And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: they rent out my room.

-Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg
Quoted in Eric Lax Woody  Allen and His Comedy (1975).

Perdre Mais perdre vraiment Pour laisser place a'   la trouvaille Perdre La vie pour trouver laVictoire. To lose But really to lose And make room for discovery To lose Life so as to discover Victory.

-Kostrowitzki
  Calligrammes,'Toujours'.

There is room in the west for wolves.

-Babbitt, Bruce Edward
  Statement atYellowstone National Park in Wyoming,12 Jan, to the House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee, on the controversial restoration of wildlife.

Is there any room at your head, Sanders? Is there any room at your feet? Or any room at your twa sides, Where fain, fain I would sleep? There is nae room at my head, Margaret, There is nae room at my feet; My bed it is the cold, cold grave; Among the hungry worms I sleep.

-Ballads
'Clerk Sanders'.

There is no event so commonplace but that God is present in it, alwayshiddenly, alwaysleaving you roomto recognize him or not to recognize him† Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the heavenlyand hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

-Buechner, (Carl) Frederick
  Now and Then.

If I were a Mexican, I would tell you,'Have you not enough room in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and hospitable graves.'

-Corwin,Thomas
  Speech to the Senate against the  American^Mexican War,11 Feb.

My Minister's room is like a padded cell, and in certain ways I am like a person who is suddenly certified a lunatic and put safely into this great, vast room, cut off from real life.Of course they don't behave quite like nurses, because the Civil Service is profoundly deferentialö'Yes, Minister! No, Minister! If you wish it, Minister!'

-Crossman, Richard Howard Stafford
  The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, vol.1 (1975), 22 Oct.

Mrs Crupp had indignantlyassured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but, as Mr Dick justly observed to me† 'You know,Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore, what does that signify to me!'

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^50  David Copperfield, ch.35.

Since I am coming to that holy room Where, withThy choir of saints forevermore, I shall be madeThy Music, as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think now before.

-Donne,John
c.1623  'Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness'.

In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  The Mill on the Floss, bk.4, ch.3.

For I have known them all already, known them allö Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The Love Song of  J  Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917).

When lovely woman stoops to follyand Paces about her room again, alone, She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone. See Goldsmith 361:47.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.3,'The Fire Sermon'.

He must teach himself that the basest of all things isto be afraid and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop foranything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomedölove and honour and pityand compassion and sacrifice.

-Faulkner,William Harrison
  Nobel prize acceptance speech.

A Room with aView.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
   Title of novel.

Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.

-Graham, Harry
  Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes,'Tender- Heartedness'.

   The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

-Grenfell, Sir Wilfred
  A Labrador Logbook.

I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat.

-Grossmith, George
  The Diary of a Nobody (with Weedon Grossmith), ch.7.

Um esta¤   sempre no escuro, so¤   no u¤ ltimo derradeiro e¤   que clareiam a sala. Oneisalwaysinthedark, and it isonlyatthelast moment that they turn on the lights in the room.

-Guimara‹  es Rosa,Joa‹  o
  Grande Serta‹  o: Vere¤  das (translated as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands,1963).

Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.

-Holland, Henry Scott
 Sermon, Whit Sunday.

The escalator from the Social Predestination Room† One circuit of the cellar at ground level, one on the first gallery, half on the second, and on the two hundred and sixty-seventh morning, daylight in the Decanting Room. Independent existenceöso called.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  Brave New World, ch.1.