, her work became more abstract, and in her last exhibition, her paintin...

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can...

Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are ...

Through The Magic Door