“I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.” MenTwoBookFatherWalksRoomsStudyFieldsProductsFindingsDrawingEndlessShouldersCertaintyGrassAfternoonVolumeBedroomShelvesBladesLandingRainyGreat BookAtticsBlades Of GrassBookcases Author:C. S. Lewis
“The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.” WorldProblemRoomsPrinciplesModernChangedFindingsCrowdsConformModern WorldModern LifeGeographyHerdsAmused Book:Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy
“An intruder broke into Mike Tyson's hotel room in Las Vegas while he was sleeping but got out before Tyson could get to him. I don't know what's scarier. Having someone breaking into your room while you're sleeping or breaking into someone else's room and finding out the guy is Mike Tyson.” KnowsGuySleepRoomsFindingsBrokeHotelMikeVegasLas VegasHotel RoomsTysonYour RoomIntruders Author:Jay Leno
“I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long Have lost their power to please; which when I see them, Raise only now a melancholy wish I were the little trifler once again, Who could be pleas'd so lightly.” LittlesLongI CanRememberLostWishPleasureRoomsFeetYouthFlowerPleaseFindingsRaisesMelancholyToys Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.) Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)
“Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.” ChildrenLittlesMotherSleepRoomsAirSceneFindingsOur ChildrenErrorsFaultsYour ChildrenSunshineSurroundingsConfinementGood NatureScoldingFault Finding Author:Herbert Spencer
“What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!” NightRoomsFindingsTemptationTendernessForbiddenDressingsGownsLurking Author:Wilkie Collins
“Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.” WayHumansRoomsNiceFindingsUniqueCapacityPleasantRestaurantsStaffScrewsGood FoodHuman Capacity Author:Jay Rayner
“Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story.” WritingLittlesEndsStoriesLightDarkRoomsWalkingFindingsShort StoryDark Room Author:Dan Chaon
“The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBodyRoomsWifeFindingsOriginalsTalesFairyFairy TaleCastles Author:Alice Hoffman