Window Quotes · Page 20

“I’d never thrown myself through a window before, but I knew what to do in theory. The answer is: don’t do it.”

— Stephen Osborne

What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.

— Nora Roberts

If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in.

— Behdad Sami

Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Tennis is a small window. You're not going to have unlimited chances, unlimited opportunities. You can't waste time.

— Nick Kyrgios

Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.

— Katherine Catmull

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

— Ellsworth Kelly

“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.”

— Steve Aylett

Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made…

— Charles M. Schulz

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write,…

— Charles Dickens

I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I…

— Susan Sullivan

When you have these van tours, you drive six hours with the doors closed and windows rolled up. You pull into the…

— Ben Sollee

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a…

— Susan Orlean

Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock…

— Mila Kunis

What I am already dreaming about is the roar of the take-off, followed by the absolute silence as we go into orbit,…

— Wally Funk

Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared…

— William Ellery Channing

So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And…

— Annie Dillard

If I make my window ten days for stand-up, the conclusion is that I failed and that I'm not good at stand-up.…

— Demetri Martin

The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the…

— Charles Dickens

I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking "This is the end of solitude…

— Dani Shapiro

Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are…

— Anonymous

I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only…

— Jerry Spinelli

I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing…

— Robert Fripp

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

— Lindsay Ellingson

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

— Augusten Burroughs

Slim Shady: Hotter then a set of twin babies In a Mercedes Benz, with the windows up When the temp goes up…

— Eminem

Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.

— Sarah Hanson-Young

The most important part of vehicle maintenance is clean windows, so if you are broken down you will enjoy the beauty of…

— Dan Eldon

You try getting through the Hollows traffic with a stoned redhead hanging out the window shouting, 'I'm king of the world!' ~Lee

— Kim Harrison

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

— Enid Nemy

To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

— Grace Metalious

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

— Richard Louv

You can be watching the greatest film in the world, and if you hear your neighbor getting into a fight, you're at…

— Ricky Gervais

One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.

— Daniil Kharms

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

— Joe Perry

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

— Ani DiFranco

TV is our window on the world. It's a powerful medium for great stories that become part of our very, very personal…

— Nancy Dubuc

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.

— Thomas Merton