Room By Emma Donoghue Setting Quotes & Sayings

Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love. — Joan Collins

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying. — Samuel Johnson

You know a school is run by stuck-up sons of bitches when it doesn't even have a bike rack. — Francesca Zappia

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God. — Thomas Browne

Laughing, he'd flung dense clouds of earth and stone skyward to blind them. — Steven Erikson

This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since ...
I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies. — Wendell Berry

No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism ." ... The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut ... — William Ralph Inge

Once I've accepted a role, I'll let my parents and my sisters read it because they find it entertaining. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

When I'm playing, I feel like I have control over something. I feel like I have the power to change things. I feel more real out there than I do anywhere else. The court doesn't care what my name is or where I come from or where I'll be tomorrow. It lets me exist. — Nora Sakavic

When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill. — D.H. Lawrence

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded. — Frank Herbert

I wish that I was looking into your eyes — Katy Perry

There is a difference between image and reputation. Image is nice. Reputation is developed over an entire career. Reputation is what I'm searching for. — Alex Rodriguez