Window Quotes

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She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;… — Virginia Woolf
Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,… — Oscar Wilde
It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether… — Thomas Hobbes
They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they… — Kurt Vonnegut
... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail,… — Sara Gruen
Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life — Willard Gaylin
Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being. — Frances Mayes
Jesus is both a mirror to our humanity and a window to divinity, a window revealing as much of God as is given mortal eyes… — William Sloane Coffin
I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were crystal blue, the… — Charles Duke
I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say,… — Al McGuire
DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be… — Thurston Moore
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind… — Mark Rothko
I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. — Bela Lugosi
My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing. — Gloria Swanson
I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the… — Isaac Asimov

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