Window Quotes
2236 quotes by 1591 authors
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in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel…
— Adrienne Rich
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate…
— Bill Watterson
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You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the…
— Neil Gaiman
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What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a…
— James Wright
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Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.
— Susanna Kaysen
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Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.
— Joe Hill
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Keep passing the open windows.
— John Irving
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The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train...
— Tom Waits
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Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away,…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.
— Jim Carroll
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He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere…
— Thomas Pynchon
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hanging out the window, Amber blew her a kiss. a lump the size of a fist clogged Heather's throat, while a breeze from th sea…
— Lurlene McDaniel
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And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend.…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story?…
— Diane Setterfield
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look…
— E. M. Forster
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Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit…
— Ray Bradbury
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There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of…
— Haruki Murakami
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Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.
— Neal Stephenson
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