"Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched."
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"I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time."
"The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us."
"I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time."
"My home is a happy place to be. I bless everyone who enters, myself included. Pleasant experiences fill every room."
"I'm kind of a nerd in that I get really excited about things... I love anticipating if they're going to like their rooms or not."
"There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know."
"But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman."
"I do love the Waldorf-Astoria, though. You know, I hear that from the doorstep you can see all the way to the Russian tea room."
"Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room."
"You have to know what you're shooting. Don't just make your movie in the editing room and just get everything you can on the day."
"I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension."
"Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art."
"We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms."
"You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece."
"Clap your hands if you feel like a room without a roof"
"Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire."
"There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because she has credentials of thirty-years standing."
"Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power."
"A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room."