Window Quotes
2236 quotes by 1591 authors
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I woke to find every window open I woke to find the heavy door ajar And I walked outside and stood upon the hilltop And…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of…
— Charles Dickens
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When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What…
— Charles Dickens
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I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing…
— Tom Baker
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A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the…
— Alexander Smith
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A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself…
— Bertrand Russell
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Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of…
— Wilferd Peterson
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The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are". She looked back out the window. "It was that…
— Chris Crutcher
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Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an…
— Milan Kundera
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Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead,…
— Amos Oz
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There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days,…
— Anne Rice
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You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know…
— Terry Pratchett
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...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes…
— Jack Kerouac
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We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we…
— Adam Gopnik
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the…
— John Galsworthy
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The financial crisis just made the hole deeper, which is why our stimulus needs to be both big and smart, both financially and educationally stimulating.…
— Thomas Friedman
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The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we…
— Neil Armstrong
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Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is…
— Michael Ondaatje
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The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their…
— Ray Bradbury
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