77 Dorm Rooms Quotes

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Famous Dorm Rooms Quotes

In the messy world of a college dorm, I made it a point to keep my room neat and tidy. — James Clear

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school. — Barbara Dana

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. — J. D. Salinger

Rooms should be timeless. — Sister Parish

Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama. - Leighton Meester

Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama. — Leighton Meester

College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two. — Andy Stern

I'm a typical college girl; I love to shop and gossip with my roommates about boys and whatnot. — Alicia Sacramone

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in. — Peter Block

I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like. — Evangeline Lilly

The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla. — J. D. Salinger

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it. — Kristen Bell

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. — Hafez

We're sisters, we're roommates, we're all that. - Serena Williams

We're sisters, we're roommates, we're all that. — Serena Williams

Porches are America's lost rooms. - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Porches are America's lost rooms. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Room service? Send up a larger room. - Groucho Marx

Room service? Send up a larger room. — Groucho Marx

Short Dorm Rooms Quotes

  • Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. — Steve Wozniak
  • I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails. — Kate Walsh
  • The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. — A. E. Housman
  • College is a refuge from hasty judgment. — Robert Frost
  • A room is not a room without natural light. — Louis Kahn
  • Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. — Hafez
  • The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress. — Dalton Trumbo
  • Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes. — Andrea Gibson
  • A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. — Shelby Foote
  • I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world. — Maria Sharapova

Dorm Rooms Image Quotes

Dorm rooms quote Every time you subtract negative from your life, you make room for more positive.
Every time you subtract negative from your life, you make room for more positive.

Dormitory Quotes

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench. — Billy Sunday

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. — Spiro T. Agnew

The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class. — William H. Whyte

Dorm rooms quote Dont fill you head with worries, there wont be room for anything else
Dont fill you head with worries, there wont be room for anything else

Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to? — Lenny Bruce

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock. — Ambrose Bierce

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories. — Vito Fossella

Dorm rooms quote The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.
The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. — Stephen Leacock

Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Harry ran upstairs to their dark dormitory. He pulled out the cloak and then his eyes fell on the flute Hagrid had given him for Christmas. He pocketed it to use on Fluffy — he didn’t feel much like singing. — J. K. Rowling

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. — James Tobin

Dorm Quotes

Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm.” There were a few moments of silence. “Sage, I’ve been waiting two months to hear you say those words. You want me to bring a ladder? — Richelle Mead

In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen. — G-Eazy

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. — Steve Spurrier

Dorm rooms quote There is no room in your future for your past to tag along.
There is no room in your future for your past to tag along.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. — Steve Jobs

Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid? — Jamie Zawinski

Zuckerberg wants to take us back to the dorm room where we all know each other. I don't want to, I want to go to the city. — Andrew Keen

Dorm rooms quote Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.

When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels in a popcorn popper in the dorm room. — Mike Huckabee

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open. — Mark Zuckerberg

It's like I'm in a closet in a college dorm room. — Cody Lundin

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate. — Douglas Wilson

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Andy Stern
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More Dorm Rooms Quotes

I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all. — Phil Robertson

I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: college - in your dorm, traveling - in a hotel room, camping - rig up basically nothing, maybe a boat. Whatever it was for you, I bet that, among other things, this gave you a little more freedom, a little more time. — Graham Hill

You're never going to find a guy who's exactly like you - first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room. — Rainbow Rowell

Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy. — Emma Watson

Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges. — Ari Shapiro

I would have people send me shoes and I had 40 pairs and none would fit in the dorm room. People would come by and be like, "Yo, I've been looking for these shoes." I was like, "I'll sell them to you for $300 right now." I'd sell them, save up $4,000 to $5,000, go to the mall and just buy a bunch of new stuff. — Iman Shumpert

On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls’ sports were to blame. Then they cut to a commercial featuring a sexy college coed vacuuming her dorm room in her underwear. — Libba Bray

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book. — Rick Riordan

You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot, live in a coed dorm, have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate! — Jay Leno

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side. — Mark Zuckerberg

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action, — S. I. Hayakawa

You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy. — Boomer Esiason

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place. — Jeff Bezos

If your subject is crime, then you know at least that you're going to have a real story. If your subject is the maturing of a college boy, you may never stumble across a story while you're telling that. But if your story is a college boy dead in his dorm room, you know there's a story in there, someplace. — Donald E. Westlake

Bill Clinton's favorite memory is Hillary leaning down and putting contact paper in the drawers, in the chest of drawers in Chelsea's dorm room at Stanford. Favorite memory. Favorite memory! Out everything, favorite memory. Now, I would love to hear somebody in the media ask Hillary what contact paper is. — Rush Limbaugh

I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all watch "Star Trek: Next Generation." — Naomi Novik

It's incredible to be young and live here and not have to clean up your dorm room. — Penn Dayton Badgley

Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university. It's lost all of its conservatism.... My daughter went there. You know, she had horrible experiences with coed dorms and guys who spent the weekends in the rooms with girls. — Tom DeLay

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something. — Danger Mouse

I wish I wasn't famous. I wish I was still in school So that I could have you in my dorm room, how I'd put it on you — Drake

Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One. "Your sister doesn't." When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians." "Objection," Cath said, reaching for a burrito. — Rainbow Rowell

Oh. Yeah. That does make sense.” Shaylin hesitated. “But I don’t know which dorm room is hers.” “Third floor, number thirty-six. When they shared a brain, they used to say it stood for their chest size. I said it was their combined IQ.” “Of course you did,” Shaylin said. “See, you do understand me!” Aphrodite said with fake enthusiasm. — P. C. Cast

I'm a big believer in first impressions," he finally said. "Tell me what your first thought was when Jason walked into the courtroom." Taylor took a sip of her drink and grinned. This one was easy. "I vowed to hate him forever." Jeremy's brown eyes twinkled at this. "That's exactly what I said nineteen years ago, five minutes after he first walked into our dorm room. — Julie James

The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don't want people to start amping up expectations for an early version of your product. The best entrepreneurship happens in low-stakes environments where no one is paying attention, like Mark Zuckerberg's dorm room at Harvard. — Eric Ries

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