Room Quotes - page 13

I'll distract them,” Carter said. "You search. The Trophy room is through there.” "Carter!” But the fool ran off to protect me. I hate when he does that. (Rick Riordan)
Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room. View quote
Andrew Weil
Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light. View quote
Andrew Weil
I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big. View quote
Ricardo Semler
Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one. View quote
Rob Sheffield
There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances. 'Did he bite you?' said Father. 'No,' said Frances. 'Did he scratch you?' said Mother. 'No,' said Frances. 'Then he is a friendly tiger,' said Father. 'He will not hurt you. Go back to sleep. View quote
Russell Hoban
If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy. View quote
Simon Van Booy
Dancing - however you do it, even if it's in your living room - is a great workout. View quote
Ciara
Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals. View quote
Cindy Crawford
I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore. View quote
Sophia Bush
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier. (Stacy Schiff)
Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another. View quote
Susanna Clarke
The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change. View quote
T. Harv Eker
You look in my room and it looks neat enough but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess! View quote
Tamera Mowry
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies. View quote
Tim Burton
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi
I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room. View quote
Phyllis Diller
He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body... unfortunately he had run out of room. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse. (Charles Williams)
I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers. View quote
Charlaine Harris