Window Quotes
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I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
Nic Pizzolatto
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Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.
Stella Benson
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It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.
Geraldine Chaplin
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But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
Stevie Smith
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The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.
William Butler Yeats
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You know, you can try and plan filmin as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.
Michael B. Jordan
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
Arthur Rimbaud
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The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life.
Willard Gaylin
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I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.
Sebastian Horsley
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Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window and looking outside - small things like that can be absolutely huge.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon
Vladimir Nabokov
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Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes!
Louise Rennison
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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?
Virginia Woolf
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No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.
Michael Parkinson
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The whitewashing of windows can provide very effective protection against fire resulting from the heat-flash from nuclear explosions.
William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
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Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.
Kay WalkingStick
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One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.
Daniil Kharms
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I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.
William Butler Yeats
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I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan.
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us. That's what I find absolutely addictive and seductive.
Harry Shearer
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In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry.
Ray Dandridge
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A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
Saul Leiter