Window Quotes

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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces… — Mary Oliver
We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way… — Ani DiFranco
I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright. — Millard Kaufman
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp… — Gustave Flaubert
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God… — Cormac McCarthy
Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your… — Angela Carter
But the grind has begun. The windows donâ€™t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide… — Dave Eggers
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. — William Shakespeare
Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where… — Margaret Atwood
O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul. — Spencer W. Kimball
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.… — Mark Twain
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and… — Audrey Niffenegger
There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at… — Elizabeth Berg
Ah, Father! Thatâ€™s words and only words! Forgive! If heâ€™d not been run over, heâ€™d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come,… — Raymond Carver
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an… — William Faulkner
Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and… — Joseph Heller
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,… — Virginia Woolf
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make… — Jean Cocteau

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