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Letter "R" » rooms
«The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.»
«Squares as small and complete and as carefully furnished as rooms.»
«Republicans sleep in twin beds - some even in separate rooms. That is why there are more Democrats.»
Author: Will Stanton
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
beds, Republicans, rooms, sleep in, twin
«These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.»
«There are some among us who live in rooms of experience we can never enter»
«The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.»
«Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Television,
War
| Keywords:
battlefields, brutalities, brutality, living room, rooms, Vietnam, Vietnam War
«Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself, how it's strange that some rooms are like cages, Sonny's yearbook from high school is down from the shelf and he idoly thumbs through the pages. Some have died, some have fled from themselves, or struggled from here to get there. Sonny wonders beyond his interior walls, runs his hands through his thining brown hair.»
«Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.»
Author: Phyllis McGinley
| About:
Sisters
| Keywords:
down the stairs, drying, importunate, locked, rooms, shoulders, sisters, stair, telephone, The Mirror
«The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.»
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