Window Quotes
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When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.
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I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.
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Please leave the window open.
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Woman is the window through which we see the world.
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A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.
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We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest.
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Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.
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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
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It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.
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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.
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Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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At a rear window I hear the heart-rendering cries of my captive kind, plus a lot of yammering from the idiotic dogs, who will raise about the same ruckus for a simple rabies shot as they would for the end of the world.
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There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.
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We have not had a window of opportunity to burn. If we lit it now, I'm not sure we could hold it even with a lot of people.
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If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
