Window Quotes
2236 quotes by 1591 authors
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The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger. Want a private party?" she asked. Not tonight," Ranger…
— Janet Evanovich
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Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the…
— Khalil Gibran
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
— George Orwell
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I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.
— Miranda July
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The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than…
— Franz Kafka
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She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She…
— Rachel Klein
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The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk,…
— Jack Kerouac
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The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had…
— Marian Keyes
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Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them…
— Margaret Atwood
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The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain…
— Jean Baudrillard
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She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers…
— Henry Miller
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How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or…
— James Lee Burke
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A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest.…
— Arundhati Roy
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[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where…
— Steve Toltz
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I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want…
— Ilona Andrews
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The window was still open.†Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know. Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy…
— Rachel Caine
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