"First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library."
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"if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready."
"The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room."
"Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room."
"At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older."
"There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger"
"We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy."
"In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room."
"The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent"
"which pisses her off and makes her scream and i look around my room and miss me."
"But even with my minimal amount of fame, there are certain perks. Recently, I was at a movie premier, and at the party after the movie, Meryl Streep was loose, walking around the room like a normal person. Absolutely nothing was preventing me from lunging toward her and shrieking "Dingoes ate my baby! Dingoes ate my baby!"
"If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive."
"We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one."
"There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do."
"Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room."
"When we are in fear, there is no room for love, and when we are in love, there is no room for fear."
"Always take an extra quarter to the laundry room."
"Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it."
"On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I."
"Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room."