Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an… — Eva Hart Copy Share Image
The whitewashing of windows can provide very effective protection against fire resulting from the heat-flash from nuclear explosions. — William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw Copy Share Image
What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Distraction and procrastination come in a variety of flavors... when I'm distracted and I walk over and stare out the window, it's… — Linda Stone Copy Share Image
I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff -… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground. — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
The only way to tell my Dad something is to write it on a note, and tie it to a brick, and… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
All those girls who were mean to me[in high school], I pay them back by going through the drive-through window and asking… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image