Shutters Quotes
71 Shutters quotes by 64 unique authors
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He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles…
— Matt Taibbi
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I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.
— Christopher Isherwood
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In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared.…
— Nicole Krauss
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When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by…
— Douglas Coupland
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I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in…
— Christopher Isherwood
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Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need…
— Frances Mayes
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Tonight. After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate. And a a lot of people do, out of relief that their children have been spared…
— Suzanne Collins
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Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at…
— Pittacus Lore
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Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people.…
— George R. R. Martin
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...what good would it do to shutter your windows, never dream of rainbows or find hope in promises? Why choose to walk away rather than…
— Ellen Hopkins
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How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With…
— Robert Browning
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Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a tentative beam of…
— Ellen Hopkins
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And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall?…
— Anne Rice
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second,…
— Lauren Oliver
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I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window,…
— George R. R. Martin
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My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages.…
— Poppy Delevingne
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I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all…
— Sebastian Horsley
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They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the…
— Walter Crane
Who Wrote These Shutters Quotes
64 authors contributed a total of 71 Shutters Quotes, led by these top contributors: