Windowpane Quotes
23 quotes by 19 authors
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The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and…
— Roland Barthes
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How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands,…
— Rene Char
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With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small…
— Andrew Wyeth
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Fate, Chance, God’s Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens,…
— Robert Breault
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Good writing is like a windowpane.
— George Orwell
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
— George Orwell
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Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
— Grace Paley
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So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights.…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane...
— Vladimir Nabokov
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In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to…
— Libba Bray
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.
— Libba Bray
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They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.
— Philip K. Dick
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While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
— Billy Collins
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how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple…
— Richard Siken
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May the sun always shine on your windowpane; May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain; May the hand of a friend always be…
— Irish Blessing
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May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm…
— Blessing Irish
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May you always have work for your hands to do. May your pockets hold always a coin or two. May the sun shine bright on…
— Irish Blessings
Who Wrote These Windowpane Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 23 Windowpane Quotes as follows: